The Little Nevka or Malaya Nevka (russian: Ма́лая Не́вка) is the southern
distributary
A distributary, or a distributary channel, is a stream that branches off and flows away from a main stream channel. Distributaries are a common feature of river deltas. The phenomenon is known as river bifurcation. The opposite of a distributar ...
of the
Great Nevka
The Great Nevka or Bolshaya Nevka () is an arm of the Neva that begins about below the Liteyny Bridge in Saint Petersburg.
Attractions
* Bridges
** Samson Bridge
** Grenadiers Bridge
** Kantemirovsky Bridge
** Ushakovsky Bridge
** 3rd Yelagi ...
. The Great Nevka splits into Little Nevka (the southern armlet) and
Middle Nevka
The Middle Nevka or Srednyaya Nevka (russian: Сре́дняя Не́вка) is a branch of the Neva river delta in St. Petersburg, Russia. Flowing between Yelagin, Kamenny and Krestovsky islands, it empties into the Neva Bay
The Neva Bay (Ru ...
(the northern armlet) near the
Kamenny Island
Kamenny Islands (russian: Каменные острова, ''Kamenny Ostrova'', meaning 'Stony Islands') are a group of three islands in the Neva delta, in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Geography
The three islands are flat. They are divided by chann ...
's easternmost tip. It is also known for being the dumping ground of the famous
Rasputin
Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (; rus, links=no, Григорий Ефимович Распутин ; – ) was a Russian mystic and self-proclaimed holy man who befriended the family of Nicholas II, the last Emperor of Russia, thus ga ...
(of Russia) after his assassination.
The Little Nevka is about long; the width is from , and the depth is . It has its own armlets:
Krestovka,
Karpovka
The Karpovka (russian: Ка́рповка) is a small river of the Neva basin in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It separates Aptekarsky Island (right bank) from Petrogradsky Island (left bank). The Karpovka flows from the Bolshaya Nevka to the Malaya ...
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; however ...
. There are four bridges across Little Nevka:
Kamennoostrovsky Bridge
Kamennoostrovsky Bridge spans the Little Nevka River and connects Aptekarsky Island with Kamenny Island in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Originally constructed as a floating pontoon bridge in 1760. Between 1811 and 1813, Kamennoostrovsky Bridge bec ...
,
Lazarevsky Bridge
Lazarevsky Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge located in St. Petersburg, Russia. It crosses the Little Nevka River, connecting Krestovsky Island and Petrogradsky Island. It is near Bolshoi Krestovsky Bridge (upstream), and Bolshoi Petrovsky Bridge ...
,
Big Krestovsky Bridge,
Bolshoy Petrovsky Bridge
The Great or Bolshoi Petrovsky bridge is a bridge across Little Nevka in St. Petersburg, Russia, connecting Petrovsky Island with Krestovsky Island and passing over a small nameless islet on Little Nevka. It is very near the mouth of the rive ...
.
Rivers of Saint Petersburg
Distributaries of the Neva
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