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Volga River State Recreation Area is a 5,700-acre (2,300 ha) state recreation area in Fayette County, Iowa, United States, near the city of Fayette. The park is located in a forested and hilly region along the Volga River and also includes the 138-acre (56 ha) Frog Hollow Lake. The recreation area is a popular site for boating and fishing.
Upper Volga Region – from the Volga River's source in Tver Oblast to the mouth of the Oka River in Nizhny Novgorod; Middle Volga Region – from the mouth of the Oka River to the mouth of the Kama River south of Kazan; Lower Volga Region – from the mouth of the Kama River to the Volga Delta in the Caspian Sea, in Astrakhan Oblast.
The Volga is the longest river in Europe, and its catchment area is almost entirely inside Russia, though the longest river in Russia is the Ob–Irtysh river system. [3] It belongs to the closed basin of the Caspian Sea, being the longest river to flow into a closed basin. The source of the Volga lies in the village of Volgoverkhov'e in Tver ...
Volga-Kama Reserve is located in the East European forest steppe ecoregion, which is a transition zone between the broadleaf forests of the north and the grasslands to the south. This ecoregion is characterized by a mosaic of forests, steppe, and riverine wetlands.
The Middle Volga Integrated Biosphere Reserve is a specially protected natural area located in the Samara Oblast in Russia. Established in 2006, it is a combination of the Zhiguli Nature Reserve and the Samarskaya Luka National Park , making it the first integrated biosphere reserve in Russia.
The East European forest steppe ecoregion (WWF ID: PA0419) is a patchwork of broadleaf forest stands and grasslands (steppe) that stretches 2,100 km across Eastern Europe from the Ural Mountains in Ural, through Povolzhye, Central Russia to the middle of Ukraine.
The Volga Upland, also known as the Volga Uplands, Volga Hills, [2] or Volga Plateau (Russian: Приволжская возвышенность, romanized: Privolzhskaya vozvyshennost'), is a vast region of the East European Plain in the European part of Russia that lies west of the Volga River and east of the Central Russian Upland. [3]
Excavated remains show that the morphological characteristics of the people of the Volosovo culture are craniologically related to the Lapponoid group. [10] The stone and ceramic artifacts that are used to describe the Volosovo culture were from the semi subterranean dwellings, which are often situated in river floors and within the area of lakes. [3]