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Volga River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Nerl River (Volga) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Nerl River (Russian: ) is a river in the Yaroslavl and Tver Oblasts in Russia, a right tributary of the Volga River. The length of the river is 112 km (69 miles). The area of its basin is 3,270 ...
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VOLGA (known to the Tatars as Etil, Jill or Atel; to the Finnish tribes as Rau, and to the ancients as Rha and Oarus) ... north, is the most important . The next great tributary is the Oka, which comes from the south-west after having traversed, on its course of 950 m., all the Great See also:
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After being joined by other tributaries, the Volga flows through the Rybinsk reservoir. It is then joined by the Oka River, after which it almost doubles in size. After it is joined by its major tributary, the Kama, the river flows southward along the foot of the Volga Hills.
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on Rybinsk Reservoir (reservoir, Russia), large artificial body of water on the upper Volga River, northwestern Russia, formed by two dams on the Volga and its tributary, the Sheksna. ... large artificial body of water on the upper Volga River, northwestern Russia, formed by two dams...
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on Volga River (river, Russia), river of Europe, the continent’s longest, and the principal waterway of western Russia and the historic cradle of the Russian state. ... river, RussiaRussian Volga, ancient (Greek) Ra or (Tatar) Itil or Etil...
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