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Russian rivers
1. Russian rivers
Гильченок Е. 13 гр2. Russia
•Russia is one of the largest countries in the world. The vast territory ofRussia lies in the eastern part of Europe and the northern part of Asia.
Russia is washed by twelve seas and three oceans.
•There are a lot of great rivers and deep lakes on its territory.
•The longest rivers are the Volga in Europe and the Ob, the Yenisei and the
Lena in Asia. The largest lakes are Ladoga and Baikal. Baikal is the
deepest lake in the world and its water is the purest on earth.
3. Volga River
The Volga is the longest river in Europe; It flows through centralRussia and into the Caspian Sea, and is widely viewed as the
national river of Russia.
4. Dnieper River
One of the longest rivers in Europe, it rises west of Moscow and flowssouth through Belarus and Ukraine, emptying into the Black Sea after
a course of 1,420 mi (2,285 km).
5. Oka River
Oka is a river in central Russia, the largest left tributary of the Volga. Itflows through the regions of Oryol, Tula, Kaluga, Moscow, Ryazan,
Vladimir, and Nizhny Novgorod. Its length exceeds 1,500 kilometres
(930 mi).