The Volga. By Janet Hartley.Yale University Press; 400 pages; $35 and £25. WITHOUT THE Volga, there would be no Russia. The final words of Janet Hartley’s book sound sweeping. But its 400 pages make ...

Two-week journey on the Volga explores country’s long history A trip along the mighty Volga River in Russia provides an incredible history lesson – whether about conquering tsars and invading armies, ...

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Uniting the Seas (Baltic, Black and Caspian Seas) in favour of World Heritage Education for Sustainable Development with the support of ICTs The GVRR project aims to link young people engaged in the ...

Eleven people on a river cruise were killed when their boat collided with a tugboat late on Monday in the Russian city of Volgograd, which is hosting matches in the soccer World Cup, rescue services ...

As winter slowly approached in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod region, the trees along the River Volga began to change colour (at the time of my visit). Their leaves turned bright red, orange and yellow, ...

In the central Russian city of Ulyanovsk, bathers at a popular municipal beach must traipse more than 200 meters to reach the waters of the Kuibyshev Reservoir. Near Kazan, the capital of Russia's ...