Yn de [[16e ieu]] lei it Sweedske fort [[Nyen]] oan de mûning fan de Neva, en der wie in Russysk fort 'Oresjek' op it plak dêr't de Neva yn it Ladogamar útkomt. It Nyen fort waard ferneatige troch [[Peter de Grutte]], nei't er dêr it [[Peter en Paul Fort]] yn 1703 stifte hie op it Hazze-eilân. It fort wurdt beskôge as it earste gebou fan it tsjintwurdige Sint Petersburch. Tsaar Peter joech ek de oanset ta it dollen fan it [[Ladogakanaal]] dy't de Neva mei de Volkhov en de Svir ferbynt.
During the 16th century the mouth of the Neva was the site of the [[Sweden|Swedish]] fortress [[Nyen]], and the inlet to the Ladoga of the Russian fortress [[Oreshek]], later renamed [[Shlisselburg]]. The Nyen fortress was destroyed by [[Peter the Great]], after that he founded the [[Peter and Paul Fortress]] in 1703. Standing on the [[Zayachy Island|Hare Island]], the fortress is considered the first structure of present-day Saint Petersburg
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[[Peter en Paul Fort]]
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. It was also Peter who ordered construction of the [[Ladogakanaal]] linking the Neva with the [[Volkhov River|Volkhov]] and the [[Svir River]]s several miles south of Lake Ladoga.
[[Ofbyld:Makhayev, Kachalov - View of Neva Downstream between Winter Palace and Academy of Sciences 1753.jpg|thumb|center|700px|<center>De Neva yn Sint Petersburch, 1753.</center>]]
