Volkhov River

• 13 Jun 2024

Source: TH

Recently, four medical students from Maharashtra studying at a university in Russia drowned in the river Volkhov near St. Petersburg.

• The Volkhov River is in northwestern Russia. 
• It flows from Lake Ilmen, passes through Novgorod, and goes north-northeast into Lake Ladoga through a flat, swampy area. 
• In the town of Volkhov, the first hydroelectric station in the Soviet Union was built in 1926. 
• The Volkhov, in early times part of the important Baltic Sea–Black Sea trade route, is navigable only by small craft.
• As per the data released by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) in 2022, there were nearly 16, 500 Indian students in Russia.

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