Too many dams have made Russia's most important river dysfunctional. Here's how the mother river can be fixed. You can find Dubna, a small town three hours away from Moscow by train, both on a map and ...

One of the most popular car brands in the USSR, Volga, was a favorite of Vladimir Putin and Yuri Gagarin. It even became a hero of dark urban legends in Eastern Europe. Designed by the Gorky ...

This photograph, taken in America in 1930, shows famous friends belting out a Russian song as loudly as they can - and the occasion would inspire a much-loved film. Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship ...

Sleek, low-slung and preferably black, it was once an object of desire for every Soviet bureaucrat. Now, more than half a century after it was first produced, Russia is stopping production of the ...

The World Cup will be the first time most westerners will be exposed to the great cities of the Volga – and their tense tug-of-war over identity The Alexander Nevsky is a dingy time machine that bears ...

Connections DP History Key Concept: Change. World history topic 10: Authoritarian states (20th century). HL option 4: History of Europe — Unit 12: Imperial Russia, revolution and the establishment of ...

The BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes is travelling in a Volga car along the Volga river to take a snapshot of life in Vladimir Putin's Russia, as the presidential election looms. This is his first piece, ...