The Volga is the longest river in Europe, and its catchment area is almost entirely inside Russia, though the longest river in Russia is the Ob–Irtysh river system. It belongs to the closed basin of the Caspian Sea, being the longest river to flow into a closed basin.Rising in the Valdai Hills 225 meters (738 ft) above sea level northwest of Moscow and about 320 kilometers (200 mi) …

Dec 15, 2021 · The Soviets turned the Volga River into a machine. Then the machine broke. ... German forces were closing in on Moscow and had planned to cross the frozen body of water. ... when Russians remember ...

Thousands of Germans immediately began making the journey to St. Petersburg and then to Moscow before finally working their way down the Volga River. From 1763 to 1773, the new German settlers established 104 “mother colonies” on both sides of the Volga River in an area that was larger than the state of Maryland, stretching from Saratov in ...

But, for the 600,000-odd Germans living in the Volga German ASSR, German was the language of local officials for the first time since 1881. As a result of the German invasion of the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941, Stalin decided to deport the German Russians to internal exile and forced labor in Siberia and Central Asia.

May 15, 2014 · In October 1918, the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic had been established, with its capital in the Volga port of Kosakenstadt, which the Soviets renamed Engels in 1931. According to the 1926 census, Germans constituted two thirds of the republic’s population, with Russians and Ukrainians forming nearly all the rest.

May 07, 2016 · Walter Warda, a soldier in the German army during World War II, was captured by the Russians and held in a Soviet POW camp until 1950, surviving typhoid fever and years of unspeakable brutality ...

Nov 08, 2021 · 1764-1768 German colonies are founded along the Volga River. Isolated colonies are founded in the Ukraine (including Belovesh) and around St. Petersburg. 1786 The first Black Sea colony, Alt Danzig, is founded. 1789-1790 German Mennonite colonies are founded in the Khortitsa district in the south Russian province of Tavrida.

Nov 05, 2021 · Maps of the 2019 Volga German Tours Sergej Koretnikov's maps of the Volga German Tours in 2019 included markers for the locations of former buildings and other landmarks in the colonies that were visited on the tour. Instead of just one pin for Yagodnaya Polyana, there are six – one for each of the following landmarks: the old cemetery, the ...