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Volga River

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Volga River

River, western Russia. Europe's longest river and the principal waterway of western Russia, it rises in the Valdai Hills northwest of Moscow and flows 2,193 mi (3,530 km) southeastward to empty into the Caspian Sea. It is used for power production, irrigation, flood control, and transportation. The river has played an important part in the life of the Russian people, and in Russian folklore it is characteristically named “Mother Volga.”



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Kincaid has been involved in the People to People International cultural exchange program for two years, and in Russia will visit orphanages, children's hospitals and schools, and help clean the banks of the Volga River.
Sporadic interception of enemy radio exchanges was practiced by the Volga Flotilla, which began to be formed in spring 1918 on the basis of odd detachments of armed tug steamers and barges whose crews were mostly made up of former Baltic Fleet sailors and Volga river sailors.
Other districts and territories where opisthorchiasis is endemic include the Yekaterinburg (formally Sverdlovsk) District (13), Altai territory, Voronezh District (14), Volga River valley (15) and Archangelsk District in western Russia, and the Angara River (16), Krasnoyarsk territory, and Irkutsk District in eastern Siberia (2).
 
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