Too many dams have made Russia's most important river dysfunctional. Here's how the mother river can be fixed. You can find Dubna, a small town three hours away from Moscow by train, both on a map and ...
One of the most popular car brands in the USSR, Volga, was a favorite of Vladimir Putin and Yuri Gagarin. It even became a hero of dark urban legends in Eastern Europe. Designed by the Gorky ...
Climb Levitan’s Hill Visit one of the art galleries and maybe even buy a picture by a local artist Try the beer and traditional delicacies at the Plyos beer house inside an 18th-century building Walk ...
Connections DP History Key Concept: Change. World history topic 10: Authoritarian states (20th century). HL option 4: History of Europe — Unit 12: Imperial Russia, revolution and the establishment of ...
The BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes is travelling in a Volga car along the Volga river to take a snapshot of life in Vladimir Putin's Russia, as the presidential election looms. This is his first piece, ...
Sleek, low-slung and preferably black, it was once an object of desire for every Soviet bureaucrat. Now, more than half a century after it was first produced, Russia is stopping production of the ...
En route to a wedding in Astrakhan, writer Thom Wheeler traced the length of the 2,200-mile Volga river, by foot, boat, bus and train The Volga river slices through the heartland of Russia and covers ...