Volga River

“At Astrakhan State Pedagogical University, located in the Volga River delta, Maya Ryashchina has found three patterns: noun plus postpositive, as in hands-on manager and heads-up tennis; verb plus postpositive, as in drive-by killing; and a modal verb plus infinitive, as in can-do mentality, must-have wine and must-see film.”

Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time

“She represented him in 1975 at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo and conveyed messages and writings to Moscow after 1980, when he was banished to the Volga River city of Gorky, now Nizhny Novgorod, for criticizing the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.”

The Wall Street Journal: Yelena Bonner, Wife of Sakharov, Dies