Neva Bay
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The Newabucht (Russian Невская губа ) is the easternmost tributary of the Baltic Sea, an elongated shallow bay of the Gulf of Finland, in the region of the mouth of the Neva River in the shuffle mode.
Description
The bay lies entirely within the city limits of St. Petersburg, is about 22 kilometers long and up to 15 km wide, the water depth is only three to five meters. It extends from the Neva River delta in the field of Vasilievsky Island and several small islands in the center of St. Petersburg to the island Kotlin ( with the Municipality Kronstadt), where since the 1980s by the St. Petersburg dam from the much broader and deeper form part of Gulf is almost separated. Along the northern coast of the bay are the to St. Petersburg belonging smaller towns Lachta, Lissi Nos and Olgino, on its southern coast also several Petersburg imputed towns and settlements, including Strelna, Peterhof and Lomonosov. If you take the dam as an exact western boundary of Newabucht on, the result for the latter an area of 380 km ².
Before the construction of the dam the water of Newabucht caused regular flooding in Saint Petersburg, especially in west winds, which drove the water to the east and thus the outflow of Newawassers prevented, whereby the level of the river rose rapidly. With the embankment of the dam the flood hazard has been largely eliminated, but the water is true east of it since then as particularly dirty, because the bay both collects polluted by runoff water of the Neva, on the other hand, the water exchange with the rest of the Baltic Sea by the existence of the dam is very difficult.
In the summer months the average water temperature in the Newabucht is 17 to 19 ° C. From November to April freezes the bay, the boat traffic is maintained, however, through the use of icebreakers throughout the year.
Others
In allusion to its shallow waters of the bay (Russian Маркизова лужа ) is from the early 19th century sometimes sarcastically " Marquis puddle " called. This name owes Jean -Baptiste Prevost de Sansac, marquis de Traversay, a French-born statesman in St. Petersburg, who was from 1811 to 1828 Secretary of the Navy of the Russian Empire and in his tenure tried to use the Newabucht as a single training area for ships of the Russian fleet.
Currently there are plans to landfill larger artificial pieces of land along the eastern coastal areas of Newabucht and construction of various residential and commercial district and infrastructure objects on these. A first project under this project, the new passenger terminal for cruise ships and ferries, was realized in 2008. A total of about 100 million cubic meters of ground to be piled up, causing the shoreline of the St. Petersburg city center is shifted by one kilometers to the west.