Coordinates: 51°29′N 46°07′E / 51.483, 46.117

Coat of arms of Engels

A memorial in Stadt der Friedrich Engels

Bridge from Saratov to Stadt der Friedrich Engels

Engels (Russian: Э́нгельс) is a city in Saratov Oblast, Russia. A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. Russian ( transliteration:,) is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages The classification system of the types of inhabited localities in Russia, the former Soviet Union, and some other post-Soviet states has certain peculiarities compared Saratov Oblast (Сара́товская о́бласть Saratovskaya oblast) is a federal subject of Russia (an Oblast) located Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending It is a port on the Volga River, located across from Saratov and connected to it with a bridge (since 1965). ||-||-|-||-||-||-||-||-||-|} A port is a facility for receiving Ships and transferring cargo History The Legend of Saratov Gelonus, a legendary Scythian city and the northernmost Greek colony may be conjectured to have been situated in the locality Population: 193,984 (2002 Census);^[1] 181,201 (1989 Census);^[2] 163,000 (1977); 130,000 (1970); 91,000 (1959); 22,000 (1897). Russian Census of 2002 (Всеросси́йская пе́репись населе́ния 2002 го́да was the first Census of the Russian Federation carried The 1989 Soviet Census was the final and most comprehensive census taken within the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Founded in 1747 as Pokrovskaya sloboda (Покровская слобода), it was granted town status and renamed Pokrovsk (Покровск) in 1914. Sloboda was a kind of settlement in the history of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. Its German name was Kosakenstadt. The German language (de ''Deutsch'') is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages. It became the capital of the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, now a part of Saratov Oblast, in 1924, and it was renamed Engels after Friedrich Engels in 1931. The Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic ( German: Autonome Sozialistische Sowjetrepublik der Wolgadeutschen, abbreviated A Saratov Oblast (Сара́товская о́бласть Saratovskaya oblast) is a federal subject of Russia (an Oblast) located Friedrich Engels (28 November 1820 – 5 August 1895 was a German social scientist and philosopher, who

It was founded by Ukrainian settlers, and was settled by Germans during the reign of Catherine the Great; it is now a major center of Volga German culture. Ukrainians (Українці Ukrayintsi,) are an East Slavic Ethnic group primarily living in Ukraine, or more broadly— Citizens This article is about the German diaspora See Germans for the German ethnicity in general Catherine II, called Catherine the Great (Екатерина II Великая Yekaterina II Velikaya;) reigned as Empress of Russia for 34 years The Volga Germans (Wolgadeutsche or Russlanddeutsche) were Ethnic Germans living along the Volga River in the region of southern European Russia It is the site of Engels-1, Russia's largest and most active strategic bomber base.

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