El Tafkin Ladoga korama ce dake cikin Jamhuriyar Karelia kuma Leningrad Oblast, a arewa maso yammacin Rasha, kusa da Saint Petersburg. Ita ce tabki mafi girma a Turai, kuma tafki mafi girma ta 14th, ta yanki a duniya.
Yankin tabkin yana kilomita 17.891² (ban da tsibirai). Tsawonsa (daga arewa zuwa kudu) yana da kilomita 219, matsakaicin faɗi shine kilomita 83, matsakaicin zurfin shine 51 m, matsakaicin zurfin kusan 230 m (a yankin arewa maso yamma). Akwai kusan tsibirai 660, tare da jimillar yanki na 435 km².
Karelian Isthmus ya raba shi daga Tekun Baltic, wanda ya tsallaka zuwa Tekun Finland ta Kogin Neva, ana iya yin tafkin Ladoga, kasancewar wani ɓangare na Kogin Volga-Baltic da ke haɗa Tekun Baltic da Kogin Volga. Hanyar Ladoga tana ratsa tabkin a bangaren kudu, wanda ya hada Neva da Svir.
Tafkin Ladoga ya hada da wasu tabkuna dubu 50.000 da rafuka 3.500 sama da kilomita 10. Kusan kashi 85% na kudin shigar ruwa ya samo asali ne daga rafuka, 13% saboda hazo ne, sannan kashi 2% saboda ruwan karkashin kasa ne.
Ladoga yana da wadataccen kifi. Akwai nau'ikan nau'ikan kifaye 48 (nau'ikan da ba za a iya fayyace su ba da kuma taxa) a cikin tafkin, wadanda suka hada da kyankyasai, kifin zinare, walleye, turaren Turai, ruff, yawan shakar nishadi, nau'ikan Albula Coregonus guda biyu, iri takwas na Coregonus lavaretus, adadi mai yawa na salmonids, kazalika da wasu, kodayake ba safai ba, ke da haɗarin haɗarin teku na Turai.
Kamun kifi na kasuwanci ya kasance babbar masana'antu, amma ya wuce kifi. Bayan yakin, tsakanin 1945 - 1954, adadin kamun da aka samu a shekara ya karu zuwa matsakaicin tan 4.900.
Hakanan, Nizhnesvirsky Nature Reserve yana bakin ƙetaren tafkin Ladoga kai tsaye arewa da bakin Kogin Svir.
