Ust-Izhora
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Ust-Izhora is situated at the confluence of River Izhora into River Neva, approximately halfways between Saint Petersburg and Schlisselburg. Some 30 kilometers from both Gulf of Finland in the west and Lake Ladoga in the north-east.
On 15 July, 1240, weak forces led by Prince Alexander Yaroslavich of Novgorod defeated the Swedish here, and prevented them from advancing farther south into Ingria. The chronicles tell of a "great battle," in which Alexander's men stormed and sank three Swedish ships, and Alexander himself wounded Birger, the Swedish commander. Following this victory on the Neva, the prince was renamed Alexander Nevsky. The Russian Orthodox Church eventually canonized him, and he is now the patron saint of Saint Petersburg.