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Novaya Ladoga is a 300-years old town of
a charming provincial look.
The shipyard and canals that gave birth
to the town were arranged here by appointment of Peter I.
According to a legend, Tsar Peter has come to the site and
even wheeled the first three barrows of soil to launch construction
process. One of the canals was named Petrovsky in his honour;
it was the largest waterside structure of the 18th century
in Europe.
The Nikolo-Medvedsky Monastery founded in
the 14th century was one of the earliest structures in the
area. It still delights our eyes with the beautiful Church
of the Nativity of Our Lady (the 16th century).
Novaya Ladoga was the main town of Novoladozhsky
uezd (district) from 1773 to 1922. By the beginning of the
20th century 144 residential houses were built here, 14 of
them being made of stone. Mostly pilots taking vessels across
Ladoga Lake lived here; traders and low middle class were
also quite numerous.
Novaya Ladoga can be called an open-air
museum by right, having a lot of architectural monuments of
the 18th-19th centuries preserved, with the Gostiny Dvor (Merchants'
Yard), building of the Town Council, wooden residential houses
being among them.
To commemorate the days of Great Patriotic
War, two vessels of the Ladoga flotilla of the Order of the
Red Banner - a mine-sweeper and a steamer tugboat are forever
anchored in the town.
Novaya Ladoga of our days is a small industrial
town with population of 12 ths. people. Such enterprises as
the ship-repairing plant, "Lakond", fishing cooperative
named after M.Kalinin, fish cannery, "Volkhovkhleb"
complex and leather goods factory are well known in Leningrad
region and beyond.
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