Longest European river

Usage examples of volga.

The Huns, with their flocks and herds, their wives and children, their dependents and allies, were transported to the west of the Volga, and they boldly advanced to invade the country of the Alani, a pastoral people, who occupied, or wasted, an extensive tract of the deserts of Scythia.

The double river-systems of the Volga and Kama, the Obi and Irtish, the Angara and Yenisei, the Lena and Vitim on the Arctic slope, the Amur and Sungari on the Pacific slope, are instances.

When I lived on the Volga they knew more about sugar beets than anyone.

Kipzak, extends on either side of the Volga, in a boundless space towards the Jaik and Borysthenes, and is supposed to contain the primitive name and nation of the Cossacks.

Volga steamer, with the difference that they would find not a single kopek hidden on my person.

Volga at Stalingrad, wheeling south and east to Astrakhan, south into the Kalmyk steppe, taking Maikop and Krasnodar, on to the Kuban.

Bonfires were lighted, and the air smelled of resinous split boards, makhorka, dried fish dumped in stacks at the nearby docks, and the fresh wind of the Volga.

But Orenburg was also the last outpost of the Imperial state - a fortress to defend the Russian farmers on the Volga steppelands from the nomadic tribes, the Nogai and the Bashkirs, the Kalmyks and Kirghiz, who roamed the arid steppes on its eastern side.

Their Tatar names are still marked on maps of southern Russia and the Volga lands: Penza, Chembar, Ardym, Anybei, Kevda, Ardatov and Alatyr.

Once he figured that out, everything snapped into focus, he understood which direction he was looking in, recognized the shapes of the Volga Hotel and the glassfront of the big British Airways office on the Circus, the entrances to the underground bazaar.

Fishing is always made by artels in the Ural, the Volga, and all the lakes of Northern Russia.

In a distant province of Russia at first, then on the banks of the Volga, and finally in Moscow itself, the old cry was raised, the hideous mediaeval charge revived, and the standard of persecution unfurled against the Jews.

Theophanes places the old Bulgaria on the banks of the Atell or Volga.

Theophanes places the old Bulgaria on the banks of the Atell or Volga.

Barges chained down the Volga toward the sea, barges and pushers lined the river dockage past the plantations.