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Volga

[ US /ˈvɑɫɡə/ ]
NOUN
  1. a Russian river; the longest river in Europe; flows into the Caspian Sea

How To Use Volga In A Sentence

  • The team produced six atoms of the element by smashing together isotopes of calcium and a radioactive element called berkelium in a particle accelerator about 75 miles north of Moscow on the Volga River, according to a paper that has been accepted for publication at the journal Physical Review Letters. NYT > Home Page
  • A.D.Fursaev studied the melliferous flora of the Volga flood plain.
  • Russia formed by the Volga basin in 1775 was described as "an asylum for malcontents and vagabonds of all kinds, ruined nobles, disfrocked monks, military deserters, fugitive serfs, highwaymen, and Volga pirates" -- disorderly elements which contributed greatly to the insurrection led by the Ural Cossacks in that year. [ Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography
  • In the 1930s, Josef Stalin harnessed nature with prison labor, constructing a canal to link Moscow to the Volga 80 miles north. Russia's Troubled Waters Flow With The Mighty Volga
  • Now we came to some fishing-huts, which were constructed on the frozen river, the traffic in the finny tribe which takes place in this part of Russia being very great, the Volga producing the sterlet Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers
  • The team produced six atoms of the element by smashing together isotopes of calcium and a radioactive element called berkelium in a particle accelerator about 75 miles north of Moscow on the Volga River, according to a paper that has been accepted for publication at the journal NYT > Home Page
  • The two pounds of caviar in each of the sevruga sturgeons are worth $40 wholesale on the Volga delta -- and up to $1,400 in New York or Paris. Bye, Beluga. Later, Sevruga.
  • The travellers bound to that bourne embark here on steamers that go down the Volga as far as its confluence with the Kama, a tributary stream, and thence ascend the Kama, which is navigable all the way to Perm. Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers
  • Volga, with all the countries there about adiacent. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
  • The most important rivers that empty into the Caspian Sea are the following: Volga, the Ural, the Tirek and the Kura.
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