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| | -= Saratov Region =- [Culture] |
 | | They are Saratov (founded in 1590), Atkarsk (1780), Balakovo (1780), Balashov (1780), Volsk (1780), Novouzensk (1835), Petrovsk (1698), Pugachov (originally founded under the name of Nikolayevsk in the year 1835), Khvalynsk (1780) and Engels (originally founded under the name of Petrovsk in the year 1914). |
 | | The State museum of K.Fedin, House-Museum of N. Chernyshevsky, museum of L.Kassil (city of Engels), museums of local history and picture galleries of the towns of Volsk, Petrovsk, Khvalynsk are famous for their collections. |
 | | Khvalynsk is the birth place of the Russian artist K.Petrov-Vodkin. |
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