Since nearly all Volga cities and towns—and Moscow, via the canal—end up using the river for their water supply, this pollution comes with a hefty bill for water treatment.

Astrakhan is the last major city downstream on the Volga River, on the edge of a delta reaching into the Caspian Sea. This is the spawning ground for beluga and its cousin, the highly prized ...

Four of the 2018 World Cup sites rest along the historic Volga river, but life continues as normal outside the stadiums.

There are 22 Orthodox monasteries on the Volga. The capital city of Muslim Tatarstan, Kazan, with more than one million residents, also stands on the river.

Throw in long pedestrian avenues, the legacy of the Volga Germans and the mighty Volga River and you start to see the fuller picture of this city that was literally built over night.

Sailing the Volga to Russias cities, small towns Joan Rattner Heilman I have just returned from a cruise in Russia. And I dont mean a cruise to Russia, the way megaships often visit St. Petersburg ...

The river marks the heartland of Russia, and the towns it sustains embody the optimism and the frustrations of the post-Soviet era.

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 ...

The Caspian Sea is shrinking at an alarming rate, a crisis now visible to the naked eye and driven by climate change and ...

Roman Busargin, governor of the Saratov region about 450 miles southeast of Moscow, said the cities of Saratov and Engels, on opposite banks of the Volga River, had been subjected to a mass drone ...

Europe's longest river stretches for an astonishing 2,193 miles across only one country and has long been considered a symbol of national unity. The source of the Volga River stands in the Valdai ...