Too many dams have made Russia's most important river dysfunctional. Here's how the mother river can be fixed. You can find Dubna, a small town three hours away from Moscow by train, both on a map and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the central Russian city of Ulyanovsk, bathers at a popular municipal beach must traipse more than 200 meters to reach the waters of the Kuibyshev Reservoir. Near Kazan, the capital of Russia's ...

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, ...

A 1960s Russian sedan is not something we would have expected to find deep in the woods in upstate New York, but, to be honest, there are not that many places in North America where we would have ...

Moscow — Russian authorities said Tuesday that they have detained a long-wanted serial killer, known as the "Volga maniac," suspected of murdering at least 26 elderly women between 2011 and 2012. The ...

In a timeless, abundant land of woods, plains and water, a gruff farmer summons a timid teacher to instruct his daughter. During their lessons, a shy friendship blossoms. When the farmer takes his ...

Imagine taking two beat-up cars, one a Soviet-era relic, the other a wrecked BMW, and reshaping them into a street rod that channels the look of a million-dollar hypercar. Sounds impossible, right?