Novaya Ladoga Novaya Ladoga Novaya Ladoga () is a town in Volkhovsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located at the point where the Volkhov River flows into Lake Ladoga, east of St. Petersburg. Population: The Nikolo-Medvedsky (St. Nicholas) Monastery stood on the site of the modern town since the 15th century, but the nearby "sloboda" was long overshadowed by the first Russian capital, Staraya Ladoga, located just a few miles upstream. In 1702–1704, during the Great Northern War, Peter the Great established a shipyard there, fortified the monastery, and ordered the population of Staraya Ladoga to relocate to the nearby village. Town
Finnish Ladoga Naval Detachment of the vessels were later integrated in the Soviet Ladoga flotilla. Listing (not necessarily exhaustive) of wartime vessels and their armament When Finnish forces in the Continuation War reached lake Ladoga in 1941, they found the Soviets had evacuated nearly every serviceable vessel to the southern shore of the lake. On 22 September 1941 the Finns captured a Soviet transport vessel (formerly Latvian coastal transport "Ilga") which was pressed into service as the transport vessel "Aunus". Other vessels available were small armed fishing boats, like 15 ton "Kukkapää". Initial Finnish naval assets however consisted of small motor boats which had