Volga+River

[|Volga River] By Evan Sullivan This is a picture of the Volga River, the longest/ biggest river in Russia. This river helps people in many ways like travel,trade, exporting, and inporting. Rising in the Valdai Hills 225 m (740 ft) above sea level north-west of Moscow and about 320 kilometres south-east of Saint Petersburg, the Volga heads east past Tver', Dubna, Yaroslavl, Nizhny Novgorod and Kazan (Qazan). From there it turns south, flows past Tolyatti, Samara and Volgograd, and discharges into the Caspian Sea below Astrakhan at 28 metres below sea level. The Volga River is about 2,300 miles and it originates at an elevation of only 740 feet.

Locations- The __absolute location__ of the Volga River is Latitude:N 47(degrees) 29' 46.5281 Longitude:E 46(degrees) 15' 2.3047. The relative location of the Volga River is Interesting facts about the Volga River Delta- The Volga Delta is the largest inland river delta in Europe. The Volga River starts in the Valday Hills of northwestern Russia and flows 3,700km (2,300 miles). The delta covers an area of 27,224km² and is160km across. The delta is in the arid climate zone, with very little rainfall, less than 3cm annually. Water entering the Volga delta separates into more than 500 channels, arms, and rivulets and spreads out onto the floodplain forming shallow lakes. These flows also carry many nutrients from upstream into the delta making it one of the world's most productive areas for fish.The delta also contains oil deposits where millennia of carbon-rich mud is piled until pressure and heat converted the organic material in the lowest layers into petroleum.