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Notable rivers of Russia in Europe are the Volga (which is the longest river in Europe), Pechora, Don, Kama, Oka and the Northern Dvina, while several other rivers originate in Russia but flow into other countries, such as the Dnieper (flowing through Russia, then Belarus and Ukraine and into the Black Sea) and the Western Dvina (flowing ...
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This category lists the rivers in Russia. For a structured list see List of rivers of Russia. Subcategories. This category has the following 12 subcategories, out of ...
The Volga, widely seen as Russia's national river due to its historical and cultural importance, is the longest river in Europe, [23] it rises in the Valdai Hills west of Moscow and meandering southeastward for 3,510 kilometres (2,180 mi) before emptying into the Caspian Sea. Altogether, the Volga system drains about 1.4 million square ...
The Volga is the longest river in Europe, and its catchment area is almost entirely inside Russia, though the longest river in Russia is the Ob–Irtysh river system. [3] It belongs to the closed basin of the Caspian Sea, being the longest river to flow into a closed basin. The source of the Volga lies in the village of Volgoverkhov'e in Tver ...
The east Slavic tribe of the Antes inhabited the Don and other areas of Southern and Central Russia. [5] [6] The area around the Don was influenced by the Byzantine Empire because the river was important for traders from Byzantium. [7] In antiquity, the river was viewed as the border between Europe and Asia by some ancient Greek geographers.
Moskva River in Kolomna, just upstream from its confluence with the Oka River Moskva River in central Moscow, view towards the Kremlin. The river is 473 km (294 mi) long (or 502 km (312 mi)), [10] and the area of its drainage basin is 17,600 km 2 (6,800 sq mi). [11] It has a vertical drop of 155 m (509 ft) (long-term average).
The Oka (UK: / ˈ ɒ k ə /, US: / ˈ oʊ k ə /; Russian: Ока IPA:) is a river in central Russia, the largest right tributary of the Volga.It flows through the regions of Oryol, Tula, Kaluga, Moscow, Ryazan, Vladimir and Nizhny Novgorod and is navigable over a large part of its total length, as far upstream as the town of Kaluga.