Alarmingly low water levels have been reported the length of the Volga system -- in Tver, Kostroma, Tolyatti, Saratov, Astrakhan, and more. In Tolyatti, the water dipped to 49 meters, according to ...

Traffic on the Volga, Europe’s longest river, has rebounded sharply in the past two years, as we learned on a recent two-week cruise from Moscow to St. Petersburg.

The Volga is to Russia what the Mississippi is to America, or the Rhine to Western Europe. Rising near the Baltic, the Volga winds its way some 3,000km (1,864 miles) south-east until it empties into ...