At the end of the 15th century on the highway between Moscow and Novgorod in the place where now is a modern city, there was a village Valdaiskoye. Valdai from 1654 to 1764 years belonged to Iversk monastery. In 1770, the village got the status of town. The city of Valdai was the significant trade […]
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The Volga is the largest river in the European part of Russia and the largest river of Europe. Total length of the river Volga 3530 km, basin area of 1,360 thousand km Originates in the Valdai highlands at an altitude of 228 m, from a spring in the village Volgo-Upper reaches of the Tver region […]
The East European Plain one of the largest plains on our planet (second-large after the Amazonian plain in the Western America). It settles down in east part of Europe. As its most part is in limits of borders of the Russian Federation, the East European Plain sometimes call Russian. In northwest part it is limited […]