Leningrad Oblast of two great lakes of the European Part of Russia, Lake Ladoga and Lake Onega. Its northeastern part, between the Gulf of Finland and Lake Ladoga, occupies the Karelian Isthmus. Some islands in the Gulf of Finland (including Kotlin, on which the city of Kronstadt has been built) and Lake Ladoga (including Konevets) also belong to the oblast. Much of the area of the oblast belongs to the drainage basin of the Neva, which is the only outflow of Lake Ladoga. Whereas the Neva, which flows to the Gulf of Finland (the city of Saint Petersburg is located in its
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