Lake Ladoga (Russian: Ла́дожское о́зеро, Ladozhskoye ozero; or Russian: Ла́дога, Ladoga; ; Finnish: Laatokka ; Karelian: Luadogu) is a freshwater lake located in the Republic of Karelia and Leningrad Oblast in northwestern Russia just outside the outskirts of Saint Petersburg. It is the largest lake in Europe, and the 14th largest lake by area in the world.
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“What a wilderness walk for a man to take alone! None of your half-mile swamps, none of your mile-wide woods merely, as on the skirts of our towns, without hotels, only a dark mountain or a lake for guide-board and station, over ground much of it impassable in summer!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)