Hartley’s chronological narrative, rich in vivid detail, begins over 1,000 years ago, when the principality of Kievan Rus vied with the Khazar Khaganate and the Bulgars for the lucrative trade on the ...

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 ...

The 2,300-mile Mother Volga, a river of history, folklore, song and art, is far more than Europe’s longest waterway. Like the Mississippi in America, it defines Russia’s spiritual heartland.

History Of The Volga What is today known as the Russian automaker GAZ was founded in 1929. A technology-sharing agreement was reached with the U.S. Ford Motor Company and the foundations were laid ...

Russia has a long history of road, air and sea disasters, ... It has made 4 thousand km from Port of Ortona to the Volga river within 45 days. 28 Jul 2014.

Fourth of five parts Nowhere is the Volga River more hallowed than in the city named after it: Volgograd, better known to history as Stalingrad. During World War II, perhaps the bloodiest battle ...

The founder of the Russian band Cream Soda, whose music was used during anti-war protests in Russia, died after falling through the ice while crossing Russia’s Volga River on Sunday.

At the heart of this discovery was the Caucasus-Lower Volga (CLV) population, who lived between 4500 and 3500 BCE in the region between the northern Caucasus and the southern Volga River.

Within the framework of the federal project "Improvement of the Volga River" of the national project "Ecology", the Small Darma river was cleared in the Trusovsky district of Astrakhan. Rosvodresursy ...