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            Sunset over the Volga river. Russia. city of Konakovo.
The Volga is the most famous river in Russia. She is known all over the world. Poems, paintings, films, songs are dedicated to the Great Russian River. On its banks there are many outstanding sights. You can travel both by water and along the coast.
In the Tver region there is a small village Volgoverkhovye. This is where the Volga begins. The river ends in Astrakhan, where it merges with the Caspian. The length of the Volga reaches 3530 km! In the world, according to this indicator, it ranks 15th, behind the Yenisei, the Nile and the Amazon. But in Europe, the Volga has no equal in length and area of \u200b\u200bthe basin.
It is believed that the name of the river comes from the Old Slavonic word, which meant "moisture". The Volga bed began to form more than five million years ago. In the prehistoric era, the river flowed into the Caspian Sea not where Astrakhan is now, but in the area of present-day Baku. Since the climate in the lower reaches was subtropical, thickets of palm trees and magnolias flaunted on the banks. In the upper reaches, on the contrary, the glacier dominated, so the river was covered with an ice shell.
In written sources, the Volga was first mentioned in the collection of ancient Iranian sacred texts "Avesta", which dates back to the end of the second millennium BC. Then it was called Ranha - a river flowing at the end of the world. This is how the ancient Iranians perceived the territory of the current central strip of Russia. Later, the Volga was mentioned by Herodotus, Ptolemy and Aristotle. Their river was named Ra. The ancient Greek historian Herodotus described the Volga delta, where people lived who ate raw fish and wore clothes made of seal skins. Seals are still found off the coast of the Caspian Sea.
At present, the Volga is navigable from Rzhev to the Caspian Sea. A total of 57 bridges span the river.
   

Taken in: Russia / Tver’ Oblast / Konakovo (show map)

Taken on: June 6, 2021

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