Image:LA2-Rivers of western Russia.png

Description	Map of western Russia, with national borders marked (brown), rivers emphasized (dark blue) and major cities (pink) numbered (black). Bounding box West 19°, South 50°, East 40°, North 61°. Center at 55.50000° N 29.50000° E.
Source	Based on a public domain map from the Demis map server. Markup added by LA2.
Date	May 21, 2008.
Author	LA2
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[edit] Legend

Moscow (1) is situated on the Moskva River, which at Kolomna (3) joins the Oka River, coming from Oryol (2) and contiues west to Ryazan (4).

Europe's longest river Volga originates in the Valdai Hills (5), passes Tver (6) and Rybinsk (7). Both Oka and Volga continue east, beyond this map.

The river Lovat originates in northern Belarus, passes Velikiye Luki (8) on its way to lake Ilmen. Further north, the Volkhov River passes town Veliky Novogorod (9) en route to Europe's largest lake Ladoga (10). From there, the short Neva River passes Saint Petersburg (11) at the Gulf of Finland.

Velikaya River passes Pskov (12) at lake Peipus, from where the short Narva River through the town Narva (13) near the Gulf of Finland. The capitals of Estonia, Tallinn (14) and of Finland, Helsinki (15) guard the gulf on opposite sides.

Daugava is the Latvian name of Zapadnaya Dvina, which passes Vitebsk (16), Daugavpils (17) and ends at Riga (18) at the Gulf of Riga.

Neris, which passes through Lituania's capital Vilnius (19) is a tributary to Neman River, which originates near Minsk (20), the capital of Belarus. The two merge at Kaunas (21). Neman ends at the Curian Lagoon.

Further south is the city Kaliningrad/Königsberg (22) on the Pregolya river, which mouths in the Vistula Lagoon.

The long Dnieper River passes Smolensk (23) in Russia, runs through Belarus and Kiev (24) in the Ukraine before it finally mouths in the Black Sea. One of its tributaries is Desna River which passes Bryansk (25).

• List of rivers of Russia