The Volga River a large waterway flowing through European Russia and ending in the Caspian Sea. It is the largest river in Europe in terms of length, watershed and discharge. A large city on the Volga, which had been burdened with the politically controversial names Tsaritsyn and Stalingrad for much of its history, was given the safe, neutral name Volgograd, after the river, in 1961, during the de-Stalinization period of Soviet history.
Volga River in Worldwar[]
The Soviet government had planned to relocate to Kuibishev, along the Volga River early during the Race Invasion of Earth, when Moscow appeared threatened. This move never proved necessary.
The town of Saratov, also situated on the Volga, was destroyed by a Soviet explosive-metal bomb after it was overrun by the Race.
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