Connecting the Don and the Volga, two large rivers which at a certain point in the plain come closer than 43 miles, the canal is also called Lenin Canal. Because of its crucial role, Russia has ...

December 8, 2024: All is well on the Caspian Sea exit. In 2023 Russia brought in dredging equipment for a major, and overdue, dredging of the heavily used Volga-Don Canal that enables ships to get ...

Most of Russia’s 55,000 redeemed sinners sweated ... to officials of the Soviet of Moscow the newly completed Moscow-Volga Canal. Some of the sinners redeemed last week had worked also on ...

TASS/. Iran’s motor ship Nardiz has caught fire while sailing down the Volga-Caspian canal, the Russian Emergencies Ministry’s local department told TASS on Wednesday. Eleven people are ...

the tallest building in Russia. Russians by the thousands crowded the site of Kuibyshev dam last week for the opening of the power station. There were brass bands and the Volga People’s Choir ...