Editor’s Note: The Astana Times continues its Forgotten Cities of the Silk Road series, exploring Kazakhstan’s tentative ...

The 2,300-mile Mother Volga, a river of history, folklore, song and art, is far more than Europe’s longest waterway. Like the Mississippi in America, it defines Russia’s spiritual heartland.

From the monasteries immersed in the Taiga forests, to the cities suspended between ancient and modern—the journey across the Volga River recounts ...

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 2,300-mile Volga River is Russia's pride and lifeblood. It provides water, power and transport and has played a key role in Russia's history. Now, in post-Soviet times, the river and its ...

A medieval shipwreck has been discovered in the depths of Russia’s Volga River. Workers from the Holy Mother of God's Kazan monastery in the village of Vinnovka discovered the wreck in the ...

Although river cruises between Moscow and St Petersburg feature the Volga, they sail only a short stretch of it, in addition to the Moscow Canal, Volga-Baltic Waterway, Svir and Neva rivers and ...

Assessing damage of oil spill along key waterway may take years, MARK MacKINNON reports ...