In April 1912, on the River Lena, in a remote corner of distant Siberia, 300 hungry workers, exhausted by their unbearable workload and intolerable living conditions, were shot by low-ranking agents ...
This week, Russian Life takes you to the Volga Delta near Astrakhan, where Europe’s largest river flows into the Caspian Sea. This unique environment makes the region a fisherman’s dream. Far from the ...
Eight years after a dry run for the International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC) was conducted between Mumbai and Astrakhan via Bandar Abbas, the Russian authorities are keen to convert this ...