In the central Russian city of Ulyanovsk, bathers at a popular municipal beach must traipse more than 200 meters to reach the waters of the Kuibyshev Reservoir. Near Kazan, the capital of Russia's ...

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VOLGOGRAD, Russia — As she rode a ferry past golden birch forests to her dacha, Galina Kudryavtseva looked at the waters of the mighty Volga River with the love of a child for her mother. “Life ...

Climb Levitan’s Hill Visit one of the art galleries and maybe even buy a picture by a local artist Try the beer and traditional delicacies at the Plyos beer house inside an 18th-century building Walk ...

Russian state register shows sanctioned cargo carrier's Moscow division, AirBridgeCargo and majority of Atran now owned by ...

The BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes is travelling in a Volga car along the Volga river to take a snapshot of life in Vladimir Putin's Russia, as the presidential election looms. This is his first piece, ...

First of five parts In Russian folklore, the Volga River is mother and mistress, comrade and beloved companion and subject of tall tales. For today's Russia, it remains all of the above and an ...