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The Great Neva or Bolshaya Neva () is the largest armlet of the river
The Great Neva or Bolshaya Neva () is the largest armlet of the river Neva
The Neva ( , ; , ) is a river in northwestern Russia flowing from Lake Ladoga through the western part of Leningrad Oblast (historical region of Ingria) to the Neva Bay of the Gulf of Finland. Despite its modest length of , it is the fourth- ...
. It starts near the Spit of Vasilievsky Island
Vasilyevsky Island (, Vasilyevsky Ostrov, V.O.) is an island in St. Petersburg, Russia, bordered by the Bolshaya Neva and Malaya Neva Rivers (in the delta of the Neva River) in the south and northeast, and by Neva Bay of the Gulf of Finl ...
(easternmost tip of the island).
The Great Neva is long; the width is from and the depth up to . Its tributaries are Fontanka
The Fontanka (), a left branch of the river Neva, flows through the whole of Central Saint Petersburg, Russia – from the Summer Garden to . It is long, with a width up to , and a depth up to . The Moyka River forms a right-bank branch ...
, Moyka and Novo-Admiralteysky Canal.
There are two bridges across Great Neva: Palace Bridge
Palace Bridge (, ''Dvortsoviy Most''), a road- and foot-traffic bascule bridge, spans the Neva River in Saint Petersburg between Palace Square and Vasilievsky Island. Like every other Neva bridge (except for Big Obukhovsky Bridge), it is dr ...
and Blagoveshchensky Bridge.
References
Rivers of Saint Petersburg Distributaries of the Neva {{Russia-river-stub