The Little Neva or Malaya Neva (russian: Ма́лая Нева́) is the second largest distributary 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 ...

. The Neva splits into

Great Neva The Great Neva or Bolshaya Neva () is the largest armlet of the river Neva. It starts near the Spit of Vasilievsky Island (easternmost tip of the island). The Great Neva is long; the width is from and the depth up to . Its tributaries are Font ...

(the southern armlet) and Little Neva (the northern armlet) 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), in the historic centre of the city of

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

. The Little Neva is long; the width is from , and the depth is . It has its own armlets: Smolenka and

Zhdanovka The Zhdanovka (russian: Ждановка) is a short river in the Neva river delta in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It separates Petrogradsky Island from Petrovsky Island. History In the 17th century, the river did not have a specific name; howeve ...

. There are three bridges across Little Neva:

Exchange Bridge Exchange Bridge (russian: Биржево́й мост, ''Birzhevoy most'') is a bascule bridge in Saint Petersburg, opened in 1894. The bridge crosses the Little Neva River (distributary of Neva River) close to the Exchange Square and connects t ...

Tuchkov Bridge Tuchkov Bridge (russian: Ту́чков мост) is a bascule bridge across Little Neva (a distributary of Neva river) in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Its length is 226 meters and its width is 36 meters. Tuchkov bridge connects Vasilievsky Island a ...

and

Betancourt Bridge Betancourt Bridge (russian: Мост Бетанку́ра, ''Most Betankura'') is a non- bascule 6-lane bridge with a cycle path in Saint Petersburg that opened in 2018. The bridge crosses the Little Neva and the Zhdanovka rivers, passing Petrovs ...

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Rivers of Saint Petersburg Distributaries of the Neva {{Russia-river-stub

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