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weve Vols iver Whipede Volga River From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Volga River - Wikipedia ‘The Volga (Russian: Béara; IPA: ['volga]) is in Europe; it is also Europe's largest river in. SHOWITED ARTICLES and watershed. It flows through central Russi Caspian Sea, and is widely viewed as the nati pag to Russia Unsorted Eleven of the twenty largest cities of Russia, capital, Moscow, are in the Volga's watershed Some of the largest reservoirs in the world ca the Volga. The river has a symbolic meaning’ Highlighteris OFF and is often referred to as Bonra-maryunxa Vo, (Mother Volga) in Russian literature and folklore. Contents Country #1 Nomenclature Tributaries #2 Description = left = 2.1 Confluences (downstream to upstream) «right = 2.2 Reservoirs (downstream to upstream) Cities = 2.3 Human history = 2.3.1 20th-century conflict = 3 Ethnic groups = 4 Navigation Source = 5 Satellite imagery = location + 6 See also = elevation « 7 References = coordinates « 8 External links Mouth = elevation = coordinates Nomenclature Length Basin The Russian hydronym Volga (Boxra) derives from Proto- Discharge Slavic *vdlga "wetness, moisture”, which is preserved in many _ average Slavic languages, including Ukrainian voléha (nostra) "moisture", Russian vlaga (nara) "moisture", Bulgarian viaga (snara) "moisture", Czech vidha "dampness", Serbian vliga "moisture", and Slovene viaga "moisture" among others.|?] The Slavic name is a loan translation of earlier Scythian R@ (Pa) "Volga",1 literally "wetness", cognate with Avestan Raha "mythical stream" (also compare the derivation Sogdian r’k "vein, blood vessel" (*raha-ka),!4I Persian S$ rag pion wikipedia orgiwikiVelga_ River erseE Help? The Volga at Ulyanovsk Russia Kama Oka Astrakhan, Volgograd, Saratov, Samara, Ulyanovsk, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Yaroslavl, Tver Valdai Hills, Tver Oblast 225 m (738 ft) STON 32°36E Caspian Sea 28 m (92) 45°S0'N A7°S8E I! 3,692 km (2,294 mi) 1,380,000 km? (532,821 sq mi) for Astrakhan 8,060 m/s (284,636 cu it's) w

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