| I have researched contraband caviar in Azerbaijan, in Astrakhan, and Moscow and have seen the toll it took on depleting fish stocks. |
| In ten hours she had covered the twelve hundred miles which separate Astrakhan from the ancient capital of all the Russias. |
| Although it was considered that the species would not be able to establish there, it was found covering 5 km of the Volga River near Astrakhan the following year. |
| Astrakhan farmers, cut the throats of pregnant sheep, slit open their wombs and pull out the soon-to-be born living lamb. |
| Kalmyks, a largely Buddhist ethnic group of Mongol ancestry, are centered in the Kalmykia region, which neighbors Astrakhan. |
| He invited IOC to participate in the International Conference on sturgeon planned for September this year in Astrakhan. |
