hidden Kolchanovo, a country estate Kolchanovo, a country estate (the village of Kolchanovo, the Volkhov district). In 1865 Kolchanovo was bought by M.R. Sharapov, a state peasant by origin. A wooden manor-house faced to the River Syas was built in the 1860s. Due to dividing the... more

hidden Syas River, the SYAS, a river in the south-eastern Priladozhye. Length: 260 km, of which, abt. 190 km within Leningrad Oblast. The average flow rate is 61.6 cu. m/s, and the catchment area, 7330 sq. km. It originates in the north-east of Novgorod Oblast, 6 km... more

hidden The Syask village church of the Nativity (Kolchanovo Village, Volkhovsky District) The Syask village church of the Nativity (Kolchanovo Village, Volkhovsky District) The original wooden church of the Birrh of John the Baptist was built before 1582; in 1735 the new wooden church was built on its place, it was dismantled in ... more

hidden Tikhvin Canal System TIKHVIN CANAL SYSTEM, a traffic artery in the north-west of European Russia. It connected the basins of the Baltic Sea and the Volga in the 19th-20th cc. It began at the city of Rybinsk on the Volga (later at the Rybinsk Reservoir), extended via the... more