{{Short description|Island in Lake Ladoga, Russia}} {{coord|59|57|14.48|N|31|02|18.68|E|region:RU_type:landmark|display=title}} [[File:Орешек (30).JPG|thumb|View of the island from Lake Ladoga]] '''Orekhovy Island''' ({{langx|ru|Ореховый остров}}; {{langx|sv|Nötö}}; {{langx|fi|Pähkinäsaari}}) is an island in Russia, situated in Lake Ladoga and located at the confluence of Ladoga and the River Neva, at the town of Shlisselburg in Leningrad Oblast.<ref name="Leningradskaja oblast">Ленинградская область. Санкт-Петербург. Большой автодорожный и справочный Атлас. Масштас 1:160 000, 1:240 000, 1: 90 000. ООО ”Дискус Медиа”, Санкт-Петербург, 2008. {{ISBN|978-5-940-59043-9}}.</ref> The island is the site of the medieval Oreshek Fortress, where Sweden and the Novgorod Republic signed the Treaty of Nöteborg in 1323. In Russian, Finnish, and Swedish, the name means 'nut island'.
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Category:Islands of Leningrad Oblast Category:Shlisselburg