Saratov province (Geographic Playing Card)

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Title:

Saratov province

Subject:

Regional Diversity

Creator:

Konstantin Matveevich Gribanov

Source:

Album of Geographical Playing Cards of Russia, arranged on 80 cards according to maritime basin (A wonderful and instructive child's game of patience)

Publisher:

Library of Congress; Russian National Library

Date:

1856

Rights:

Access provided by the Library of Congress strictly for noncommercial educational and research purposes.

Language:

Russian

Region:

Lower Volga region

Capital:

Saratov

Area (sq. miles):

44,110

Population:

1,330,700

Population density:

30.2 people per square mile

Ethnicity of inhabitants:

Russians, Ukrainians, Germans, Gypsies, French, Swedes, Swiss, Tatars, Chuvash, Mordvinians, Meshchers

Economic activities:

crop farming, cattle farming, orchardry, tobacco cultivation, beekeeping, fishing

Trade:

Internal and external trade is extremely significant.

Cities:

Notable features:

Dubovka and Tsaritsynskaia piers. Saratov was founded in 1591 by Tsar Feodor Ioa[n]novich.