From the monasteries immersed in the Taiga forests, to the cities suspended between ancient and modern—the journey across the Volga River recounts the Russian spirit. The Volga is one of the largest ...

Too many dams have made Russia's most important river dysfunctional. Here's how the mother river can be fixed. You can find Dubna, a small town three hours away from Moscow by train, both on a map and ...

One of the most popular car brands in the USSR, Volga, was a favorite of Vladimir Putin and Yuri Gagarin. It even became a hero of dark urban legends in Eastern Europe. Designed by the Gorky ...

In a timeless, abundant land of woods, plains and water, a gruff farmer summons a timid teacher to instruct his daughter. During their lessons, a shy friendship blossoms. When the farmer takes his ...

Sleek, low-slung and preferably black, it was once an object of desire for every Soviet bureaucrat. Now, more than half a century after it was first produced, Russia is stopping production of the ...

En route to a wedding in Astrakhan, writer Thom Wheeler traced the length of the 2,200-mile Volga river, by foot, boat, bus and train The Volga river slices through the heartland of Russia and covers ...

In the central Russian city of Ulyanovsk, bathers at a popular municipal beach must traipse more than 200 meters to reach the waters of the Kuibyshev Reservoir. Near Kazan, the capital of Russia's ...

A 1960s Russian sedan is not something we would have expected to find deep in the woods in upstate New York, but, to be honest, there are not that many places in North America where we would have ...

Astrakhan is the last major city downstream on the Volga River, on the edge of a delta reaching into the Caspian Sea. This is the spawning ground for beluga and its cousin, the highly prized Caspian ...

The BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes is travelling in a Volga car along the Volga river to take a snapshot of life in Vladimir Putin's Russia, as the presidential election looms. This is his first piece, ...