Volga region

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The Volga region (

The Volga region is culturally separated into three sections:

• ■Upper Volga Region - from the Volga River's
  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 geographic boundaries of the region are vague, and the term "Volga region" is used to refer primarily to the Middle and Lower sections, which are included in the

Geography

The Volga Region is almost entirely within the

According to different sources, the region was mainly inhabited by Slavic, Turkic and Viking people.[1]^[2] Povolzhye played an important part of the emergence of the Rus' Khaganate. The Volga River was used mainly by traders from the Oriental and Viking world.^[3]

Population

The region is home to a large portion of Russia's population, with the major cities of

• Volga economic region
• Volga Federal District
• Povolzhye famine
• Samara Bend
• Volga Germans

References

55°00′00″N 50°00′00″E / 55.0000°N 50.0000°E / 55.0000; 50.0000

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