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 ...

Astrakhan, on the Volga River, once was known as Russia's caviar capital — but no more. ... Zelenga may join the list of thousands of Russian villages that have disappeared from the map.

Russia’s mighty Volga river stretches 2,193 miles (3,530 kilometers) from the northwest of Moscow down to the Caspian Sea in the south. It’s the country’s principle waterway and the historic ...