Talk:Volga

The Volga was also once called the Rha in anc times. Trekphiler 04:19, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

Cognates in Baltic languages?

'Rasa' in Lithuanian language means a dew and 'Vilga' means to moisten or to damp...and 'Rusenti, Rusne' means to flow (like Baltic tribe 'Prussians' comes from 'Parusne, prusne' and even a word to bath 'prausti' comes from this root). It's obvious that both Lithuania and Rus or Russia mean the people who lives on the banks of rivers ('Lietuva' directly means the river's channel and 'lietis' means to flow or to pour, and 'lietus' means the rain)

No sources are given. Possible original research. 193.111.133.174 (talk) 23:46, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

The Volga In Stalingrad

More information and pictures added about the volga's part in wwii. 76.179.164.79 (talk) 07:38, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Map

No map? Lotsofissues 01:17, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Yep, this definitely needs a map Fuzzbox 13:41, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

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Catherine and the Germans

The current comment about the Germans in the Volga River region implies that Catherine targeted them through her so called "invitation". In fact, the Manifesto is addressed to all foreigners. I have modified that sentence to reflect this.

Jerry Frank 205.206.215.65 17:07, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Volga

Volga is not wet, neither it is ancient sanskrit. Volga = Valge , means white river in finnic languages. Compare Moskva = black river in finnic.

You are wrong. The Volga river name has Baltic origin as majority Russia's western toponyms, Latvian valga 'moist, humid', the Baltic word ir borrowed into Finnic languages. The Moscow city name is also Baltic word, Latvian Maskava/Mazgava from mazgāt 'to wash' - the river, where to bathe and wash clothes. The river Oka - Latvian aka 'well', the river Yauza - Latvian auza 'oat', etc. Roberts7 21:54, 6 August 2008 (UTC); —Preceding unsigned comment added by Roberts7 (talk • contribs)

volume?

Why doesn't the introduction state that is has the biggest volume in Europe? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 209.206.165.20 (talk) 02:52, 29 January 2007 (UTC).

length?

2194 or 2294? seen both

Some additions

I checked also the Imperial Russia statistics from 1913 and Volga is there under the title WATERWAYS AND CANALS described in details.

Lenght 3.463 versts (3.695 km) of which lenght for floating (upper course) 114 versts (121.7 km), for shipping 3.349 versts (3.373.4 km), and for steamships 3.048 versts (3252.2 km). Volga basin: general lenght of rivers, lakes, and canals serving as ways of communications: Volga 76.883 versts (82.034 km) of which navigable 16.658 versts (17.774 km), lenght navigable on rafts 38.194 versts (40.753 km), navigable for steamers 13.405 versts (14.303 km).

Now lenght is now given as 3694 km (2295.85 miles) from its spring located near old village church of Volgoverhovje in Valdai hills to its main source´s mouth at Caspian Sea.

Flows to Lake Sterzh which forms with Lake Vselug and Lake Peno 206 metre a.s.l. the upper part of Volga water reservoir above the Peno settlement where Velikije Luki - Bologoje railway line crosses Volga by railway bridge. The lower Volga water reservoir continues to Selishtshe dam. Below the Selishtshe dam at Skakulino Soblago - Torzhok railway line crosses Volga in railway bridge. At Selizharevo River Selizharovka from Lake Seliger is the first notable tributary. Near Mihalevo village stream surface is 184 metre a.s.l. little more down stream near Petrushtshevo village the surface is 176 metre a.s.l. Just down of the confluence of its tributary Tudovka River on the rapid the surface is 170 metre a.s.l. Volga flows through the first notable town Rzhev where the third railway line, the Lihoslavl - Rzhev - Vjazma railway crosses Volga in railway bridge. Below Staritsa near Matjukovo village the surfage is 133 metre a.s.l. Nera Novokurovo village is the first anchorage place where the surface is 128 metre a.s.l. Next anchorage place is Besjedy where the surface is 125 metre a.s.l. Above Tver there are anchogage places at Putulovo, Datshnyj and Krasnovo. At Tver the St. Petersburg - Moscow main railway line crosses Volga in railway bridge. From the north in the centre of Tver important tributary River Tversta have its confluence with Volga. Just below Tver at Pasynkovo river harbour the surface is 124 metre a.s.l. Usually this point is given as the most northern navigable point at Volga (for Ocean going merchant vehicles). The Ivanov water reservoir, 124 metre a.s.l. starts from Gorodnja anchorage place and continues to Dubna dam. This was formely known as Moscow Inland Sea. The Volga - Moscow Canal starts from Dubna. Down of Dubna the surface is 113 metre a.s.l. to Uglitsh dam and forms Uglitsh water reservoir.

All these places have also earlier Karelian names and to this point Volga was known as Valgia (White) River. In Tver (Tihvi > Tihveri > Tjhverj > Tver) Oblast Valgia streams through former lands of Valdai Karelians, Rzhev ( Wild Forest Karelians) and Tver Karelians who settled these areas before the Slavic immigration from the Ilmajärvi (Ilmen Lake) direction.

JN

Volga River Steamers

Formerly tens of thousands of burlaki, or Volga boatmen, were employed in dragging boats up the Volga and its tributaries, but this method of traction has disappeared unless from a few of the tributaries. Horses are still extensively used along the three canal systems . The first steamer "Volga" visited to Samara in 1846. In 1858, the Nizhny Novgorod Machine Factory produced the first Russian steam dredger. The amount of suspended matter brought down by erosion is correspondingly great . All along its course the Volga is eroding and destroying its banks with great rapidity; towns and loading ports have constantly to be shifted farther back .

The first large steamers of the American type were built in 1872 . Thousands of steamers are now employed in the traffic, to say nothing of smaller boats and rafts . Many of the steamers use as fuel mazut or petroleum refuse . Large numbers of the boats and rafts are broken up after a single voyage . In 1870, the first Russian open hearth furnace was built Nizhny Novagrad at the factory, followed by a two-decked steamship Perevorot just a year later. In 1913, it produced a dry bulk cargo ship Danilikha. The factory built 489 ships between 1849 and 1918.

The largest fleet of any of Soviet rivers is that on the Volga, where in 1926 there were 1604 steamers with indicated horse power of 300595.The Internal Waterways Steamship Co. had at its disposal on January 1, 1927, 2,020 steamers The Batashevs’ «steamers» were on a par with the world-famous ones produced by Berdov, and were installed on the majority of Volga steamships.

In 1913 the Romanovs boarded the steamer Mezhen at Nizhniy Novgorod to sail down the Volga river for their 500th Anniversary tour.

Other steamers were the 'Lastochka' or swallow. Maxim Gorky, the writer, worked as a cook on a Volga steamer in his youth and thus the Volga river enters Russian literature: stories where A young officer encounters a beautiful stranger on board a Volga steamer.

During the Seige of Leningrad, one indomitable tug crossed the river towing barges of men, food and ammunition, constantly under the the fire of the German guns. The tug made many journeys until it was too damaged to continue. In the post=war years, new steamers of the Josef Stalin type were built and worked the river. A few survive. Today, the river is worked by diesel cruise boats and tugs. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.81.76.183 (talk) 15:27, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

Environmental health of the Volga river

What? nothing about the current health of the river? Nothing is known? sewage? Fish? Industry? No known controversy on pollution?

mother

the river is sometimes referred to as "mother Volga" you should make it so that this article to appear in the search when someone tired to search for it