This story originally appeared in Vlast.kz. Over the past five years, the Ural River’s level has dropped so much that it seriously impedes river traffic. Such professions as ship-repair mechanic and ...

When Nursultan Tauman went out for a stroll along the banks of the Ural River, he could not believe what he saw. “Dead fish, floating on the dirty river,” recalled Tauman, a native of the western ...

Russians in the city of Orsk gathered in a rare protest Monday, calling for compensation following the collapse of a dam and subsequent flooding in the Orenburg region near the border with Kazakhstan.

MOSCOW — Floods caused by rising water levels in the Ural River broke a dam in a city near Russia's border with Kazakhstan, forcing some 2,000 people to evacuate, local authorities said. The dam broke ...

Russian officials scrambled to help homeowners displaced by floods as water levels rose in the Ural River, authorities said Wednesday. Floods in the Orenburg region near Russia's border with ...

A new species of gudgeon was discovered in the Ural River of western Russia. Turbanov IS, Bolotovskiy AA, Artaev ON, Gandlin AA, Levina MA, Vasil’eva ED, Levin BA (2025) Zoosystematics and Evolution ...

Orenburg Mayor Sergey Salmin said that the city’s South Ural water intake facility was not currently jeopardized and that the water treatment facilities were operating as usual ORENBURG, April 10.