Volga

Volga (Волга)
River
The Volga at Ulyanovsk
Kintra	Roushie
Tributaries
- left	Kama River
- right	Oka River
Cities	Astrakhan, Volgograd, Saratov, Samara, Kazan, Ulyanovsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Yaroslavl, Tver
Source
- location	Valdai Hills, Tver Oblast
- elevation	225 m (738 ft)
Mouth	Caspian Sea
- elevation	-28 m (-92 ft)
- coordinates	45°50′30″N 47°58′17″E
Length	3,692 km (2,294 mi)
Basin	1,380,000 km2 (532,821 sq mi)
Discharge	for Astrakhan
- average	8,060 m3/s (284,636 cu ft/s)
Map o the Volga wattershed

The Volga (Roushie: Во́лга; IPA: [ˈvolɡə] ( listen)) is the langest river in Europe; it is Europe's lairgest river in terms o dischairge an wattershed an aw. It flows throu central Russia, an is widely viewed as the naitional river o Roushie. Eleiven o the twinty lairgest ceeties o Roushie, includin the caipital, Moscow, are situatit in the Volga's drainage basin. Some o the lairgest reservoirs in the warld can be foond alang the Volga. The river haes a seembolic meanin in Roushie cultur an is aften referred tae as Volga-Matushka (Mither Volga) in Roushie leeteratur an fowklear.

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Volga

• Information and a map of the Volga's watershed
• Volga Delta from Space
• Photos about the Volga River (landscapes, history, people)
• Photos of the Volga coasts
• "CABRI-Volga": EU-Russian project on environmental risk management in the Volga Basin
• Geographic data relatit tae Volga at OpenStreetMap