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	Encyclopedia: Valdai Hills (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Austrias longest glacier, the Pasterze, winds its 8 km (5 mile) route at the foot of Austrias highest mountain, the Grossglockner A glacier is a large, long-lasting river of ice that is formed on land and moves in response to gravity.
		Seliger (Russian: Селигер) is a lake in Novgorod and Tver Oblasts of Russia, in the northwest of the Valdai Hills, a part of the Volga basin.
		Valdai or Valday (Russian: Ð’Ð°Ð»Ð´Ð°ÌÐ¹) is a town in Novgorod Oblast, Russia, an administrative center of Valdaysky District.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Valdai-Hills (573 words)

	Valdai Hills (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Valdai Hills (Russian: Валда́йская возвы́шенность or Валда́й) are an upland region in north-west of central Russia running north-south, about midway between St.
		The hills are a northward extension of the Central Russian Upland.
		Valdai is a place of many lakes, among them Volgo, Peno, Seliger, Valdai Lake.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/V/Valdai-Hills.htm (178 words)

	Valdai Hills -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		It occupies an area of 32,471 square miles (84,100 square km) and extends from the morainic Valdai Hills in the southwest, across the broad, swampy plain of the upper Volga River, to the shore of the huge Rybinsk Reservoir in the northeast.
		The river basin drains some 533,000 square miles (1,380,000 square kilometres), stretching from the Valdai Hills and Central Russian Upland in the west to the Ural Mountains in the east and narrowing sharply at Saratov in the south.
		Hill, who was born on April 2, 1899, discovered in 1937 that isolated chloroplasts (the green particles responsible for photosynthesis in plants) could produce oxygen from water in the presence of light and an appropriate chemical compound introduced to serve as an electron acceptor, a process that became known as the Hill reaction.
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	Blagovest Bells— Gift Shop
		Valdai bells have the classical tulip shape of real bells, in which the height is equal to the diameter.
		They are specially cast from Valdai's traditional bronze formula, which is over 500 years old— pure bell bronze, not brass or some other cheap metal— and their clear, crystalline tone is instantly discernable from the bells that used to fascinate us as children at the five and dime.
		Valdai bells would beautifully complement your icon corner and in fact can be ordered with icons on them— Christ, the Holy Virgin, and St. John the Baptist, making a unique "deesis" set.
	www.russianbells.com /specs/valdai.html (594 words)

	History Channel Search Results
		The Eastern Slavs became renowned traders, and the systems of rivers and waterways extending through the territory from the Valdai Hills facilitated the establishment of Slav trading posts, notably the cities of Kiev, in the south, and Novgorod, in the north.
		The Valdai Hills region in northwestern Russia is the high point of the eastern European plain and the source of most of its rivers.
		Most of the expansion and migratory movements of the Eastern Slavs were from the Valdai Hills.
	www.historychannel.com /encyclopedia/article.jsp?link=FWNE.fw..ru085600.a (6889 words)

	Vitebsk
		This large stream rises in the Valdai Hills, in that watershed from which also the Volga flows east, and the Dneper south.
		The hills, the little gardens, the green shutters, all had a pastel, dreamy quality; and clouds had golden rims, and cows in the countryside had bells, and birds were inquisitive and trusting, or so they appeared to me.
		From these hills one could count in the distance, between the town and the slopes, the number of freight cars in the train that occasionally and slowly crept along the plain.
	www.varchive.org /dy/vitebsk.htm (4748 words)

	Russian Topography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Daugava or Western Dvina is a river rising in the Valdai Hills flowing through Russia and Belarus, to drain into the Gulf of Riga, an arm of the Baltic Sea at Riga in Latvia.
		One of the longest rivers in Europe, it rises in the Valdai Hills, west of Moscow.
		The Valdai Hills are an upland region running north south, about midway between Leningrad and Moscow.
	www.theeasternfront.co.uk /russiantopography.htm (2805 words)

	Volga River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rising in the Valdai Hills 225 m (740 ft) above sea level north-west of Moscow and about 320 kilometres south-east of Saint Petersburg, the Volga heads east past Tver', Dubna, Yaroslavl, Nizhny Novgorod and Kazan (Qazan).
		Ptolemy believed the Don and the Volga shared the same upper branch, which flowed from the Hyperborean Mountains.
		Perhaps the mountains are the Valdai Hills, but the name is used by other sources to mean an unknown region to the north.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Volga (1037 words)

	4enviro1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Valdai National Park was establised in 1990 and has an area of 160.000 hectares.
		The upland of Valdai Hills forms the watershed for numerous rivers, including the Volga, the Western Dvina, and the Dnieper.
		The freshwater mollusc, listed among the world's endangered species, was last seen in the Valdai Hills in the middle of the 19th century and was since then believed to be extinct, reports the Educational Committee of the Novgorod region.
	www.mustiala.hamk.fi /verkkokurssit/michelson/russia/5monastary1.htm (271 words)

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		Demyansk is located on the western edge of the Valdai Hills, south of Leningrad and northeast of Moscow.
		The eastern quarter of the map is all rough terrain representing the Valdai Hills.
		Demyansk is roughly in the center of the eastern half, on the edge of the hill region.
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	Guardian Century \| 1940-1949 \| No Nearer To Leningrad
		Anyway, the Germans have not approached appreciably nearer during the week, and it is questionable whether the German reserves which are arriving do much more than fill the gap made by Leeb's enormous casualties.
		Outside the Leningrad ring Voroshilov's operations in and from the Valdai Hills are not finished, and the latest reports show that the Germans have not scored the victory there which they claimed on Wednesday.
		Indeed, a fresh counter-thrust appears to be developing from the Valdai Hills, and the Germans apparently designed their thrust at Velikiye Luki, on the Riga-Moscow railway, as a counter-move, hoping to threaten the rear of the Russian forces in the Valdai Hills.
	century.guardian.co.uk /1940-1949/Story/0,6051,127491,00.html (466 words)

	Valdai Hills -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		Toward the west the hills decline steeply toward the Lake Ilmen lowland, but there is no distinct boundary on the east.
		The uplands form the watershed between the basins of the Volga and Western Dvina rivers and the Ilmen plain; in the Middle Ages they were an important portage region between the rivers.
		At Vyshny Volochok the first canal in Russia was built, in 1708.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9074664 (795 words)

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		The Valdai Hills, which lie west of Moscow, in western Russia, rise gradually from the surrounding plain and are dissected by numerous narrow valleys containing a number of lakes.
		The Volga River and its branches rise on the plateau, the maximum elevation of which is 321 meters (1,053 feet) above sea level.
		The hills were formerly forested but are now mostly cleared and cultivated.
	alas.matf.bg.ac.yu /~mr04155/seminarski/seminarski1/valdaj.html (73 words)

	Proud Monsters
		The German line pulls back again to 60 miles east of Kursk and only 1 hex of the Valdai hills are left in their grasp after the Russian attacks.
		The Valdai is cleared of the fascist invaders.
		The only positive point is that the Valdai hills are still completely behind the Russian lines.
	www.ahiks.co.uk /proudmonster.html (3070 words)

	Volga River - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In ancient times it was known as Atil, Itil or Idil.
		Rising in the Valdai Hills 225 m (740 ft) above sea level north-west of Moscow and about 320 kilometres south-east of Saint Petersburg, the Volga heads east past Yaroslavl, Nizhny Novgorod and Kazan (Qazan).
		From there it turns south, flows past Togliatti, Samara and Volgograd, and discharges into the Caspian Sea below Astrakhan at 28 metres below sea level.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Volga (552 words)

	RUSNET :: Encyclopedia :: V :: Volga: Physical features
		The Volga is a small stream in its upper course through the Valdai Hills, becoming a true river only after the entrance of several of its tributaries.
		From this point the Volga becomes a mighty river, which, save for a sharp loop at the Samara Bend, flows southwestward along the foot of the Volga Hills in the direction of Volgograd.(Between the Samara Bend and Volgograd it receives only the relatively small left-bank tributaries of the Samara, Bolshoy Irgiz, and Yeruslan.)
		From its source to the Kama confluence, it lies within a temperate climatic zone characterized by a cold, snowy winter and a warm, rather humid summer.
	www.rusnet.nl /encyclo/v/volga_physic.shtml (967 words)

	Volga (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Volga River, the largest river system in Europe, rises in the Valdai Hills northwest of Moscow at an elevation of 225 m and flows through its 2,365 km length to discharge into the Caspian Sea.
		Over much of this drainage area, the river traverses a broad, often swampy basin, surrounded by low morainic hills.
		Within its basin lives nearly 25 percent of the total population of the U.S.S.R., and the river and its tributaries carry about two-thirds of all the river borne freight in the country.
	www.geol.lsu.edu /WDD/EUROPEAN/Volga/volga.htm (1468 words)

	2004-03-08 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Route Report: Kristy - (Valdai Mountains/Hills) - Valdai.
		The stage today was dominated by the hilly - and in summer notoriously beautifull - Valdai landscape with its many rolling hills and small valleys.
		Fortunately the second worldwar's destructions didn't reach this area, the fighting beeing at nearest 25km.
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	AllRefer.com - Valday Hills (CIS And Baltic Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia
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	Pravda.RU Large Family Approaches Putin In Valdai For Help
		While President Vladimir Putin was visiting the Iberian Monastery in the Valdai Hills, a large family of four dependent children approached him pleading for help.
		The first one is a Chechen terrorist act and the second is, probably, a criminal showdown, Astrakhan governor Anatoly Guzhvin announced in a live ORT news programme.
		Russian President Vladimir Putin is spending his brief vacation in a presidential residence on Lake Valdai in the Novgorod region, Northern Russia.
	newsfromrussia.com /region/2001/08/21/12991.html (1873 words)

	INCO-COPERNICUS at the GIETH
		The central watershed region approximately corresponds with the Valdai Hills and has an area about 70000 km
		It belongs to the Moscow synclinal which is part of the Precambrian Russian Sheet which has been formed by crystalline and sediment rocks with high degree of metamorphosis.
		It includes the depression part with the largest Upper Volga Lakes Sterzh, Vsyelug, Pyeno and Volgo and surrounding elevations of the Valdai Hills.
	www.iac.ethz.ch /staff/zappa/fyr.htm (1328 words)

	MSN Encarta - Valdai Hills
		Valdai Hills, low plateau or group of hills, north-western Russia.
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	The ACG/SZO Discussion Forums - Fire in the East 4.1 - Solitaire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		While facing a lesser selection of RDs, supply is so bad along this whole area, these units have been quiet the last two turns trying to resupply so they can push northeast around Kalinin.
		The Germans were able to push deep into the Hills with relative ease.
		The Valdaii Hills end up being horrid for the Axis due to low supplies, so your southern flank can hold with less units.
	www.strategyzoneonline.com /forums/showthread.php?t=19181 (2440 words)

	29008 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Water balances of experimental watersheds in the Valdai Branch of the State Hydrological Institute (SHI), Russia
		Abstract This paper presents results of water balance components, as obtained by long-term research in the Valdai Hills area of northwestern Russia.
		Examined are the observation methods and calculation techniques, in particular correction of precipitation and evapotranspiration estimates, as well as soil moisture and groundwater storage.
	www.cig.ensmp.fr /~iahs/redbooks/a290/29008.htm (134 words)

	Russia
		The lands that made up Kievan Rus were located in the forest zone of Eastern Europe along a group of rivers, the Dnieper, the western Dvina, the Lovat-Volkhov, and the Volga, the headwaters of which all emanate from the Valdai hills.
		According to the chronicle, the tribes subject to the Riurikids had increased to include the Krivichi (in the region of the Valdai hills), the Poliane (around Kiev on the Dnieper river), and the Drevliane (south of the Pripiat river, a tributary of the Dnieper).
		The Riurikids, furthermore, had taken command of the Dnieper, a major commercial artery.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/f/freeze-russia.html (3973 words)

	The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Valday Hills @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Valday Hills @ HighBeam Research
		VALDAY HILLS [Valday Hills] or Valdai Hills, upland region, NW European Russia, composed of a series of glacial moraines that rise to c.1,100 ft (340 m).
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	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1E1:ValdayHi&refid=ip_almanac_hf (112 words)

	GEO_PLATE_D-8.HTML (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Volga River, the largest river system in Europe, rises in the Valdai Hills northwest of Moscow and flows through its 3370-km length to discharge into the Caspian Sea.
		It has a drainage area in excess of 1.3 million km
		Within its basin lives nearly 25 percent of the total population of the U.S.S.R., and the river and its tributaries carry about two-thirds of all the riverborne freight in the country.
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	Which is Europe's longest river, and where does it flow? SOCIETY , Volga River, is the Europe's longest river, which ...
		SOCIETY, Volga River, is the Europe's longest river, which flows 2,290 miles (3,688 km) through Russia from Valdai Hills to the Caspian Sea.
		Volga River, is the Europe's longest river, which flows 2,290 miles (3,688 km) through Russia from Valdai Hills to the Caspian Sea.
		Boats use it to transport goods across the country.
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	GEOGRAPHY
		2) Valdai Hills (1138 ft., this the highest spot in European Russia)
		Baltic Sea, via Gulf of Riga (GO Valdai Hills
		Baltic Sea, via Lake Peipus, Narva River,andGulf of Finland (GO Valdai Hills
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