China is reviving an ekranoplan design dubbed the "Bohai Sea Monster," echoing the Soviet "Caspian Sea Monster", a vessel ...

It made international news, especially given the strategic location of the Caspian Sea. At the time, Kumani Island still sat under the water 10km away.

Along the southern coast of the Caspian Sea in Manzandaran, Iran, the remains of a shipwreck were discovered under a sand dune. The Caspian Sea is surrounded by five countries-Russia, Kazakhstan ...

As a result, much less water has been flowing into the Caspian Sea,” Kozybakov told Al Jazeera. “A hundred years ago, the sturgeon would live for many decades, and no one would touch it.

And this isn’t the first time the area has seen shallow waters—according to Podolyako, Caspian Sea water levels fell during the 1930s, 1970s, and the 2010s.

The Caspian Sea Is a Sanctions-Busting Paradise. By Elisabeth Braw. ... are also conducting dark port calls—calling at ports with their AIS switched off—and some are even spoofing their location.

The waters of the Caspian Sea appear deceptively calm. But this sea route – which provides a direct path between Iran and Russia – is increasingly busy with cargo traffic, including suspected ...

Russia has not confirmed its use of the Caspian for attacks on Ukraine, but it was not always so coy. In October 2015, official media quoted then-Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu as saying that the ...

The waters of the Caspian Sea appear deceptively calm. But this sea route – which provides a direct path between Iran and Russia – is increasingly busy with cargo traffic, including suspected ...

Kozybakov did not like it. It was salty and “smelled like the sea”, said Kozybakov, an ecologist, now 51. He grew up in Aktau, a city in western Kazakhstan on the shores of the Caspian Sea.