Here's how the mother river can be fixed ... The complex, consisting of 11 dams on the Volga and its largest tributary, the Kama, is responsible for about 5% of the total electricity production ...

River cruising makes a lot of sense in Russia ... After leaving Moscow, we stopped at several villages along the Volga and its tributaries, where we experienced a more tranquil side of Russian ...

Activists claim that Russian officials are disrupting the flow of the biggest tributary to the Caspian ... This is where the Kazanka River merges into the Volga, the largest source of water ...

Without the tributaries: 3,487 km ... and perhaps the most popular and well known Russian river. The Volga, in Russia, is referred to as “Volga mother.” The river has long been a source ...

The source of the Volga River stands in the Valdai Hills just northwest of Moscow, where its first tributaries push it northwest and turn it navigable. The Volga is connected to Russia's capital ...

Spanned by 13 hydroelectric stations, the river today is a cascade of reservoirs ... because they have already laid their eggs in Volga tributaries that are now drying up. "The low water came ...

The 725m long and 44m high concrete giant sits about 20km outside the city centre and dissects Europe’s longest and most powerful river, the Volga. Construction began in the 1950s, as part of ...