That's an astonishing amount of travel to think about without modern means. Talk about determined!

The Volga trade route developed to the north-east of Staraya Ladoga towards the end of the 8th century CE to establish trade links with the Volga Bulgars and further south with the Khazar Khanate and via the Caspian Sea to the Abbasid Caliphate and Baghdad (shown in red on the map of the Varangian trade routes above). They would reach the large slave markets of the Volga Bulgars, the Khazars, and the Caliphate, where they could sell the many caught on the way south or bought at Staraya Ladoga.
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