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River Izhora , in English also known as River Inger , is the main tributary to River Neva on its run through Ingria in western-most Russia from Lake Ladoga to Gulf of Finland . The small town Ust-Izhora ("mouth of Izhora") is situated at the confluence of Izhora and Neva, halfway between Saint Petersburg and Schlisselburg . The river is noted as the furthest Swedish forces ever reached between the Viking Age and the Time of Troubles .
kilometers . The river draws its water mainly from natural groundwater springs, snow melt, and rain water. The river has a sustainable underground water supply in both summer and winter, never drying up or freezing through.
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Ust-Izhora: Historical, political, and ecological connectivity at a river junction (1273 words)
The Izhorans, a Finno-Ugric tribe that inhabited the area around the Izhora River a millennium ago, were doubtless drawn here for that reason. The mouth of the Izhora River is also an important spot along the Neva in terms of the key factors of variability and connectivity. In the twentieth century the Izhora basin became an important industrial area, with its easy water access to the Baltic port.
TURAN - INGRIA-IZHORIA (650 words)
The Izhora settled along the Neva and Izhora rivers and in the southern part of the Karelian Isthmus possibly as early as the end of the 10th c . Izhora land on the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland and Karelian Isthmus), the Izhoras left their territory. The decline in the Izhora population was caused primarily by assimilation.
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