In the Samara region, the national park and the river are drowning in impurity. The authorities and the population is profitable not to notice this A worn pipe, waste from which flow into the Samara River. Photo: Igor Bogatinov As they are not called: the pearl of the Volga region, an oasis in the steppe, a forest island. And they say that if it were not for him, then in the place of the Samara and Orenburg regions would a desert, inspired by winds from Kazakhstan, would have extended.