The operation took place overnight at the Kapustin Yar launch site in Russia's southeastern Astrakhan region on July 8, 2024.

Ukraine's defense forces destroyed an Oreshnik intercontinental ballistic missile at the Kapustin Yar test site in the ...

The Southern District Military Court sentenced Vladimir Savin, a resident of Astrakhan, to 15 years in prison for ...

On the night of Monday, February 3, the Volgograd oil refinery and Astrakhan gas processing plant in Russia were attacked by ...

A new direct round-trip flight route between Rasht, Iran, and Astrakhan, Russia, was inaugurated on Sunday morning and will ...

In our latest installment on pandemic travel in Russia, our contributor is enthralled by the diversity and hidden gems he found in the southern Russian city by the Volga River. When we entered the ATR ...

During a meeting with the region’s deputy governor and minister of industry, Ahmad Heidarian, Iran’s consul general in Astrakhan, emphasized the strategic importance of deepening economic and ...

Russian police have arrested "three young IT specialists" in Moscow, charging them with developing and selling the notorious ...

The governor welcomed the new Iranian envoy, calling Iran a “reliable and strategic partner.” He said more than 70 Iran-backed companies are active in Astrakhan, including a branch of Mir Business ...

The Astrakhan gas processing plant owned by Russia’s energy giant Gazprom suspended the production of motor fuel on 22 September after a fire caused by a drone attack. Source: Reuters, citing three ...

Pro-Kremlin activists in the city of Astrakhan have unveiled a bust of Tsar Ivan IV, also known as Ivan the Terrible, on private land after the city's administration refused to locate it on a public ...

JUST below the city of Tsaritsyn the Volga seems to rebound suddenly from the precipitous cliff of its right bank; for thenceforward, diverging in a south-easterly direction, it goes wandering on in a ...