Historical place archive

Lake Ladoga in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Lake Ladoga in Russia. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

3 records2 event labels2 people1702–1943

Historical events in Lake Ladoga

1702

June 1702
Lake Ladoga Operations
Peter I · Great Northern War

Peter supports small-boat operations intended to challenge Swedish control of Lake Ladoga.

1943

12 January 1943
Iskra
Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov · World War, 2nd

Launches Operation "Iskra" with the Leningrad garrison moving south along Lake Ladoga

18 January 1943
Iskra
Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov · World War, 2nd

Links up with the Volkhov front to repel the Germans after their siege of Leningrad

Provenance

About these place records

These entries are generated from stored World History Database records whose country and place fields match Russia and Lake Ladoga. Names, dates, event labels and descriptions are reviewed and normalised as the database develops. Historical place names may not match modern administrative boundaries.

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