River Svir
Banks of the Svir River
Origin	Lake Onega
Mouth	Lake Ladoga
Basin countries	Russia
Length	224 km (139 mi)
Source elevation	32 m (105 ft)
Avg. discharge	790 m³/s (27,903 ft³/s)
Watershed area	83,200 km² (32,124 mi²)

The river Svir (Свирь, Finnish: Syväri) connects Lake Onega with Lake Ladoga in Russia, thus connecting the two largest lakes of Europe, and is considered the southern border of East Karelia. The river flows past the Alexander-Svirsky Monastery, which used to house one of the most infamous gulags. Image File history File links Svir. ... Lake Onega (also known as Onego, Onezhskoe ozero (from Russian, Онежское озеро), and Onezhskoe lake) is a lake in the Russian Federation. ... 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. ... A watershed is a region of land where water flows into a specified body of water, such as a river, lake, sea, or ocean. ... The source of a river or stream may be a lake, a spring, or a collection of headwaters. ... In hydrology, the discharge of a river is the volume of water transported by it in a certain amount of time. ... A watershed is a region of land where water flows into a specified body of water, such as a river, lake, sea, or ocean. ... Lake Onega (also known as Onego, Onezhskoe ozero (from Russian, Онежское озеро), and Onezhskoe lake) is a lake in the Russian Federation. ... 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. ... East Karelia and West Karelia with borders of 1939 and 1940/1947. ... 19th-century view of both Svirsky monasteries. ... GULAG (Russian: Glavonoye Upravleniye Lagerey, Main Camp Administration) was the branch of the Soviet secret police (the NKVD and later on the KGB) that dealt with concentration camps. ...