Landing site of the first spaceman in the world Yuri Gagarin is located in Engels District of Saratov region.
The hero of the Soviet Union, cosmonaut and colonel Yuri Gagarin shared his impressions after the first space flight with Saratov youth: “Down flashed the Volga River.
Russia. Saratov region, the landing place, of the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.
One of the villages where the Volga Germans lived, Saratov region.
The Volga Germans are one of the peoples that formed in Russia by the beginning of the 20th century from the descendants of immigrants, mainly from the German states, settled on the basis of the manifestos of Catherine II in the Lower Volga region in the 1760s and lived there until 1941. After the October Revolution of 1917, they received territorial autonomy – the Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of the Volga Germans. In 1941, after the German attack on the USSR, they were deported to Siberia and Kazakhstan. The deportation of the Germans led to the decline of the national language and culture, to accelerated assimilation with the rest of the population of the USSR. The consequences of the deportation caused the emergence of the resettlement movement to Germany, which especially intensified in the 1990s.
Map Volga German cities and settlements
Saratov Region, Volga River.
Volga is a river in the European part of Russia. One of the largest rivers on Earth and the largest in terms of water content, basin area and length in Europe. The length of the river is 3530 km.
