The Okhta () is a
river
A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of wate ...
in
Vsevolozhsky District
Vsevolozhsky District (russian: Все́воложский райо́н) is an administrativeOblast Law #32-oz and municipalLaw #17-oz district (raion), one of the seventeen in Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It is located in the central northwestern p ...
of
Leningrad Oblast
Leningrad Oblast ( rus, Ленинградская область, Leningradskaya oblast’, lʲɪnʲɪnˈgratskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ, , ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). It was established on 1 August 1927, a ...
and the eastern part 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 ...
,
Russia
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. It is the largest right
tributary
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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 ...
. It joins the Neva upstream of the Neva's mouth, within the city limits of Saint Petersburg. The length of the Okhta is , and the area of its drainage basin is .
Its largest tributary is the
Okkervil
The Okkervil () is a river in Leningrad Oblast and the eastern part of the city of Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is the largest left tributary of the Okhta. It is long and wide.
The name ''Okkervil'' appeared in the 17th century, after the Swed ...
(left). The
Rzhevsky Reservoir ( long, wide, with a volume of 4 mln m³) has been built on the Okhta. The
Utkina Dacha
Utkina Dacha (Utkin Dacha) is an 18th-century architectural ensemble in St. Petersburg, near the junction of the Okkervil and the Okhta rivers. It is included in Russian cultural heritage register under number 7810250000. During recent years, it wa ...
estate is located on the banks of the Okhta close to the mouth of the Okkervil.
The source of the Okhta is in the swamps in the northwestern part of Vsevolozhsky District, north of the town of
Sertolovo
Sertolovo (russian: Се́ртолово; fi, Sierattala) is a town in Vsevolozhsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located north of St. Petersburg. Population:
History
It was founded in 1936 on the place of a former settlement of I ...
. The Okhta flows southeast, downstream of the settlement of
Vartemyagi turns east, passes southwest of the urban-type settlement of
Toksovo and turns south. Below Toksovo, it essentially flows through the suburbs of Saint Petersburg. Downstream of the town of
Murino it enters the city of Saint Petersburg, passes
Ladozhsky railway station and has its mouth under the
Malookhtinsky Bridge, which separates
Malookhtinskaya and
Sverdlovskaya Embankments.
The drainage basin of the Okhta includes the south of the Karelian Isthmus. The town of
Vsevolozhsk and the urban-type settlements of Toksovo and
Kuzmolovsky are located in this river basin. Large lakes in the basin of the Okhta include
Lake Kavgolovskoye and
Lake Khepoyarvi
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.
See also
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List of bridges in Saint Petersburg
There are more than 342 bridges in the city limits of Saint Petersburg, Russia. This is a partial list of the most famous ones.
Peter the Great was designing the city as another Amsterdam and Venice, with canals instead of streets and citizens sk ...
References
{{Rivers and channels of Saint Petersburg
Rivers of Leningrad Oblast
Rivers of Saint Petersburg
Karelian Isthmus