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Peipus, Lake

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Peipus, Lake (Estonian: Peipsi Järv; Russian: Chudskoye Ozero), Estonia‐Russia A lake forming part of the border between Estonia and Russia. The Estonian name is said to come from the Finnish peipposen ‘finches’, thus ‘(Lake of) Finches’. The Russian name comes from an Old Russian tribal name, Chud, probably associated with chuzhoy ‘strange’, ‘alien’, or ‘foreign’ to give ‘strangers’.

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Lake Peipus

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Lake Peipus , Estonian Peipsi Järv, Rus. Chudskoye Ozero, c.1,390 sq mi (3,600 sq km), dividing Estonia from the W Pskov region, Russia. Its southern section is known as Lake Pskov. Lake Peipus, which is navigable, empties through the Narva River into the Gulf of Finland. On the frozen strait between Lake Peipus and Lake Pskov, Alexander Nevsky defeated the Livonian Knights in 1242.

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