a lake in Russia, between the gulfs of Onega and Finland, measuring 150 miles by 90, and considered as the largest in Europe. Seals are among the fish with which it abounds. It is full of quicksands, which often prove fatal to the Russian flat-bottomed vessels; these sands often shifting from place to place by violent storms, and forming a number of shelves.

On this account Peter the Great cut a canal 67 miles in length from the south-west extremity of the lake, thus opening a communication between it and the gulf of Finland.

New, a town in the Russian government of Peterburgh, seated on the Volkhof, between the canal and lake of Ladoga. Old Ladoga is higher up the river, and a place of no great extent. The former is 70 miles east of Peterburgh, in N. Lat. 60° E. Long. 21° 44'.