Presently the Mari, another Uralic group, call the river Jul ( Юл), meaning "way" in Tatar. In Asia the river was known by its other Turkic name Sarı-su "yellow water", but the Oirats also used their own name, Ijil mörön or "adaptation river". The name Indyl ( Indɨl) is used in the Cherkess language. Thus, a left tributary to the Kama was named the Aq Itil "White Itil" which unites with the Kara Itil "Black Itil" at the modern city of Ufa. The Turkic peoples associated the Itil's origin with the Kama. Perhaps this form has a connection with the hydronym Irtesh. The Turkic names go back to the ancient Turkic form “ Etil/ Ertil”, the origin and meaning of which are not clear. In modern Turkic languages, the Volga is known as İdel ( Идел) in Tatar, Atăl ( Атӑл) in Chuvash, Idhel in Bashkir, Edil in Kazakh, and İdil in Turkish. The Turkic peoples living along the river formerly referred to it as Itil or Atil. Araxes ( Ancient Greek: Αραξης Araxēs Latin: Araxes).Oarus ( Ancient Greek: Οαρος Oaros Latin: Oarus), which was derived from Scythian *Varu, meaning "Broad." The ancient Greek name of the Dnieper river, Borysthenes ( Βορυσθενης Borusthenēs Latin: Borysthenes), was also connected to this term since its original Scythian form was *Varustāna, meaning "having broad space.".The Greek author Hērodotos of Halikarnāssos recorded two more ancient Iranic names of the Volga: The Scythian name survives in modern Moksha Rav ( Рав). This is related to the Avestan name for the river Raŋhā ( ?????) (derived from Proto-Indo-European *h1res- or *h1ers-, "wet" or "moisture"), or "mythical stream" (also compare the derivation Sogdian rʾk ( ???) "vein, blood vessel" (from Old Iranian *raha-ka), Persian رگ rag "vein" and Vedic Sanskrit rasā́ ( रसा) "dew, liquid, juice mythical river"). The Scythian name for the Volga was Rahā, literally meaning "wetness".
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The Russian hydronym Volga ( Волга) derives from Proto-Slavic * vòlga "wetness, moisture", which is preserved in many Slavic languages, vlaga ( влага) "moisture", Bulgarian vlaga ( влага) "moisture", Czech vláha "dampness", Serbo-Croatian: vlaga ( влага) "moisture", Slovene vlaga "moisture", Polish wilgoć "moisture" and Macedonian vlaga ( влага) "moisture", among others. View of the Volga Delta from the International Space Station The river has a symbolic meaning in Russian culture – Russian literature and folklore often refer to it as Волга-матушка Volga-Matushka (Mother Volga). Some of the largest reservoirs in the world are located along the Volga River.
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Four of the ten largest cities of Russia, including the nation's capital, Moscow, are located in the Volga's drainage basin. The river flows in Russia through forests, forest steppes and steppes. Historically, the river served as an important meeting place of various Eurasian civilizations. The hypothetical old Russian state, the Rus' Khaganate, arose along the Volga between the late-8th and mid-9th centuries AD. It is widely regarded as the national river of Russia.
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It is also Europe's largest river in terms of average discharge at delta 8,000 m 3/s (280,000 cu ft/s) - 8,500 m 3/s (300,000 cu ft/s) and of drainage basin. Situated in Russia, it flows through Central Russia to Southern Russia and into the Caspian Sea. The Volga ( / ˈ v ɒ l ɡ ə, ˈ v oʊ l ɡ ə/ Russian: Во́лга) is the longest river in Europe. The Yamnaya culture, named for its characteristic burials in rectangular pits (yama is Russian for pit) beneath kurgans or mounds, is found throughout the steppe north of the Caspian and Black seas and west of the Ural River.Astrakhan (Basin size: 1,391,271.8 km 2 (537,173.0 sq mi)Ĩ,103.078 m 3/s (286,157.5 cu ft/s) Volga Delta: 8,110.544 m 3/s (286,421.2 cu ft/s) The ecoregion stretches from the Ural River and the border of the Caspian lowland up to east border of the Kazakh melkosopochnik.īefore it was brought into cultivation largely in the 1950s, this region was a continuous belt stretching across Central Asia from the Ural River in the west to the Altai foothills in the east (approximately along 48° to 50°North (N)). GeographyLocation: Central Asia, northwest of China a small portion west of the Ural River in eastern-most Europe KazakhstanCentral Asia, northwest of China a small portion west of the Ural River in eastern-most Europe Traces of the boom years linger in Magnitogorsk, a steel town of nearly 500,000 straddling the Ural River, about 900 miles east of Moscow.