Editing Neva (section)

== Attractions ==
{{see also|Saint Petersburg}}

Whereas most tourist attractions of Neva are located within St. Petersburg, there are several historical places upstream, in the Leningrad Oblast. They include the fortress [[Shlisselburg|Oreshek]], which was built in 1323 on the Orekhovy Island at the source of Neva River, south-west of the Petrokrepost Bay, near the city of [[Shlisselburg]]. The waterfront of Schlisselburg has a monument of Peter I.<ref name=old>[http://www.map.infoflot.ru/region_europe/sever_zapad/ladoga/channel/old_new_ladoga/old_new_ladoga.htm Староладожский и Новоладожский каналы] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091215152057/http://www.map.infoflot.ru/region_europe/sever_zapad/ladoga/channel/old_new_ladoga/old_new_ladoga.htm |date=15 December 2009 }}. infoflot.ru (in Russian)</ref> In the city, there are Blagoveshchensky Cathedral (1764–95) and a still functioning Orthodox church of St. Nicholas, built in 1739. On the river bank stands the Church of the Intercession. Raised in 2007, it is a wooden replica of a historical church which stood on the southern shore of Lake Onega. That church was constructed in 1708 and it burned down in 1963. It is believed to be the forerunner of the famous [[Kizhi Pogost]].<ref name=un>[http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0009/000929/092980eo.pdf Ethnographic and open-air museums] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180928182224/http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0009/000929/092980eo.pdf |date=28 September 2018 }}, UNESCO, pp. 170–173</ref><ref>[http://www.bogoslovka.ru/index.php Church of the Intercession] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110130042516/http://www.bogoslovka.ru/index.php |date=30 January 2011 }}. Bogoslovka.ru (in Russian). Retrieved on 2013-07-13.</ref>

[[Ladoga Canal|Old Ladoga Canal]], built in the first half of the 18th century, is a water transport route along the shore of Lake Ladoga which is connecting the River Volkhov and Neva.<ref name=old/> Some of its historical structures are preserved, such as a four-chamber granite sluice (1836) and a bridge (1832).

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File:Bolshaya Neva.jpg|The Neva River in a nineteenth-century painting
File:Sunset over Neva river.jpg|Sunset over an ice-covered Neva River
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