The Volga is consistently among the three most polluted rivers in the country, accounting for nearly 40% of all polluted wastewater in Russia. Alexander Demin, a river researcher at the Water ...

Russia’s mighty Volga river stretches 2,193 miles (3,530 kilometers) from the northwest of Moscow down to the Caspian Sea in the south. It’s the country’s principle waterway and the historic ...

Nowhere is the Volga River more hallowed than in the city named after it: Volgograd, better known as Stalingrad, site of one of World War II's most important, and bloodiest, battles. Today ...

Astrakhan, on the Volga River, once was known as Russia's caviar capital — but no more. As the fish neared extinction, Russia banned all commercial sturgeon fishing in the area and the export of ...

The longest river in Russia, the Lena, measures 4,400 km. In comparison, one of the largest rivers in Europe, the Danube, measures 2,860 km. The Lena’s source is not far from Lake Baikal and it ...

By the mid-sixteenth century, Tsar Ivan IV had established control along the entire length of the river, thereby turning Russia into a multiethnic and multiconfessional empire. The Russian state’s ...

International journalists Marzio Mian and Alessandro Cosmelli discussed on Friday their recent work reporting along the Volga River in Russia, which produced a cover story for Harper’s Magazine ...

More than 20,000 soldiers from Russia's Povolzhye -- territories comprising several regions around the Volga River -- have died in Ukraine since the start of Moscow’s invasion of its neighbor ...

Russian officials say over 40 Ukrainian drones were shot down near the Voronezh border on Tuesday, with more intercepted in Rostov and Ulyanovsk. No injuries were reported, though damage occurred in ...

Russia declared an emergency in the Orenburg region near Kazakhstan after the Ural River, Europe’s third longest, swelled Friday and burst through a dam embankment in the city of Orsk.