This river is the namesake of a group of ethnic Germans whom Catherine the Great invited to settle along its banks in the late 1700s.
This river is the namesake of a group of ethnic Germans whom Catherine the Great invited to settle along its banks in the late 1700s. The Mariinsk Canal system connects this river to the Baltic Sea, and a famous song beginning "Eh, ukhnyem!" is named for boatmen who pulled barges on this river. Flowing through Nizhniy Novgorod and Samara, this river's canal to the Don provides the most direct connection between the Sea of Azov (AH-soff) and the world's largest lake. FTP, name this river which drains most of western Russia into the Caspian Sea, the longest river in Europe and the namesake of a city once called Stalingrad.
This river is the namesake of a group of ethnic Germans whom Catherine the Great invited to settle along its banks in the late 1700s.
Volga River