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Pugachyov

Also known as Pugachev, Mechetnaya, Nikolayevsk

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:

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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Culture
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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.

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