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  Travel to Russia Idea Inc. is ready to help you with all types of visas to travel services.
Located on both sides of the Moskva River in western Russia, about 400 miles southeast of St. Petersburg, Moscow is the largest city in Russia.
It is located on Borovitsky Hill on the left bank of the Moskva River and considered one of the most beautiful architectural ensembles in the world.
People had to be ferried between banks by boat — one of the reasons why St. Petersburg became known as the “Venice of the North.” The city itself consists of 101 islands and is miraculously built on mostly their banks.
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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Oka River
The source of a river or stream may be a lake, a spring, or a collection of headwaters.
In hydrology, the discharge of a river is the volume of water transported by it in a certain amount of time.
A tributary (or affluent or confluent) is a contributory stream, a river that does not reach the sea, but joins another major river (a parent river), to which it contributes its waters, swelling its discharge.
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 davidkippen
The Liffey, the river around which Joyce built one of the most complex and fascinating novels in English, becomes a metaphor for the history of Ireland, life, death, love and eternity.
The Moskva's embankment is a bit scruffy and shabby throughout the city center, and even at Gorky Park, which should be a major center of intersection between land and water, the steps leading down to the water feel almost like an afterthought.
As a result, the only notable views from the river are of Christ the Saviour Church, the Kremlin, and a large statue of Peter the Great.
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  Golden Keys | Moscow | Heading for Moskva River Expanses
The river bus is one more pleasure of this kind that is not less tempting and not depending on whims of weather.
River buses are spacious double-deck motorboats cruising on the Moskva River, the capital's main water artery.
As far as the Great Kremlin Palace whose sumptuous facade overlooks the Moskva River as well as the former Cathedral of Christ the Savior are concerned, they were created by the Russian architect Constantin Ton.
www.goldenkeys.narod.ru /moskvariver.html   (1922 words)

  
  Moskva River   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Map of the Volga watershed with the Moskva highlighted; the two rivers are directly connected by the Moscow Canal.
The Moskva River (Russian/Cyrillic: Москва-река) is a river that flows through the Moscow and Smolensk Oblasts in Russia, and is a tributary of the Oka River.
The length of the river is 503 km.
nba.servegame.org /en/Moskva_River.htm   (471 words)

  
 Omnipelagos.com ~ article "Moskva River"
Moskva River (Russian/Cyrillic: Москва-река) is a river that flows through the Moscow and Smolensk Oblasts in Russia, and is a left tributary of the Oka River.
The river also flows through the towns of Mozhaysk, Zvenigorod, Zhukovsky, Bronnitsy, Voskresensk, and — at the confluence of the Moskva and Oka — Kolomna.
The Battle of Borodino is known in French as "Battle of the Moskva River" (Bataille de la Moscowa).
www.omnipelagos.com /entry?n=moskva_%52iver   (217 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Moskva   (Site not responding. Last check: )
It is the longest river of Europe and the principal waterway of Russia, being navigable (with locks bypassing the dams) almost throughout its course.
RUSSIA: MOSCOW The Novodievitchi Monastery,built in 1524 on the River Moskva.
Vladimir Grebyonkin swims in icy water in the Moskva river in...
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 Russian Topography   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Moskva River, also known as the Moscow River, is a tributary of the Oka River in the Volga basin.
The Pripyat Marshes are a forested, swampy area of 38,000sq miles (98,400sq km) extending along the Pripyat River and its tributaries from Brest in the west to Mogilev in the northeast and Kiev in the southeast.
Streams and even major rivers froze solid for months at a time to such an extent that vehicles were able to cross and in one case a rail line was laid across the Dnepr River to help supply the German 6th Army engaged in fighting east of the river.
www.theeasternfront.co.uk /russiantopography.htm   (2804 words)

  
 Moskva River   (Site not responding. Last check: )
), also known as the Moscow River, is a small river over 400 miles long, situated in Russia, Central Europe.
), the capital of Russia, is situated on it, also the river flows via Voskresensk, Kolomna, Mozhaysk.
The quality of the water in the river has been seen to be in decline.
www.wapipedia.com /wikipedia/mobiletopic.aspx?cur_title=Moskva_River   (95 words)

  
 RIA Novosti - Opinion & analysis - Moskva River leaves much to be desired in terms of cleanliness
Moskva River leaves much to be desired in terms of cleanliness
An oil slick a kilometer long and covering an area of 600 square metres in Mnevniki and a second massive discharge in Fili are not the worst that has happened to the Moskva River lately, believes Viktor Danilov-Danilyan, director of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute of Water Problems and Corresponding Member of the RAS.
The river, which 858 years ago gave its name to a small Slav village destined to become the capital of Russia, is today dying from wastewaters of a 10-million megalopolis.
en.rian.ru /analysis/20050713/40901330.html   (773 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Moscow   (Site not responding. Last check: )
It lies on both sides of the River Moskva, from which it derives its name; another small stream called the Yauza, flows through the eastern part of the city.
He conquered and annexed several neighbouring territories and enlarged his dominions to the entire length of the River Moskva In 1300 the Kremlin was enclosed by a strong wall of earth and wooden palisades, and it then received its appellation.
At the end of it towards the river stands the bizarre church of St. Basil the Blessed, of which Napoleon is said to have ordered: "Burn that mosque!" The Historical Museum is at the other end.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/10591b.htm   (4188 words)

  
 Hotel MOSKVA: Hotel history
It is rather tempting to visit "Moskva" hotel, were the world-famous people lived.
"Moskva" hotel is the most central of the Moscow hotels.
It is located in a hundred meters from the sign of "Zero-Kilometer of the Russian Roads".
hotel-moskva.ru /index.en.html   (275 words)

  
 Russian River Ships - Moscow & Oka 2005
"PERSEY" on Moskva river in the suburbs of Moscow (2005)
Moskva river in the suburbs of Moscow (2005)
"GRIGORIY PIROGOV" on Moskva river in the suburbs of Moscow (2005)
riverships.ru /english/albums/2005_o.shtml   (309 words)

  
 YGC AC Moscow Tour - Introduction to Moscow   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Moscow (Moskva) is the capital of one-sixth of the world with about 10 million inhabitants.
Formerly the centre of one of the world's two superpowers, Moscow (Moskva) is still reeling from the rapid pace of change that the past decade has wrought.
Located in the centre of the East-European plain, with its major part occupying the valley of the Moskva River, it is a brash city with pockets of ostentatious new-found (and often ill-gotten) wealth surrounded by the vast majority struggling to live on their meagre salaries or pensions.
prichard.net /yac/IntroMoskva.html   (761 words)

  
 River Systems of the World
River water is diverted for agricultural irrigation, industry, hygiene, and related uses.
Where possible, diverted water may be returned to the river clean and near the point of diversion; specifically, some municipal water supplies treat their sewage and return fairly clean water to the river.
Most rivers are not so lucky: either the water comes back contaminated with pollutants, or not at all.
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 Russian River Ships - Prague 2005
Vltava river in the centre of Prague (Czech Republic) (2005)
For the operation on rivers with low bridges the ships are equipped with lifting wheel-house and removable tent on the upper deck.
As a rule, the saloon on the lower deck is used as a bar or a restaurant.
riverships.ru /english/albums/2005_p.shtml   (324 words)

  
 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Moscow (, romanized: Moskva, IPA:) is the capital of Russia and the country's principal political, economic, financial, educational, and transportation center, located on the Moskva River in the Central Federal District, in the European part of Russia.
Its favorable position on the headwaters of the Volga river contributed to steady expansion.
Moscow is situated on the banks of the Moskva River, which flows for just over five hundred kilometers through western Russia, in the center of the East-European plain.
www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Moscow   (7747 words)

  
 Mitvol Threatens to Flood Moscow Cottages - Kommersant Moscow
Mitvol said the locks will be opened to put on speed of the river flow and specified that the method had been regularly applied up to 2000.
This method to clean the river bottom is applied after winter, when the reservoir has amassed enough excess water.
But no one knows what winter we will have this year, so any talks about cleaning are premature, said Alexey Belov, head of the water supply operation department at Mosvodokanal, pointing out no cleaning had been carried out in the recent years exactly because of the poor spring tide.
www.kommersant.com /page.asp?id=616522   (294 words)

  
 Fakultäten der Universität Heidelberg
At the new phase of cooperation, much attention was paid on the studies of the heavy metal pollution of the Klyazma and the Moskva River Basins and their sediments, the most polluted parts of the Oka River drainage area, also methods for determining some organic contaminants in sediments have been developed.
This paper presents the results of the detailed investigations of the heavy metal and organic pollution of the aquatic sediments of the largest part of the Moskva River Basin up- and downstream from the city of Moscow and of the main part of the Klyazma River Basin for the section from Moscow to Vladimir.
This work is the first systematic investigation of the aquatic sediments of the Moskva River and the Klyazma River drainage areas.
www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de /~i02/muelhome/okaelbe.htm   (366 words)

  
 The Moscow News
"Luzhkov demands that the Moskva River be placed under the city's jurisdiction," Vladimir Borovsky, head of the Federal Inland Water Transport Administration for the Moscow Basin, said.
A third one will be built in the Pechatniki area, where the Moskva River is the widest.
Department officials declined to say whether the idea is to have the Moskva River placed under the city government's jurisdiction in its entirety - from riverhead to estuary, or simply to divide up water use rights.
english.mn.ru /english/issue.php?2006-38-1   (1306 words)

  
 Kolomna - Search Results - MSN Encarta
An industrial and commercial city in the Moscow oblast, it lies near the confluence of the Moskva and Oka rivers, 100...
Today the manufacture of transport equipment is concentrated in central European Russia.
Moskva River, river, Moscow and Smolensk provinces, western Russia, a tributary of the Oka River in the Volga basin.
uk.encarta.msn.com /Kolomna.html   (76 words)

  
 Fulfillment: May 26, 2005: Sewage in Moskva River
Sewage in Moscow's river finishes the details expected at the replay of the Plague of Blood.
In the past this plague has been associated with the sudden polluting of rivers, which is in effect what happened in the original plague of blood.
But, the definitive fulfillment is the polluting of a river, which is what happened in the Moskva river.
www.bibletime.com /news/log/2005/06/01/Sewage/index.html   (213 words)

  
 World Architecture Images- Russia- The Kremlin
overlooking the Moskva River (to the south), Red Square (to the east) and the Alexander Garden (to the west)
The Moscow Kremlin (Russian: Московский Кремль) is a historic fortified complex at the very heart of Moscow, overlooking the Moskva River (to the south), Red Square (to the east) and the Alexander Garden (to the west).
The Slavs occupied the south-western portion of the hill as early as the 11th century, as testifies a metropolitan seal from the 1090s, which was unearthed by Soviet archaeologists on the spot.
www.essential-architecture.com /EUROPE/EUROPE-EAST/eur-russia/RUS-MOS-001.htm   (2892 words)

  
 Excursion Descriptions
The construction of the Palace of Soviets was interrupted due to a lack of funds, problems with flooding from the nearby Moskva River, and the outbreak of war.
The convent, built as a fortress at the intersection of three crossings of the Moskva River, became an important component of the capital's southern defence belt.
The scenic area which overlooks the steep banks of the Moskva River became a part of Moscow in the 1960s.
www.russianballetcamp.com /excDescription.html   (1962 words)

  
 Diving The Moskva River - UKDivers.com
For those who being in Moscow at least once will be clear that Moskva River is no place to dive (it looks just like Chao Praya in Bangkok).
One of the days, my company decided to make a trip on a river and I was surprised how clear water was just before river enters the city.
After about 10 minutes of hysterical laughing he asked if I seen a doctor… It took me a while to convince him that I was not drinking, taking medication or just being nuts lately.
www.ukdivers.com /info/moskava-river.asp   (734 words)

  
 Voyaging the rivers of Russia: Volga and Moskva-River
Voyaging the rivers of Russia: Volga and Moskva-River
The cruise route between Moscow and Saint Petersburg is the most famous and beautiful of all river routes.
You will be awed by great Russian River Volga and man-made canals and enchanted by numerous locks, huge Lagoda and Onega lakes, and sea-like water reservoirs.
www.urania.ru /cruise-x/Announce-eng.html   (219 words)

  
 The Moscow Kremlin - Kremlin map
Built in 1488 by Anton Fryazin it had a specific importance in the Kremlin’s fortification system as it protected shallow waters near the Neglinnaya River’s mouth.
The Vodovzvodnaya Tower had a well and a secret underground passage towards the Moskva River.
In 1633, Christopher Galloway installed a water-pumping machine inside the tower to take water from the Moskva River and send it along lead-coated pipes to the Kremlin Gardens.
www.kreml.ru /en/main/kremlin/towers/Vodovzvodnaya   (205 words)

  
 Russian River Ships - "Vasiliy Chapaev" 2004
September 4 - 11, 2004 the Second All-Russian Conference of the River Fleet Enthusiasts was held on the board of the motor ship "Vasiliy Chapaev".
"OT-2112" on Volga river in Nizhniy Novgorod (2004)
"VOLGO-DON 123" on Kama river in Nizhnekamsk (2004)
riverships.ru /english/albums/2004_c.shtml   (391 words)

  
 Winter Swimming | PRI's The World
The answer is the Moskva (or Moscow) River --- it freezes up in November and stays under ice until Spring.
But unlike the River Jordon the Moskva River is frozen...so it takes some nerve for the faithful to take an icy plunge.
They believe that by braving the icy river they are able to cleanse their souls.
www.theworld.org /?q=node/2377&answer=true   (626 words)

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