Volchya River (Vuoksi tributary)

Infobox River
river_name =Volchya River

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caption =
origin = Lembolovo Heights
mouth = Vuoksi River not far from Losevo (coord|60|39|50|N|30|00|12|E|type:T|display=inline)
basin_countries = Russia
length = 52 km (32 mi)
elevation =
mouth_elevation = 7 m (23 ft)
discharge =
watershed = in some places)

The river is crossed by the Sosnovo ( _fi. Rautu) – Pervomayskoye ( _fi. Kivennapa) road on Lembolovo Heights, Sosnovo – Borisovo ( _fi. Nurmijärvi) – Michurinskoye ( _fi. Valkjärvi) road at Razdolye ( _fi. Mäkrälä) and by the Losevo ( _fi. Kiviniemi) – Yagodnoye ( _fi. Vaalimo) road at the lower portion of the river.

Since 1928 there is a little hydroelectric plant on the river not far from Petäjärvi (now Petrovskoye), which was the largest private hydroelectric facility in pre-Winter War Finland (owned by Leonard Sääksjärvi). [http://kannas.nm.ru/priozersk_district2.htm]

The entire river was a boundary between the Kingdom of Sweden and Novgorod Republic as defined in 1323 in the Treaty of Nöteborg. The higher reaches of Saijanjoki (Volchya) to the south of Tungelmanjoki (Smorodinka) and Tungelmanjoki itself constituted part of the Russia-Finland border in 1811-1940. Now that stretch of Volchya River divides Priozersky and Vyborgsky District from Vsevolozhsky District, while Smorodinka marks another part of the boundary between Priozersky District and Vsevolozhsky District.

The river was renamed from Saijanjoki to Volchya (lit. "Wolf River") in 1948, just like the vast majority of other Finnish hydronyms and toponyms on the territories ceded by Finland to the Soviet Union as a result of the Continuation War.

External links

* [http://ktmz.boom.ru/library/wwte/len47/karelsk/vuoksa.html#volch Река Волчья]