The city of Saratov is one of the largest in its region, and it has long turned into a local center of economy and industry. It has a very long history, which you can get acquainted with while walking along the Saratov streets or visiting the local museum of local lore, which has an impressive collection of exhibits.
Winters are cold. The soil in the city sometimes freezes 1-1.5 meters deep. In the 19th century, there was a horse railway in Saratov. Peter Stolypin, a famous reformer, at one time held the post of Saratov governor. N. N. Semenov, the only Russian ever to receive the Nobel Prize in chemistry, was born in Saratov. On the hottest day, the temperature was recorded at plus 40.9 degrees Celsius, and on the coldest night minus 37.3 degrees. The first man in space, Yuri Gagarin, studied in Saratov. Mironov and Tabakov, one of the most famous actors of the Soviet era, were natives of Saratov. This city is surrounded on three sides by hills with a height of up to 250 m. At one time, there was a project to merge Saratov and Engels, the Saratov satellite city. However, residents opposed this decision, and the project was turned off.
During the uprising of Emelyan Pugachev, the rebel army captured Saratov after a long battle, but after four days the government troops recaptured the city. For decades, Saratov unofficially held the title of the flour capital of the Russian Empire, since it was once here that the first steam-powered mills in the country appeared here. At that time they were very modern. In Saratov, many descendants of the Germans live. For a long time these lands were practically not populated, and then Catherine II allocated these lands to foreign colonists. Many of them came from German territories. Long before the foundation of Saratov, the site of the Golden Horde settlement was located at this place. The area of this city exceeds the area of Malta.
The main Saratov market was opened over a century ago. The famous artist Bogolyubov, a native of Saratov, bequeathed to his native city many of his paintings. Now Volga-city is the largest city in the Volga region in terms of population, but at the beginning of the 20th century, Saratov occupied the first place. Saratov is one of the twenty largest cities in the Russian Federation. It was founded as a watch fortress to protect the borders. The first circus and the first museum in Saratov appeared earlier than in all other cities in the region.
