Ice in the river
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'Asia is adjacent to Europe, bordering thereon along the River Tanaïs...' Thus opens the first of Strabo's books describing Asia Geography XI.1.1). For the city that shared the river's name `a foundation of the Greeks who control the Bosporos', he provides ample information, as he does also for Lake Maiotis. About the river upstream of the delta, Strabo knows nothing: its sources are `not visible'. The Don, flowing 1,870 km., rises south of Moscow and its drainage basin extends to 422,000 sq. km.

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The canal opened, under Stalin, to link the Don with the Volga is 101 km. long.

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Don Delta (Rostovskaya Oblast).