Valdai Hills

[ vahl-dahy; Russian vuhl-dahy ]

plural noun

1. a region of hills and plateaus in the W Russian Federation in Europe, at the source of the Volga River: highest point, 1,140 feet (347 meters).

Valdai Hills

/ vɑːlˈdaɪ /

plural noun

1. a region of hills and plateaus in NW Russia, between Moscow and St Petersburg. Greatest height: 346 m (1135 ft)

Example Sentences

Crooked like an elbow, the Volga passes from the Valdai hills near Moscow down to Astrakhan by the Caspian Sea.

From The Guardian

Perhaps the Germans were withdrawing to a line, well-prepared in their rear, stretching perhaps from the Valdai hills in the north to the vicinity of Kharkov in the Ukraine.

From Time Magazine Archive

In a sudden thrust, Marshal Klimenti Voroshilov advanced 65 miles in ten days, swept around the Valdai Hills; recaptured Kholm, only 110 miles from the Latvian frontier; and cut the Leningrad-Vitebsk railroad, essential to German communication with Leningrad.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Volga is the largest river in Europe; measured through all its windings, it has a length of twenty-four hundred miles from its rise among the Valdai Hills, five hundred and fifty feet above the sea-level, to its d�bouchure into the Caspian.

From Project Gutenberg

Tracing on the map the line of the Carpathian and Caucasus mountains, we find three-fourths of all Europe, north and east of these ranges, without a mountain or hill traced on the great expanse except the Valdai hills, and these are only bluffs not as high or extensive as those of our rivers and dividing ridges.

From Project Gutenberg