Mother Volga

Very impressive with the evening sun picking out the detail

On the Viking cruise from Moscow to St Petersburg you pass this almost immediately after leaving the Rybinsk lock - one of the deepest on the voyage. In our case (mid September) this was about 6 in th...

Surprising

We saw this statue while we were having breakfast on our cruise ship on route from St Petersburg to Moscow and it came as something of a shock. We had to find out from the waitress what the statue was...

Impressive Statue

A rather large statue, dedicated to the River Volga, that so many Russians rely on for a living, it is situated on the river bank. We passed this early morning on our Viking River Cruise, so almost m...

Just another monument in the river Volga

We crossed this huge monument when crusing the Volga river from Moscow to Saint Petersburg. You really see it from the distance, its nice but nothing to write home about it.

Immense

Original Text

We were on the cruise by the Volga and they announced that we were going to see it. It is the mother-in-the-home of Rýbinsk symbol that the Volga gives life to Russia. I thought it was deslaved with that clear yellow color that ...