Volkhov River

Volkhov River

also spelled  Volchov , Russian  Reka Volkhov 

      river, northwestern Russia. It is the major outlet for Lake Ilmen, whence it flows past Novgorod and directly north-northeast into Lake Ladoga across a level, swampy basin. The river is 139 miles (224 km) long and drains a basin of 31,000 square miles (80,200 square km). It is frozen from mid-November to mid-April. At the town of Volkhov the first hydroelectric station in the Soviet Union was built in 1926. The Volkhov, in early times part of the important Baltic Sea–Black Sea trade route, is navigable only by small craft.

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