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Svir
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thumb|295px|The catchment area of River Svir and its main tributaries
Key facts
- River.name
- Svir
- River.image
- Svir.jpg
- River.image_caption
- Banks of the Svir
- River.mapframe
- yes
- River.source1_location
- Lake Onega
- River.mouth
- Lake Ladoga
- River.subdivision_type1
- Country
- River.subdivision_name1
- Russia
- River.length_km
- 224
- River.basin_size_km2
- 84400
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- river
- Country
- Russia
- Located in
- Leningrad Oblast
- Continent
- Europe
- Image
- Russland fluss Swir 200608020007.jpg
- Length
- 224
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- discharge
- 790
- Commons category
- Svir River
- mouth of the watercourse
- Lake Ladoga
- category for the water basin
- Category:Svir Basin
- lake on watercourse
- Lake Onega
- watershed area
- 84400
- origin of the watercourse
- Lake Onega
- described by source
- The Nuttall Encyclopædia
- inflows
- Onega Canal
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
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- References
thumb|295px|The catchment area of River Svir and its main tributaries
The Svir (; ; Karelian and Finnish: ) is a river in Podporozhsky, Lodeynopolsky, and Volkhovsky districts in the north-east of Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It flows westwards from Lake Onega to Lake Ladoga, thus connecting the two largest lakes of Europe. It is the largest river flowing into Lake Ladoga. The length of the Svir is , whereas the area of its drainage basin is . The towns of Podporozhye and Lodeynoye Pole, as well as urban-type settlements Voznesenye, Nikolsky, Vazhiny, and Svirstroy are located at the banks of the Svir.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Svir” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Gallery (4)
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3 mapped locations