Pugachyov
Sign in to savePugachyov () is a town in Saratov Oblast, Russia, located on the Bolshoy Irgiz River (Volga's tributary), northeast of Saratov, the administrative center of the oblast. Population:
Key facts
- Russian inhabited locality.en_name
- Pugachyov
- Russian inhabited locality.ru_name
- Пугачёв
- Russian inhabited locality.image_skyline
- Пугачёв Воскресенский собор 16 августа 2017.jpg
- Russian inhabited locality.image_caption
- Church of the Resurrection of Christ
- Russian inhabited locality.map_label_position
- bottom
- Russian inhabited locality.image_coa
- Coat of Arms of Pugachyov (Saratov oblast).png
- Russian inhabited locality.federal_subject
- Saratov Oblast
- Russian inhabited locality.adm_city_jur
- Pugachyov Town Under Oblast Jurisdiction
- Russian inhabited locality.adm_ctr_of1
- Pugachyovsky District
- Russian inhabited locality.adm_ctr_of2
- Pugachyov Town Under Oblast Jurisdiction
- Russian inhabited locality.inhabloc_cat
- Town
- Russian inhabited locality.mun_district_jur
- Pugachyovsky Municipal District
- Russian inhabited locality.urban_settlement_jur
- Pugachyov Urban Settlement
- Russian inhabited locality.mun_admctr_of1
- Pugachyovsky Municipal District
- Russian inhabited locality.mun_admctr_of2
- Pugachyov Urban Settlement
- Russian inhabited locality.pop_2010census
- 41707
- Russian inhabited locality.established_date
- 1764
- Russian inhabited locality.current_cat_date
- 1835
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Pugachyov () is a town in Saratov Oblast, Russia, located on the Bolshoy Irgiz River (Volga's tributary), northeast of Saratov, the administrative center of the oblast. Population:
==History== It was founded as the sloboda of Mechetnaya () in 1764 by Old Believers who returned from Poland. In 1835, it was granted town status and renamed Nikolayevsk (), after the Tsar Nicholas I. In 1918, it was renamed after Yemelyan Pugachev, leader of the Cossack insurrection of the 1770s.