The Volga river / Tim McNeese.
Series: Rivers in world historyPublication details: Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, ©2005.Description: 120 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0791082474
- 9780791082478
- 947/.4 22
- DK511.V65 M36 2005
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Children's Books | Academic Resource Center at Levitt Juvenile Books (MAIN level) | JUVE DK 511 .V65 M36 2005 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 146377 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 109-111) and index.
A nation's great river -- Early people of the Volga -- The Rus -- The Golden Horde -- The rise of the tsars -- Modernization along the Volga -- War along the Volga -- A trip down the Volga.
The Volga is Europe's longest river and the primary waterway of western Europe. From its source in the Valdai Hills, northwest of Moscow, the Volga flows east into the Rybinsk Reservoir, then turns southeastward on its way to the Caspian Sea. During its more than 2,000-mile-long trek, the Volga passes such notable Russian cities as Ulyanovsk, home, the home of V.I. Lenin (founder of the Russian Communist Party) Volgograd, which was devastated by German troops during World War II. Today, the Volga remains important to Russia as a source of hydro-electricity and a route for much of Russia's freight cargo.
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