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Encyclopedia > Onega

Lake Onega (also known as Onego, Onezhskoe ozero (from Russian, Онежское озеро), and Onezhskoe lake, Finnish: Ääninen or Äänisjärvi) is a lake in the Russian Federation. Its surface is 9,894 km², its volume is 280 km³, its maximum depth is 120 m. It has 1369 islands with the total area of 250 km². It is fed by 58 rivers, the main of them are Shuya, Suna, Vodla, Vytegra. It is the second largest lake in Europe. To help compare orders of magnitude of different geographical regions, we list here areas between 1,000 km² and 10,000 km². See also areas of other orders of magnitude. ... To help compare different orders of magnitude this page lists lengths between 100 m and 1 km. ... To help compare different orders of magnitude and geographical regions, we list here areas between 100 km² and 1000 km². See also areas of other orders of magnitude. ... World map showing location of Europe A satellite composite image of Europe Europe is geologically and geographically a peninsula, forming the westernmost part of Eurasia. ...


Petrozavodsk, the capital of the Republic of Karelia, is situated on the Western shore of Lake Onega. The republic surrounds Lake Onega in West, North and East. In the South it borders the Leningrad Oblast and Vologda Oblast of Russia. Petrozavodsk (Петрозаво́дск) or Petroskoi (in Karelian/Finnish) is the capital of the Russian Republic of Karelia, with a population of 282,900. ... For other uses of Karelia, see Karelia (disambiguation). ... Leningrad Oblast (Russian: Ленингра́дская о́бласть; tr. ... Categories: Stub | Oblasts of Russia ...


The UNESCO World Heritage site of Kizhi pogost lies on one of the islands in the Kizhi archipelago in the Northern part of the lake. Two magnificent 18th century churches are the centerpieces of this open-air museum of Northern Russian wooden architecture. UNESCO logo The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, commonly known as UNESCO, is a specialized agency of the United Nations system established in 1946. ... Kizhi is an island on Onego lake (Karelia, Russia) with a beautiful ensemble of wooden churches, chapels and houses. ... (17th century - 18th century - 19th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 18th century refers to the century that lasted from 1701 through 1800. ...


River Svir, that marks the southern boundary of Karelia, runs from the southern shore of Lake Onega to Lake Ladoga, and continues in the Neva to the Gulf of Finland. Categories: Russia geography stubs | Russian rivers | Karelia ... Map showing the parts Karelia is traditionally divided into. ... Map of Scandinavia Lake Ladoga (Russian: Ладожское озеро, Finnish: Laatokka) is the largest lake in Europe, located in Karelia and Leningrad Oblast in northwestern Russia (since WWII), near the border to Finland. ... Нева Length 74 km Elevation of the source 4 m Average discharge 2,600 m³/s Area watershed 282,000 km² Origin Lake Ladoga Mouth Gulf of Finland Basin countries Russia River Neva (Нева́) is a 74 km long Russian river flowing from the Lake Ladoga (Ладожское Озеро - Ladozhskoye Ozero... The Baltic Sea The Gulf of Finland is an arm of the Baltic Sea that extends between Finland (to the north) and Estonia (to the south) all the way to the city of Saint Petersburg in Russia, where the river Neva drains into it. ...


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About Onega Bureau (573 words)
Onega R&D Technological Bureau being now the Federal State Unitary Enterprise was established on the first of January 1975 on the basis of technical services of Zvezdochka Shipyard to solve the problems concerning the overhaul of the Nuclear Powered Submarines of the second generation and the expansion of the Shiprepair production capacity.
From the moment of the enterprise establishment the engineers of Onega carried out a lot of research and development works for creation of NPS repair and modernization procedures as well as technological rigging for qualitative performance of the overhaul on a high technological level and reduction of the overhaul cost and duration.
Onega participates in the overhaul of the Indian Navy diesel–electric Submarines at Zvezdochka Shiprepair yard.
Onega - LoveToKnow 1911 (649 words)
To the south-east are sedimentary Devonian rocks, and the general level of the coast is broken by Mount Andoma and Cape Petropavlovskiy (160 ft. above the lake); to the south-west a quartz sandstone (used as a building and monumental stone in St Petersburg) forms a fairly bold rim.
The water is at its lowest level in the beginning of March; by June it has risen 2 ft. A considerable population is scattered along the shores of the lake, mainly occupied in the timber trade, fisheries and mining industries.
Salmon, palya (a kind of trout), burbot, pike, perchpike and perch are among the fish caught in the lake.
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