One of the most popular car brands in the USSR, Volga, was a favorite of Vladimir Putin and Yuri Gagarin. It even became a hero of dark urban legends in Eastern Europe. Designed by the Gorky ...
This photograph, taken in America in 1930, shows famous friends belting out a Russian song as loudly as they can - and the occasion would inspire a much-loved film. Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship ...
August was slipping away, and with it Germany’s chance of a decisive victory. There was still time, but the time grew shorter. German gains had been great—Rostov, the last of the Ukraine, the northern ...
Evgeny Solodilin, the former CEO of Zhukovsky Airport and Red Wings Airline, intends to buy out the entire Volga-Dnepr cargo group. The newspaper Kommersant writes about this. Evraz Avia Service LLC ...
The BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes is travelling in a Volga car along the Volga river to take a snapshot of life in Vladimir Putin's Russia, as the presidential election looms. This is his first piece, ...
En route to a wedding in Astrakhan, writer Thom Wheeler traced the length of the 2,200-mile Volga river, by foot, boat, bus and train The Volga river slices through the heartland of Russia and covers ...
The news that all fans of Russian cars were dreading has been confirmed. Oleg Deripaska, the Russian tycoon who controls the Gorkovsky Avtomobilny Zavod (GAZ), has declared that production of the ...
“We’re not Russians! Never let anyone label us that way. Just because a chicken lays an egg in an oven, that doesn’t make the egg a biscuit.” I remember hearing those words as a child. My mother went ...