Volga needs no introduction. But if you need to remind about it, then here is just a little of what inextricably connects it with Russia: - History: from the Khazars and the Golden Horde to the campaigns of Ivan the Terrible and the Battle of Stalingrad. From the peasant wars of Razin and Pugachev to the Civil and deportation of peoples. - Economy: from the Nizhny Novgorod fair to the Astrakhan trading farmsteads of Armenians, Persians and Indians. - Technologies: from haulers and steamboats to the SPS cascade. Almost everyone has their own associations with the Volga, but whatever they are, it is one of those symbols of the country, without which Russia is absolutely impossible to imagine.