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Russian river cruises gives you the wonderful possibility to convert your rest into fascinating and amazing trip. Steam-ship cruises on the Russian rivers provide many tourist companies, giving you option to choose the river. You can trip on Danube River, Neva River, Oka River and many over. Your trip will be very pleasant because you'll rest in the comfortable floating hotel enjoying the Russian spaces beauty, grandeur of the Old Russian cities and picturesqueness of the banks landscapes.

Volga river cruise is one of the most interesting and enthralling trips. The Volga River is one of the largest rivers on Earth and the greatest river in Europe. Its length consists more than three with a half thousand kilometers. Many Russian areas, great cities and natural monuments are situated on its coast. Volga is the main Russian waterway amazing beauty and spaces. You can choose independently the routes, excursions and time according your taste. It's interesting that Volga changes the width from a streamlet almost to the sea on all extent! It is noticed that in northern hemisphere the right river bank is more abrupt and in southern left bank is more abrupt. It occurs because of influence of deviating force of Earth. Many famous cities of Golden Ring are situated on the Volga coasts, such as Kostroma, Uglich, Yaroslavl, Kizhi.

In some chronicles talked that Slavs went down on Volga, swam through the Caspian Sea and drove commodities to distant enigmatic Baghdad. In antiquity Volga was used as a largest trade-route, the way "from a Varangian in Greeks".

During your Volga river cruise you can fish or hunt traveling across Volga, because there is great number of fish's types in the rivers depth. On a variety of fish fauna it is one of the world richest rivers. The fish such as lamprey, beluga, sturgeon, thorn comes from the Caspian Sea. Sterlet, sazan, bream, pike perch, burbot, acatfish, perch, ruff, chub, small fry live in the Volga constantly. Also there are beautiful forests with many animals. So, not only professional can hunt there.

You can start your river cruise in Russia from the river sources situated in the southwest of Valdai Hills. Volga flows through the water basins such as Ivankovsky (the Moscow Sea), Uglichsky, Rybinsk, Gorki water basin. Character of coast often changes around Nizhni Novgorod and their heights often pass from the right to the left coast. How many interesting things you can see here! High right and low left coast goes from Nizhni Novgorod on the big extent. Volga passes through the Kuibyshev water basin Below Kazan to Samara. Below Samara on the right abrupt coast is situated the forest-steppe strip, the lowland is located on the left coast. After Saratov to Volgograd Volga passes through the Volgograd water basin.

Your river cruises in Russia promises to be interesting!

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