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The Volga delta has grown significantly in the 20th century because of changes in the level of the Caspian Sea. In 1880, the delta had an area of 3,222 km 2 (1,244 sq mi). Today the Volga Delta covers an area of 27,224 km 2 (10,511 sq mi) and is approximately 160 km (100 mi) across. It has a classical "delta pattern".
The deluge of meltwater overwhelmed scores of settlements in Russia's Ural Mountains, Siberia, Volga and areas of Kazakhstan after major rivers such as the Ural, which flows into the Caspian, rose ...
Lower Volga Region – from the mouth of the Kama River to the Volga Delta in the Caspian Sea, in Astrakhan Oblast. The geographic boundaries of the region are vague, and the term Volga region is used to refer primarily to the Middle and Lower sections, which are included in the Volga Federal District and Volga economic region.
The Volga and its tributaries form the Volga river system, which flows through an area of about 1,350,000 square kilometres (521,238 square miles) in the most heavily populated part of Russia. [3] The Volga Delta has a length of about 160 kilometres (99 miles) and includes as many as 500 channels and smaller rivers.
The worst hit areas in Russia are just to the south of the Ural Mountains, about 1,200 km (750 miles) east of Moscow. Emergencies have been declared in the Orenburg and Kurgan regions of the Urals ...
As of March 2013 there were 35 Ramsar sites in Russia, totalling an area of 103,237.67 km 2. [ 1 ] The first Russian sites registered in the Ramsar Convention, on 11 October 1976 (during the Soviet era ), were Kandalaksha Bay Lake Khanka and the Volga River delta .
Astrakhan Nature Reserve (Russian: Астраханский заповедник) (also Astrakhanskiy) is a Russian 'zapovednik' (strict nature reserve) covering an area including the islands and wetlands of the Volga Delta, where the Volga River enters the northwest sector of the Caspian Sea.
In a town without basements, residents of Ukraine's "Venice" on the Danube have no way to hide underground from the increasingly frequent Russian drone attacks on the country's river and deep sea ...