Yaroslavl

Yaroslavl, oblast (region), western Russia. It lies in the upper Volga River basin. Most of the oblast is a low plain traversed by the Volga River and broken only by the low, morainic Danilov and Uglich uplands, which run northeast–southwest across it. In the northwest is the 1,768-square-mile (4,579-square-kilometre) Rybinsk Reservoir on the Volga; most of the reservoir lies within the oblast. The oblast’s natural vegetation is forest of spruce, pine, oak, maple, and ash,...