the website we got it from:
http://www.volgawriter.com/VW%20Volga%20River.http
- Volga River is the longest river in Europe, about 2,300 miles (3,700 km). It originates at an elevation of only 740 feet (225 m) in the Valday Hills northwest of Moscow, connects with the Rybinsk Reservoir.
- The river heads east past Yaroslavl, Nizhny Novgorod and Kazan.
- The Moscow Canal connects it with the Moscow River and the Oka River.
- Numerous dams (bypassed by locks) provide hydroelectricity and water for irrigation. The river, known in Russian folklore as Mother Volga, has played an incalculable part in the life of the Russian people
- The volga river is AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



