Russia's Astrakhan gas processing plant, controlled by energy giant Gazprom , halted production of petroleum products after a repair-related stoppage on March 30, the company said on Tuesday ...

Nasim Bahr Kish, an Iranian firm that holds a controlling stake in Russia's Astrakhan Port, has submitted an offer to acquire ...

On the night of March 17, strike drones attacked fuel and energy complex facilities in the Astrakhan region of Russia. Due to ...

Astrakhan gas processing plant shut down due to drone strike. The authorities deny the reports of an environmental disaster, the governor of the Astrakhan region of Russia, Igor Babushkin, says.

Astrakhan Governor Igor Babushkin said in a statement: "Dear citizens, this morning the city was covered by a cloud of natural gas, which has a specific smell that appears after processing.

Central Astrakhan is a great place to walk: there is an old kremlin, merchants' mansions, numerous churches. Astrakhan is often compared to Venice. The Volga overflows here, forming 11 islands ...

A Sukhoi Su-57 at Zhukovsky International Airport on August 27, 2019, in Russia. A Ukrainian long-range attack on a Russian airfield may have destroyed two advanced stealth jets, according to Kyiv.

In Astrakhan they add a piece of Tatar cake, a thin tegument of baked dough sprinkled with poppy seeds, with a relish, on occasions of unusual hunger, in the shape of rak, a sort of fluvial lobster.

Astrakhan is also famous for its watermelons, whose in-season (August–September) price falls to as little as four rubles (around $.12) per kilogram.

And still the repressions did not die down. The authorities clearly decided to take revenge on the workers of Astrakhan' for the whole wave of strikes - in Tula, Bryansk, Petrograd - which broke out ...