Into what sea does the Volga River flow?
Volga River 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". Presently the Mari, another Uralic group, call the river "Jul" (), meaning "way" in Tatar. Formerly, they called the river "Volgydo", a borrowing from Old East Slavic. The Volga is the longest river in Europe. 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 above sea level northwest of Moscow and about southeast of Saint Petersburg, the Volga heads east
Steamboats on the Volga River went into hydrofoils and diesel steamers A few steamers have survived. Today, the river is worked by diesel cruise boats and tugs. In 1913, the Romanovs boarded the steamer "Mezhen" at Nizhny Novgorod to sail down the Volga river for their 500th Anniversary tour. Maxim Gorky, the writer, worked as a cook on a Volga steamer in his youth and thus the Volga river enters Russian literature: stories where a young officer encounters a beautiful stranger on board a Volga steamer. In Russian life, the Volga is like the sky and air. We breathe the Volga, we are enrapt with