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  Saratov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Legend of Saratov: Gelonus, a legendary Scythian city and the northernmost Greek colony, may be conjectured to have been situated in the locality of present-day Saratov.
Saratov was built in 1590 midway between Samara and Tsaritsyn at the instigation of count Grigory Zasekin.
Saratov Bridge across the Volga used to be the longest in Europe.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saratov   (712 words)

  
 -= Saratov Region =- [History]{
The fortress of Saratov was established in the summer of 1590 by a voevode Prince Grigory Osipovich Zasekin and the Strelets head Fyodor Mikhailovich Turov.
Piotr A. Stolypin (1862-1911) was in 1903 appointed the governor of the Saratov Province.
Saratov is the center of the Saratov Region of the Russian Federation, is a large industrial and agricultural region awarded in 1956 and 1970 with two supreme orders of the country.
www.sgtpp.renet.ru /region/eng_history.html   (1627 words)

  
 Welcome to Saratov
Saratov province is in the southeast of the East-European plain in the Lower Volga region, in the latitude between 49 48' and 52 49' north.
Natural conditions in Saratov province are not uniform: the north and northwest, on the right bank, is a forest-steppe, the rest of the right-bank region and almost all left-bank region, except for the extreme south, are steppes, and the southeast of the province is a semidesert.
Saratov is the educational center of Central Russia, with 9 institutions of higher education and 21 of research & science.
www.geocities.com /WallStreet/7138/text_6.htm   (1636 words)

  
 Russia > Saratov
Saratov is the regional center, a big junction of the Volga region railway system.
The main object of trade in Saratov at the end of the IX century was corn.
Stolypin was conferred the title of Honored Citizen of Saratov for the opening of Saratov State University.
www.storruss.com /stories/russia/cities/russiasaratov.shtml   (437 words)

  
 Saratov region
Saratov was founded in 1590 as a small wooden fortress to protect Russian frontiers from nomads from the Volga steppes.
Saratov is one of the biggest rail junctions in Russia.
Saratov is one of the largest river ports in the Volga region.
www.geocities.com /WallStreet/7138/text_4.htm   (609 words)

  
 Saratov Hotels.
Saratov has a size of close to 380 square kilometres and a population of about nine hundred thousand people.
Saratov was famed for the longest straight street in Europe, Moskovskaya (Moscow) street.
Among the landmarks of modern Saratov is one of the longest bridges in Europe, 2.8 kilometres long.
www.hotels-russia.info /saratov.htm   (366 words)

  
 IALHI News Service: Civil War in Saratov   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
A chapter on the "Saratov republic" examines the tensions between the local leaders, with their immediate, local concerns, and the government in Moscow, with its urge towards centralization.
For Russia as a whole, the end of the civil war and the introduction of NEP in 1921 are often seen as a turning point in the fortunes of the regime, which was able to consolidate itself, and of the economy, which was able to halt and reverse its collapse.
Saratov province was ravaged by famine from 1921 and remained unable to feed itself until 1925.
www.iisg.nl /~ialhi/news/i0408_4.php   (1421 words)

  
 Kommersant - Russia's Daily Online
Saratov's history began in the second half of the 16th century, when, after completing the formation of a centralized Russian state, Tsar Ivan the Terrible finally defeated the remnants of the Golden Horde on the Middle and Lower Volga.
Saratov Province was a territory with well-developed agriculture and processing industries, fairly high literacy levels among the population, and highly developed cultural forms (theater, fine arts, literature, and publishing).
Saratov's transformation into the provincial capital was accompanied by the appearance of a large number of private enterprises and rapid growth of trade.
www.kommersant.com /tree.asp?rubric=5&node=412&doc_id=-68   (3099 words)

  
 Saratov, Russia Home Page
Saratov (1584), along with two other cities, Samara (1586) and Tsaritsyn (1589) were founded as frontier garrisons on the Volga to protect merchant ships on this waterways from being robbed.
In the 1760's, colonists primarily from Germany settled in Saratov and the surrounding steppe near the Volga River.
Saratov grew from a small provincial outpost to become one of the largest and most prosperous cities in Russia.
www.volgagermans.net /saratov   (246 words)

  
 Saratov Hotels. Airline Tickets Saratov, Russia. (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Once the capital of the Lower-Volga region, Saratov is now a modern city located in the center of one of the biggest provinces in Russia.
Saratov was founded in 1590 in the heart of the Volga River Valley.
Among the landmarks of modern Saratov one of the longest bridges in Europe (4,5 km long) should be mentioned.
www.visitrussia.com.cob-web.org:8888 /citiesguide/saratov/saratov.htm   (242 words)

  
 Saratov City Guide
Saratov is an important railway junction, connecting the center of Russia with the Urals, Siberia and Asia.
Currently there are four institutes affiliated with the Russian Academy of science conducting research in Saratov: the Institute of Plant biology and Physiology of plants and Microorganisms, the Institute of the Social and Economic problems of the development of the Agro-industrial Complex, branches of the Radio and Electronics Institute and of the Blagonravov Engineering Institute.
Saratov offers some recreational opportunities for those who want to enjoy life: beautifully maintained parks, picnic areas, swimming pools and, of course, beaches along the Volga where it is possible to engage in swimming, water skiing, boating and fishing.
www.geocities.com /WallStreet/7138/text_7.htm   (857 words)

  
 Saratov State University
Saratov State University is one of the oldest Higher Educational Institutions in Russia with rich history.
Saratov State University botanic garden is a complex, which is unique not only for the Low Volga area but also for the whole South-East areas of Russia.
Saratov University graduation certificate is a kind of a pass into challenging though exciting life of modern Russia.
storruss.com /stories/russia/university/saratovstateuniversity.shtml   (1362 words)

  
 Saratov - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
910,000), capital of Saratov region, E European Russia, on the Volga River.
Saratov's industries produce precision instruments, building materials, machine tools, and electric generators.
The city has a museum and a university named in honor of the literary critic N. Chernyshevsky, who was born there.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-saratov.html   (277 words)

  
 Saratov - Regional Profile from the Russian American Chamber of Commerce®
The main trends of the regional agriculture are determined by grain-crabs, meat and milk cattle-breeding and meat and wool sheep-breeding.
Saratov University, one of the oldest in Russia, was founded in 1909.
Saratov Art Gallery named after Radischev is famous for its enormous collections of the Old-Russian, Russian avant-garde and Western-European works of art as well as for works of the Soviet period.
www.russianamericanchamber.org /regions/Saratov.html   (1221 words)

  
 OVERVIEW OF THE SARATOV REGION (OBLAST)
The Saratov region occupies a territory of 101,200 sq.
The administrative center (capital) of the region is Saratov with a population of approximately 900,000 residents.
Saratov is one of the largest river ports on the Volga.
www.russiancouncil.org /reports/saratovregion.html   (1393 words)

  
 Sample Chapter for Raleigh, D.J.: Experiencing Russia's Civil War: Politics, Society, and Revolutionary Culture in ...
Saratov similarly affords a suitable setting in which to explore Bolshevik efforts during the Civil War to construct Soviet power both politically and linguistically, because it remained in Bolshevik hands throughout the tortuous ordeal that lasted locally from 1917 until 1922.
Following an independent course with their Left SR allies, they declared Saratov a "republic," an action that gave rise to Moscow's charges of "localism." This first heady phase in the local civil war ended with the Center's recall of Saratov's most prominent local Bolshevik leaders at the close of 1918.
Chapter 6 documents the physical impact of civil war on Saratov as a community or set of social relations, underscoring the extent to which Saratov during the Civil War was not only a community in disarray, but also a community in the making.
www.pupress.princeton.edu /chapters/i7387.html   (3395 words)

  
 Saratov - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Saratov, city and capital of Saratov Oblast in southern European Russia, a port on the River Volga.
Chernyshevsky, Nikolay Gavrilovich (1828-1889), Russian writer and political leader, born in Saratov, and educated at the University of St...
The massacre precipitated a series of events that became known as the Revolution of 1905.
uk.encarta.msn.com /Saratov.html   (100 words)

  
 -= Saratov Region =- [Investition climate]
On November 12, 1997 the Saratov Regional Duma adopted the Saratov region Law "On Land", which immediately determined that the citizens of the Russian Federation may possess lots of land in the Saratov region according to the right to personal property.
However, the Saratov region law, which was echoed all over Russia and was noted by all information agencies, is only one part of the normative legislative base of the region, securing the irreversibility of the Russian economy reformation process.
On February 19, 1997 the Saratov Regional Duma adopted the Law "On Private Investments Protection in the Saratov Region", which determines that in the Saratov region within three years regional and unlawful normative acts are not valid, in case that they deteriorate the conditions of an investment in comparison with the prior concluded investment contract.
www.sgtpp.renet.ru /region/eng_investition.html   (1276 words)

  
 Saratov città della regione del Volga: museo regionale e etnografico, muziei kraevedenia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Saratov città della regione del Volga: museo regionale e etnografico, muziei kraevedenia
Le sue collezioni sono state con il tempo arricchite e completate, anche con l'aiuto dell'università di Saratov, in particolare a partire dagli anni 20 del XX secolo, ad opera del professore ed etnologo Boris Sokolov.
Saratov ricostruita dai tempi della preistoria, quando era solo un modesto villaggio di capanne lungo il Volga, fino ai giorni nostri.
www.cozy-corner.com /italianpages/viaggi/saratov_regional_museum.htm   (889 words)

  
 Saratov Aviation Plant - Russian Defense Industry
The Oblast's capital city, Saratov, is considered by many to be the industrial, scientific and cultural center of the greater Lower Volga region.
Saratov is home to more than 2,000 large and medium-size enterprises.
The Saratov region's 1995 economic output was approximately 22 8 billion rubles ($5 billion USD) Machine building and the petrochemical and chemical industries form the largest share of the region's economy, with a combined share of 52 %.
www.fas.org /nuke/guide/russia/industry/saratov.htm   (471 words)

  
 Your internship in Saratov
Saratov is a beautiful city with a long history located next to the river Volga.
Saratov is also connected to Moscow, Saint Petersburg, the Western Ural, the Baltic countries and to the Black and White Sea by a chanal system.
Saratov is the former capital of the republic of Volga-Germans in the Soviet Union.
www.fec-tc.ru /internship.html?sub=4   (732 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Saratov   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Saratov (Сара́тов) is a major city in southern European Russia.
It is the capital of Saratov Oblast and a major port on the Volga river.
Images, some of which are used under the doctrine of Fair use or used with permission, may not be available.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Saratov   (135 words)

  
 Ambassador Vershbow Visits Saratov: World AIDS Day
Ambassador Vershbow's trip to Saratov coincided with the December 1 observation of World AIDS Awareness Day, and in recognition of this the Ambassador participated in a number of local events drawing attention to the growing problem of HIV/AIDS in Saratov Oblast and Russia as a whole.
As it turned out, Saratov was a very appropriate place to draw attention to the growing AIDS epidemic.
Saratov's NGOs and local health organizations are doing the best that they can under the circumstances, but much more will be needed if the course of the HIV/AIDS epidemic is to be slowed.
www.usembassy.ru /embassy/print_photo.php?record_id=6   (849 words)

  
 Geographical Position
The main trends of the regional agriculture are determined by grain-crabs, meat, and milk cattle-breeding, as well as meet and wool sheep-breeding.
The Saratov Region is one of the leading Russian producers of winter wheat.
The Saratov Regional Duma adopted a number of laws to stimulate and guarantee investments in the Region, including the Laws On Guarantees of Private Investments in the
www.russianamericanchamber.org /newsletter/saratovregion.htm   (1374 words)

  
 SPIE Proceedings Vol. 3726
Abstract: In the present paper the polarization-transverse patterns in the multimode vector-field laser with no restriction imposed on the transverse mode number are studied numerically using the dynamical model, in which the saturation of the working transition is described analytically.
Abstract: A new coherent laser multi-pulse technique is proposed to measure the population of the individual metastable state of antiprotonic helium `atomcules' and to control the decay kinetics in the adjacent transition chains.
Abstract: The near-infrared spectroscopy technique is being used for non-invasive in vivo measurements and quantifying of oxygenation of hemoglobin in the skin microcirculation.
www.spie.org /web/abstracts/3700/3726.html   (6949 words)

  
 Saratov
SARATOV, Central Russia — The Communist Party in the Saratov region obtained copies of the protocols from 1,520 of the region's 1,815 polling stations.
They also found the results in 982 polling stations were altered later for discrepancies, and that there was evidence of direct fraud at 138 polling stations, where the votes for Putin were padded.
Olga Alimova, a secretary of the Saratov branch of the Communist Party, said that 3,040 votes were taken from Gennady Zyuganov, and even more were taken from Yabloko candidate Grigory Yavlinsky.
www.themoscowtimes.com /stories/2000/09/09/103.html   (234 words)

  
 Saratov Region (Russia)
It was newly approved in 2000, superceeding the previous one; differences concern mainly the wreath and the crown.
The shield of the Saratov coat of arms has remained without changes such, with what he was created in 1724-1726 years by first Russian heraldist count Francisco de Santi (Piemont) and with what he was authorized for Saratov Gouverment (Gubernija) in 1781.
Such are a flag in studies of the governor of the Saratov Oblast.
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/ru-64.html   (597 words)

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