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unusual facts about Volga-Baltic Waterway



2015 World Aquatics Championships

Kazan is located at the confluence of the Volga and Kazanka Rivers in the European part of Russia just one hour from Moscow by air.

Beware of the Car

All cars stolen by Detochkin are "Volga"s - the most prestigious Soviet car model of the time.

Bolghar

Regular Russian incursions along the Volga, and internecine fights forced the Volga Bulgar kings to intermittently move their capital to Bilyar.

Caspian Flotilla

In July 1919, the Astrakhan-Caspian Military Flotilla was combined with the Volga Military Flotilla (Волжская военная флотилия, or Volzhskaya voyennaya flotiliya) and renamed to the Volga-Caspian Military Flotilla (Волжско-Каспийская военная флотилия).

Chuvash people

Some of its population fled north, to the Volga-Kama region, where they established Volga Bulgaria, which eventually became extremely wealthy; its capital being the 4th largest city in the world.

Chuvashia

The Volga and Sura Rivers connect Chuvashia to a national and international water network.

Culex modestus

It is believed to be the principle bridge vector of WNV between birds and humans in southern France and is thought to have played a role in WNV transmission in the Danube delta, Caspian and Asov sea deltas, and the Volga region in Russia.

Dodge Stratus

The license and production facilities for the second generation Dodge Stratus and Chrysler Sebring sedans were sold in April 2006 to Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska, owner the GAZ company in Nizhny Novgorod, which builds the Volga automobile.

Eastern Hungarians

Prior to the Mongol Invasion, he reached the territory bordered by the rivers VolgaKamaBelayaUral as a companion to a Muslim priest.

Fall of Berlin – 1945

The narrator lists the names of the rivers that the Red Army crosses as they march west: Volga, Don, Desna, Dnieper, Bug, Dvina, Neman, Vistula, and finally, Oder.

Filatima autocrossa

It is found in China, the southern Ural Mountains, the lower Volga region, the Altai Mountains, the Tuva region, the Chita region and the Krasnoyarsk region.

Gorodets, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

Between 1948 and 1959, the dam of Gorky Hydroelectric Station (now Nizhny Novgorod Hydroelectric Station) was built a few kilometers upstream from Gorodets, and along with the station a new industrial town, Zavolzhye, was built on the right side of the Volga.

Hordes of the Jochid Ulus

Batu Khan effectively founded the White Horde (or Blue Horde) upon the withdrawal from Europe in 1242 and by 1245, Sarai, the capital of the Horde had been founded on the lower Volga.

Jignas

His superlative performance at the schooling age of 14 while studying class IX in Second South Asian Archery championship held in Jamshedpur has brought fame to the entire Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh archery fraternity and also to Volga Archery academy under international coach Lenin, who died in an accident while travelling back home along with

Kargaly

The ideas presented were based on the results from a series of spectral analyses of metal objects from burials of the Pit-grave and Poltavka (Yamno-Poltavka) community of the southern Urals and Volga regions.

Kubrat Knoll

It is named after Khan Kubrat, 632-668 AD, who founded the Kingdom of Great Bulgaria on the territory bounded by the Caucasus, Volga and the Carpathians in 632 AD.

Lake Vozhe

Historically, Lake Vozhe was on the trading route connecting the basings of the Volga and the Onega via the Sheksna River.

Lipin Bor

Lake Beloye is a part of the Volga–Baltic Waterway (formerly known as the Mariinsk Canal System), connecting the Rybinsk Reservoir in the river basin of the Volga and Lake Onega in the river basin of the Neva.

Lyubytinsky District

Since the Pes belongs to the basin of the Volga, and the Syas, the Pchyovzha, and the Msta all belong to the basin of the Neva, the district is crossed by the divide between the basins of the Atlantic Ocean and the Caspian Sea.

Marino Sanuto the Elder

Here the shore-lines of the countries well known to Italian mariners, from Flanders to Azov, are well laid down; the Caspian and the north German and Scandinavian coasts appear with an evident, though far slighter, relation to practical knowledge; and some idea is shown of the great continental rivers of the north, such as the Don, Volga, Vistula, Oxus and Syr Daria.

Mongol invasion of Rus'

Refugees from southern Rus' moved mostly to the northeast, into the forested region with poor soils between the upper Volga and the Oka Rivers.

Multi-cordoned ware culture

Tribes of this culture inhabited an area stretching from the Don to Moldavia, including Dnieper Ukraine, Right-bank Ukraine, and part of the modern Ternopil oblast, and was bordered by the Volga to the east.

Nuclear Explosions for the National Economy

A small tributary of the Volga, the Shacha, changed its location and threatened to flood the explosion site.

Old Saint Petersburg Stock Exchange and Rostral Columns

Seated marble figures decorate the base of each column each representing the major rivers of Russia — the Volga and Dnieper at the northern Rostral Column, Neva and Volkhov at the southern one.

Operation Fischreiher

General Friedrich Paulus' 6th Army, and part of the 4th Panzer Army under General Hermann Hoth, was to advance across the Don river towards the city of Stalingrad on the Western bend of the Volga river.

Palmiro Togliatti

The Russian city of Stavropol-on-Volga, where Togliatti had been instrumental in establishing the AutoVAZ (Lada) automobile manufacturing plant in collaboration with Fiat, was renamed Tolyatti (as transliterated from Тольятти, the Russian spelling of his name) in his honor in 1964, after his death.

Poltavka

Poltavka culture, an early to middle Bronze Age archaeological culture of the middle Volga

Romashkino Field

Discovered in 1948, it is the largest oil field of Volga-Ural Basin.

Russian architecture

A zenith of Volga architecture was reached in the Church of St John the Baptist (built 1671-87)—the largest in Yaroslavl, with 15 cupolas and more than 500 frescoes.

Russian Constituent Assembly

The Committee had the support of the Czechoslovak Legions and was able to spread its authority over much of the Volga-Kama region.

Sarkel

Alexander Vasiliev and George Vernadsky, among others, argue that Sarkel was built to defend a vital portage between the Don and the Volga from the Rus' Khaganate.

Shakne Epshtein

Solomon Mikhoels, the chairman of JAC and Epshtein approached Vyacheslav Molotov, the Soviet foreign minister and a Stalin henchman, with an idea to create a Jewish republic in the Crimea or in the Volga area (in place of the dismantled Volga Germans republic).

Soviet Naval Aviation

They participated in the Russian Civil War, cooperating with the ships and the army during the combats at Petrograd, on the Baltic Sea, the Black Sea, the Volga, the Kama River, Northern Dvina and on the Lake Onega.

Sumka River

It origins near Gremyachy Klyuch and falls to the Kuybyshev Reservoir, Volga, forming the western border of Vasilyevo, Tatarstan.

The Song of the Rivers

The sprawling film celebrates international workers movements along six major rivers: the Volga, Mississippi, Ganges, Nile, Amazon and the Yangtze.

Tikhvinskaya water system

The waterway went along the Volga (32 km.), then on Mologa River (175 km.).

Vodohod

After merging with Volga Flot Tour company operates more than 50 passenger ships along rivers of Volga, Don, Kama, the Moscow and Volga-Don canals, the Volga-Baltic Waterway, Northern-Western rivers, lakes Ladoga and Onega.

Volga Cossacks

Due to the creation of the Tsaritsyn fortified line in the 18th century, the central government decided to form the Volga Cossack Host (Волгское казачье войско) consisting of 1057 families (mostly Don Cossacks) with the center in Dubovka (north of Tsaritsyn).

Volga-Volga

According to Orlova, the name of the film is taken from a popular Russian folk song, Stenka Razin, that Alexandrov sang while rowing with Charlie Chaplin in San Francisco Bay.

Volga–Don Canal

The Russian classical composer Sergei Prokofiev wrote the tone poem The Meeting of the Volga and the Don to celebrate its completion.

Volga–Urals Military District

The Kazan Military District, with its headquarters in Kazan, took in the Orenburg, Kazan, and Ufa provinces, part of the Perm province, and the Ural and Turgay regions.

Volga, South Dakota

Later, the railroad assigned it the name "Volga" not after the Volga River, as some believe, but after the Iowa town of the same name.

Three communities are included in the Sioux Valley school system: Bruce, Sinai, and Volga.

Volgograd Bridge

Currently, a single span (a second is still under construction) connects Mamayev Kurgan on the right (western) bank of the Volga with the road to Krasnoslobodsk on a spit between the Volga and the Akhtuba.

Volgotanker

As oil refineries were built along the Volga and its tributaries (e.g. at Ufa, Kstovo, and Syzran), their products, too, were taken to the markets throughout Russia by Volgotanker.

White Sea – Baltic Canal

For example, in the summer of 2007, a large piece of equipment for Rosneft's Siberian Vankor Oil Field was delivered by the Amur-1516 from Dzerzhinsk on the Oka River, via the Volga–Baltic Waterway and the White Sea Canal to Arkhangelsk, and then from there by the ocean-going SA-15 class Arctic cargo ship Kapitan Danilkin to Dudinka on the River Yenisei.

Zavolzhye

Transvolga, a territory to the east of the Volga River in Russia

Zygmunt Szczęsny Feliński

The Tsar answered this letter by arresting Felinski and sending him in exile to the town of Yaroslavl in the Upper Volga (about 300 km to the NE of Moscow; where there was almost no Catholics).


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