UBZD is considered one of the best in the province! And only the southern part of it, adjacent to Tsaritsynsky UZD, represents a sun-scorched steppe. Having a convenient pier, Kamyptin, as a city, is not particularly remarkable.
In the old days, during the era of the development of the Volga robberies, Kamyshin played a prominent role, since the Kamyshtinka River provided many conveniences for reckless freemen and served as a highway, along which it was easy to move from the Don to the Volga. Peter the Great also intended to use it to connect the Volga with the Don by digging a canal from the upper reaches of the Kamyshtinka to the Don tributary, Ilovlya. This case failed, as it seems due to the incredible embezzlement on the part of the persons who were entrusted with the execution of the enterprise; at least we know that the canal was not dug, despite the large sums spent on it, and the head of the work took his life at the moment when it was necessary to submit a report to the treasury on his work. The method of suicide was chosen to be extremely original, completely in keeping with the spirit of the sweeping Russian nature: the thieving boss got into a carriage drawn by three wild horses, took the car in his hands and, having dispersed the whole trio to the Volga bank, flew off the steep slope into the river.
The question of the canal was also raised by the ambassador of Peter the Great; Research was carried out, projects were drawn up, but things still didn’t go well. It all ended with the fact that in 1870 a railway was built that connected the Don with the Volga near Tsaritsyn.
On the way from Kamyshin to Dubovk there are rich large villages, of which, for example, the settlement of Nikolaevskaya and Bykovy Khutora, located on the left bank of the Volga, compete with Kamyshin and the size of trade turnover, and partly by the degree of population. Even in the area of its specialty - Kamyipin
— 99 famous for watermelons, of which there are a great many from here along the Volg-Uezdny town, it is difficult to fight with the village: Bykov farms supply watermelons almost more than VKamyshin, and moreover, these watermelons, known under the name “Bykovsky”, are, however, not large, but remarkably tasty and sweet; At the best time of the year there are whole mountains of such watermelons on the nearest Volga piers and they are sold for 40 kopecks per dozen.
Opposite the Bykov farms is the village of Korovainka, the name of which comes from the original feature of the right bank of the Volga in this area: it is all strewn with stones-boulders, in their color, shape and size, eerily similar to cows and black bread; These boulders are very hard, it is extremely difficult to break them, and therefore they do not even fit on the paved streets.
Located on the right bank of the Volga below Kamyishtin, Dubovka Posad was once the main city of the Volga Cossack army; From this honorable position, he was demoted after the Pugachev rebellion to the rank of posad, in which he remains to the present time, without the honor of being at least the Ufzd city of the Saratov province.
As a Volzhekaya pier and as a commercial and industrial point, Dubovka in the past played a very prominent role; This situation took a turn for the worse with the construction of the Volga-Don Railway, which dealt Dubovka such an economic blow that the settlement will only recover from that."
if ever a rail track connects it with the Gryaze-Tsaritsa railway; otherwise, the settlement will forever lose its way of communication, connecting it with the Don and the ports of the Azov Sea. It must be said truthfully that all this sad circumstance was based on the amazing negligence and lack of enterprise of the Dubovka settlement itself. The fact is that even before the construction of the railway from Kalach to Tsaritsyn to Dubovk, there was a horse-drawn railway connecting the settlement
— 123 with Don; but this road was distinguished by a very strange feature: being laid along its entire length, it did not reach about 9 versts from the bank of the Volga and ended at approximately the same distance from the bank of the Don. It is clear that with these conditions, shippers faced so much extra hassle and expense in the form of loading and unloading that they preferred to transport goods in the primitive way, on oxen. At the sight of the long ox trains heading parallel to their horsecars, the oak tycoons in their naivety did not realize the need to bring both ends of the horsecar to the actual end; Nor did they realize that whatever their tram line was, it had, to a certain extent, prepared the way for a steam railway, the construction of which on the finished track would, of course, be doubly profitable. Such slow-wittedness led to natural consequences in the form of an economic blow, from which the settlement cannot recover to this day.