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11 unusual facts about Saratov


Aleksandr Lopukhin

Aleksandr Pavlovich Lopukhin (Saratov district, 10 October 1852-Saint Petersburg, 1904) was a Russian Bible commentator best known for the Lopukhin Bible (1904).

Elektronika 7

All the street and wall clocks were based on a kit by the "Reflector" factory in Saratov and many remain in use at administrative and industrial premises in Russia.

Eliezer Poupko

Rabbi Poupko married Pesha Chaya, a daughter of the Rabbi of Kenna near Vilna and subsequently of Saratov.

Hugo Stoltzenberg

The Soviets wanted to modernize their chemical arsenal and asked Stoltzenberg to become a chief engineer in replacing the chlorine gas plant at Saratov with a modern mustard gas plant.

Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan

In 1992, the party hosted a conference in Saratov, Russia, attended by Islamists from ex-Soviet central Asia, Tatarstan and Bashkortostan.

Roman Catholicism in Abkhazia

After the Abkhaz war in 1993 Sukhumi Catholic community because of the inability of service priests from Georgia was transferred to the care of the diocese of Saint Clement in Saratov.

Sovtek

In the 1990s Sovtek also manufactured tube amplifiers at factories in St. Petersburg, Saratov, and Novosibirsk.

The Saratov Approach

The movie is about the 1998 kidnapping of the two Mormon missionaries, Andrew Lee Propst and Travis Robert Tuttle in Saratov, Russia.

Victoria, Kansas

In 1876, Volga Germans from villages near Saratov, Russia established the settlement of Herzog one half mile north of Victoria.

Viktor Avilov

Avilov graduated from Saratov University in 1928 and went on to study at the Higher Diplomatic School of the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs.

Yakovlev Yak-25

483 were built at Saratov plant, including 406 in Yak-25M variant, and 10 in Yak-25R reconnaissance variant.


1899 Russian student strike

By 1914 there were ten universities, half in Russia proper (Moscow, St Petersburg, Saratov, Kazan and Tomsk) and the other half in minority regions (Warsaw, Odessa, Kiev, Kharkov and Iurev).

Aleksandr Nechayev

Aleksandr Yevgenyevich Nechayev (b. 1989), Russian footballer with FC Saturn Moscow Oblast and FC Sokol-Saratov

Bucharest North railway station

As of 2009, Gara de Nord served about 200 trains, including domestic trains operated by Căile Ferate Române, Regiotrans and Trans Feroviar calatori as well international trains to Hungary - Budapest, Bulgaria - Sofia, Varna and Burgas, Republic of Moldova - Chișinău, Ukraine - Kiev, Chernivtsi, Austria - Vienna, Turkey - Istanbul, Russia - Moscow and Saratov, Belarus - Minsk and Dnepropetrovsk.

Chuvashia

In the eastern part of Chuvashia, the federal road A-151 runs from Tsivilsk through Kanash, Komsomolskoye, Chkalovskoye, Karabay-Shemursha, Shemursha to Ulyanovsk and Saratov.

Evgeny Sheyko

2001–10 – Guest Conductor of opera and ballet festivals in Russian cities: Perm, Samara, Chelyabinsk, Krasnoyarsk, Cheboksary, Saratov

Gelonus

Several other locations have traditionally been named by Russian archaeologists, such as Saratov (according to Ivan Zabelin) or a location near the Don River closer to the Volga River.

Institute of International Programs of PetrSU

By that time such centres had existed in Saint-Petersburg, Saratov, Kazan, Kaliningrad, at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow), Moscow State International Institute of International Relations and Moscow State University.

Pavel Kuznetsov

He studied at Saratov at Bogolyubov Art School (1891-6), then Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1897–1904) and for a year in Paris (1905).

Princess Helene Dolgoruki

Sometime around 1843-1847 General Fadeyev was appointed Imperial Councillor to the Viceroy of the Caucasus (perhaps First Viceroy Count (later Prince) Mikhail Vorontsov although Blavatsky says "Woronzoff"), and the family moved from Saratov to an even more imposing castle at Tiflis.

Stepan Shevyryov

Stepan Petrovich Shevyryov (Степа′н Петро′вич Шевырё′в, October 30 (18), 1806, Saratov, Russian Empire, - May 20 (8), 1864, Paris, France) was a conservative Russian literary historian and poet, a virulent critic of "the rotting West", and leading representative of the Official Nationality theory.

Tatiana Stepanova

Since 1985, is a Teacher of Ballet, giving classes in Odessa (Ukraine), Saratov and Saint Petersburg (Russia), Madrid, Valencia, Puertollano and Lugo (Spain) and Ashiya and Nishinomiya (Japan)

Valery Radayev

Radaev was born April 2, 1961, in the village of Blagodatnoe that is in Khvalynsky District of Saratov Oblast.

Vasili Razumovsky

Rasumovsky was among the founders of universities at Saratov (1909), Tbilisi (1918), and Baku (1919), and was the first rector of Baku State University (1919-1920).

Vasiliy Arsentevich Barabanov

Here he headed labour camps, railway and military projects in Ukhta, Vorkuta, Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Saratov and Pechora.

Yakovlev Yak-54

It was produced by Saratov Aviation Facility in cooperation with JSV "Gorky U-2" up to 2005, when the production moved to the Arsenyev Aviation Company "Progress" facility in Arsenyev.