Neva Estuary is located in the eastern part of the Gulf of Finland. The western boundary of this estuary is not clearly defined geographically, due to the lack of a comprehensive definition of an estuary in general (Elliott and McLusky 2002). In the past, several attempts at subdividing Neva Estuary have been undertaken by researchers. One of the most recent classifications (Golubkov et al. 2003a) distinguishes certain parts of Neva Estuary that are well separated by natural and/or artificial boundaries. Some publications, however, present schemes of this estuarine water system in which Neva Bay is falsely excluded from the estuary subdivision, whereas in fact it should be considered as the head of Neva Estuary.
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Telesh, I.V., Golubkov, S.M., Alimov, A.F. (2008). The Neva Estuary Ecosystem. In: Schiewer, U. (eds) Ecology of Baltic Coastal Waters. Ecological Studies, vol 197. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73524-3_12
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