There's no magic in the Yangtse River any more than the Volga, Rhine or Hudson.
In Saratov, a town on the Volga dominated by the defence industry, the party was trounced in August.
Located on the Volga east of Moscow, Saransk is the capital of Mordovia.
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Lower down the range, there was the Volga, a mid-size saloon whose interior tended to fill with petrol fumes.
If Hitler had run out of fuel at the Dnieper he never would have made it to the Volga.
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Interfax reported the Volganeft was carrying fuel oil from the Russian city of Samarrah on the Volga River to an oil terminal in Ukraine.
The jet then burst into flames, with some of the wreckage and bodies falling in the nearby River Tunoshna, a tributary of the Volga.
Mr Berezovsky was kept out of the top spot for declared income by Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, president of Kalmykia, a pitifully poor republic on the Volga.
This summer FORBES reporters traveled 700 miles east of Moscow, to the place where Boris Berezovsky made his first millions: the Volga River town of Togliatti.
It noted that the recruitment drive got off to a slow start last year, with fewer than 1, 000 contract soldiers were recruited in the Volga Urals district.
The Samara region, an industrial hub on the banks of the Volga, has over 500 registered media, says Andrei Gavriushenko, the co-editor of Delo, a business magazine.
But in fact there was already a tiny settlement here - a small village of ethnic Germans exiled from their homes on the Volga river by Stalin.
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In the second world war the Germans who had lived in the Volga region for generations were moved to Central Asia (and their hard-working descendants are now moving to Germany).
In the second world war, Stalin decided that Russia's Germans were disloyal, even though they had lived by the Volga for 200 years, and had them transported to Kazakhstan and Kirgizstan.
These divisions, imperfect to start with, were subsequently blurred further by heavy Russian immigration and Stalin's eastward push in the 1930s to ethnic groups such as the Volga Germans and Tatars.
After Stalin died, his name was purged just as he had purged tens of millions of his victims, and the city on the Volga River was given the placid name of Volgograd.
The town's name had been changed from Boronsk to Marx to Pokrovsk and then to Engels the name of Marx's German collaborator being thought appropriate for the capital city of the Volga Germans.
The Volga Germans, who had settled in Russia more than 200 years ago, were deported to Kazakhstan and other parts of Central Asia in 1941 after the German invasion of the Soviet Union.
The Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations, or Emercom, published the full list of the 45 passengers on board a plane that exploded mid air and crashed in the Volga River on Wednesday afternoon in central Russia.
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German officers, soldiers and airmen, with very few exceptions, were happy about the extension of the frontiers of the Reich to the Volga, and many of them participated in the extreme brutality towards the Russians which characterised the whole invasion.
As he proceeds from Moscow to Murmansk, to the Volga, then across the Urals to Turochak on the edge of the Altai mountains and from there to Lake Baikal, Yakutsk and Kamchatka, Mr Montaigne discovers that as the Russian state disintegrates, more and more people are making a living from poaching.
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The majority of Kazakh Germans are descendants of the Germans who emigrated to the Russian Volga region some 200 years ago and were deported to Kazakhstan after Hitler declared war on the Soviet Union in 1941.
Although he had married a Volga German, his family was spared being transported en masse to Siberia or Kazakhstan along with the other Volga Germans.
One of Russia's most reform-minded governors, in Saratov on the River Volga, has discussed bringing in a regional coupon in effect, a currency.
During the second world war, the mix of nationalities was further increased when Volga Germans, Crimean Tatars, Chechens and others from the Caucasus were deported to Central Asia.
Strel plans to swim across the Grand Canyon , along 1, 000 miles of the freezing Mackenzie River in Canada, and the length of the 2, 000-mile Volga .
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