The Great Neva or Bolshaya Neva () is the largest armlet of the river
Neva
The Neva (russian: Нева́, ) is a river in northwestern Russia flowing from Lake Ladoga through the western part of Leningrad Oblast (historical region of Ingria) to the Neva Bay of the Gulf of Finland. Despite its modest length of , ...
. It starts near the
Spit of
Vasilievsky Island
Vasilyevsky Island (russian: Васи́льевский о́стров, Vasilyevsky Ostrov, V.O.) is an island in St. Petersburg, Russia, bordered by the Bolshaya Neva and Malaya Neva Rivers (in the delta of the Neva River) in the south ...
(easternmost tip of the island).
The Great Neva is long; the width is from and the depth up to .
Its tributaries are
Fontanka,
Moyka and
Novo-Admiralteysky Canal.
There are two bridges across Great Neva:
Palace Bridge and
Blagoveshchensky Bridge.
References
Rivers of Saint Petersburg
Distributaries of the Neva
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