In terms of its highly developed factory business, Dubovka occupies a very prominent location in the Saratov province; The main subject of its production is bread. There are up to 20 flour mills in the settlement; in addition, Dubovka produces a fair amount of carpets, similar in appearance and quality to the so-called Siberian ones; the sale of flowers, and especially oleander, also constitutes a certain branch of industry there; If, while navigating, a tourist pays attention to the abundance of oleanders at various shipping counters, then let him know that all this variety of flowers was delivered from Dubovka. The site's location is very beautiful and the view from the Volga is quite nice. Once a year, the so-called Trinity Fair took place in Dubov, lasting from May 9 to Monday 9. Its turnover, which had once been quite significant, began to decline noticeably from the time when Posad and his trade
Chenpo suffered the above economic blow.
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Aritsyn, a county town in the Saratov province with thirty-five thousand inhabitants, is located on the right bank of the Volga, at the confluence of the tiny Tsaritsa River, where the Volga most closely meets the Don.
There are several legends regarding the founding of Tsaritsyn; one of them says that the city received its name from the river, called the Queen, because according to the khan's wife loved to walk along its banks; according to another legend, one of the khan’s daughters, who secretly converted to Orthodoxy, died a martyr on the banks of this river; In memory of her, the river was named Tsarina, and hence the name of the city. In essence, Tsaritsyn, like Saratov, got its name from the Tatar word Sari-chin, which means yellow sand. In the XX century, the entire area of the region where Tsaritsyn is located was the domain of the Golden Horde, whose main headquarters were located 50 versts from Tsaritsyn, where the city of Tsarev of the Astrakhan province is now located, located on Akhtub (the main channel of the Volga).
In 1558, shortly after the conquest of Kazan, the Tsaritsyn fortress was built, according to the command of Tonn the Terrible, on the left bank of the Volga, five miles below the present Tsaritsyn; The place chosen for her turned out to be very inconvenient, being flooded with water every flood; In view of this, the castle was moved to the right bank, to the moto where Tsaritsyn is now located. Service this guard post, located on the very outskirts of what was then Roseya, was extremely heavy, and the half-wild Nogai, and the Kirghiz nomads, and the thieving gangs of Cossacks who came here from the Don, and purebred Volga robbers - all this plagued Tsaritsyn to the utmost. Only with the establishment of some peace on the Volga and especially since 1780, when Tsaritsyn was made a county town of the then established Saratov province, did its growth begin little by little; but even then this growth in the first three quarters of the year was rather slow. It has become especially noticeable since the fifties of the present century, when there were from 5 to 6 thousand inhabitants. Over the next 40 years, the population increased 7 times.
When you approach Tsaritsyn, your eyes see from a distance a widely spread city with a whole forest of masts in front of it. Knowing about the importance of Tsaritsyn, located on the great waterway connecting the Volga with the Don by railway road and in turn connected by railways with the main centers of Roses, knowing about its rapid growth over the past day, you expect to see something wonderful that would meet your dreams based on the above considerations; but alas, your dreams are deceiving! As soon as you arrive at the shore, you are struck first of all by this very shore, showing a complete lack of amenities; potholes, ditches, pits and no occupational safety during the rains; an unfenced, unpaved embankment, washed away every year by the Volga, and behind it is a city that looks, no matter from which side you look at it, like a huge Russian-Asian village, with several villages crowded towards it. Veeeer, unpretentious and dirty or dusty, depending on the season; there are no pavements, street lighting is almost non-existent and only the trading area on which the shops are concentrated, las-
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ki, etc., at least somewhat resembles a city, and that is a city devoid of any concern for external beauty, order and neatness.