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The Great Nevka or Bolshaya Nevka () is an arm of the
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- ...
that begins about below the
Liteyny Bridge The Liteyny Bridge () is the second permanent bridge across the Neva river in Saint Petersburg, Russia.Novikov (1991), p. 300 It connects Liteyny Prospekt with Vyborgsky district. The bridge's length is 396 meters, the width is 34 meters. At the ...
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Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the List of cities and towns in Russia by population, second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the Neva, River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland ...
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Attractions

* Bridges ** Samson Bridge **
Grenadiers Bridge A grenadier ( , ; derived from the word ''hand grenade, grenade'') was historically an assault-specialist soldier who threw Grenade, hand grenades in siege operation battles. The distinct combat function of the grenadier was established in the ...
** Kantemirovsky Bridge ** Ushakovsky Bridge **
3rd Yelagin Bridge Third or 3rd may refer to: Numbers * 3rd, the ordinal form of the cardinal number 3 * , a fraction of one third * 1⁄60 of a ''second'', i.e., the third in a series of fractional parts in a sexagesimal number system Places * 3rd Street (dis ...
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Saint Petersburg TV Tower Saint Petersburg Television Tower is a Russian steel lattice tower, lattice television tower in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Being the first dedicated television tower in the Soviet Union, the Saint Petersburg TV Tower is utilized for transmitting ...
* Russian cruiser ''Aurora'' * Lopukhinsky Garden *
Kamenny Island Palace Kamenny Island Palace (Каменноостровский дворец) is a former imperial palace on the south-western promontory of Kamenny Island in St. Petersburg. The Neoclassical architecture, Neoclassical edifice was commissioned in the ...
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Maritime Victory Park Maritime Victory Park () is a municipal park on Krestovsky Island in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It was opened in 1945 to commemorate the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 Septemb ...
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Saint Petersburg Botanical Garden The main Saint Petersburg Botanical Garden, officially known as the Russian Academy of Sciences Vladimir Komarov Botanical Institute's Botanical Garden of Peter the Great (); since 1823 Emperor's Botanical Garden "Императорский Б ...
* Monument to Alfred Nobel


See also

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List of bridges in Saint Petersburg There are more than 400 bridges in the city limits of Saint Petersburg, Russia. This is a partial list of the most famous ones. Peter the Great was designing the city as another Amsterdam and Venice, with canals instead of streets and citizens sk ...


References

Rivers of Saint Petersburg Distributaries of the Neva {{Russia-river-stub