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River Neva (Нева́) is 74 km long river flowing from Lake Ladoga (Ладожское Озеро - Ladozhskoye Ozero) through the Carelian Isthmus (Карельский Перешеек - Karelskii Peresheyek) to the Gulf of Finland (Финский Залив - Finskii Zaliv) at the city of Saint Petersburg (Санкт Петербург - Sankt Peterburg) in Russia. The Russian Grigori Rasputin was killed when he drowned in this river in 1916. During the 16th century the mouth of the Neva river was the site of the Swedish fortress Nyen. The Peter-and-Paul Fortress (Петропавловская Крепость - Petropavlovskaya Krepost'), built in 1703 as the first building of Saint Petersburg, stands on Hare Island (Зайчии Остров - Zaichii Ostrov) on the bank of the river Neva.
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