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SARATOV , a See also:town of See also:Russia, See also:capital of the See also:government of the same name, on the right See also:bank of the See also:Volga, 532 M. by See also:rail S.E. of See also:Moscow. It is one of the most important cities of eastern Russia, and is picturesquely situated on the See also:side of hills which come See also:close down to the Volga. One of these, the Sokolova (56o ft.), is liable to frequent landslips, and is a continual source of danger. The See also:city is divided into three parts by two ravines; the See also:outer two may be considered as suburbs. A large See also:village, Pokrovsk (pop. 20,000), situated on the opposite bank of the Volga, though in the government of See also:Samara, is in reality a suburb of Saratov. Apart from this suburb, Saratov had in 1882 a See also:population of 112,430 (49,660 in 183o, and 69,66o in 1859), and 143,431 in 1900. It is the see of an Orthodox See also:Greek See also:bishop and of a See also:Roman See also:Catholic bishop, and is better built than many towns of central Russia. Its old See also:cathedral (1697) is a very See also:plain structure, but the new one, completed in 1825, is See also:fine, and has a striking campanile. The See also:theatre and the railway station are also fine buildings. The streets are wide and See also:regular, and there are several broad squares. A new fine-See also:art See also:gallery was erected in 1884 by the painter Bogolubov, who bequeathed to the city his collection of See also:modern pictures and See also:objects of art. A school of See also:drawing and the public library are in the same See also:building, the Radishchev Museum. See also:Agriculture and gardening support a See also:section of the population. The cultivation of the See also:sunflower deserves See also:special mention. Of the manufacturing establishments the distilleries See also:rank first in importance; next come the liqueur factories, See also:flour-See also:mills, oil-See also:works, railway workshops and See also:tobacco-factories. The city has a See also:trade not only in See also:corn, oil, hides, See also:tallow, woollen See also:cloth, See also:wool, fruits and various raw produce exported from Samara, but also in See also:salt from the See also:Crimea and See also:Astrakhan, in See also:iron from the Urals and in wooden wares from the upper Volga governments. Saratov also supplies See also:south-eastern Russia with manufactured articles and grocery wares imported from central Russia. The shallowness of the Volga opposite the town and the immense shoals along its right bank are, however, a See also:great See also:drawback to its usefulness as a See also:river-See also:port. The town of Saratov was founded at the end of the 16th See also:century, on the See also:left bank of the Volga, some 7 M. above the See also:present site, to which it was removed about 1605. The See also:place it now occupies (Sary-tau or Yellow See also:Mountain) has been inhabited from remote antiquity. Although founded for the See also:maintenance of See also:order in the Volga region, Saratov was several times pillaged in the 17th and 18th centuries. The See also:peasant See also:leader Stenka See also:Razin took it, and his followers kept it until 1671; the insurgent See also:Cossacks of the See also:Don pillaged it in 1708 and the See also:rebel See also:Pugachev in 1774. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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