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Ulyanovsk, [a] known as Simbirsk [b] until 1924, is a city and the administrative center of Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Volga River 705 kilometers (438 mi) east of Moscow. Ulyanovsk has been the only Russian UNESCO City of Literature since 2015.
The Sviyaga (Russian: Свияга; Tatar: Зөя; Chuvash: Сĕве, Sĕve) is a river in the Ulyanovsk Oblast and Tatarstan, a right tributary of the Volga. [1] It is 375 kilometres (233 mi) long, and its drainage basin covers 16,700 square kilometres (6,400 sq mi). [2]
The Volga and its tributaries form the Volga river system, which flows through an area of about 1,350,000 square kilometres (521,238 square miles) in the most heavily populated part of Russia. [3] The Volga Delta has a length of about 160 kilometres (99 miles) and includes as many as 500 channels and smaller rivers.
The first settlements of Middle Volga people were established in this area of Volga more than 100,000 years ago, according to archaeological science. The presence of human groups in the Ulyanovsk Volga region in the Paleolithic show separate parking [clarification needed] and location of stone tools and bones found in the estuary.
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In Orenburg, a city with a population of 550,000 about 1,200 km (750 miles) east of Moscow, hundreds of homes were flooded and at least 7,700 people were evacuated as the Ural river rose swiftly ...
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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.