Saratov State Academy of Law

Saratov (UK: sə-RAH-tof, US: -⁠təf; Russian: Саратов, pronounced [sɐˈratəf] ) is the largest city and administrative center of Saratov Oblast, Russia, and a major port on the Volga River upstream of Volgograd. As of the 2021 Census, Saratov had a population of 901,361, making it the 17th-largest city in Russia by population. Saratov is 389 kilometres (242 mi) from Volgograd, 442 kilometres (275 mi) from Samara, and 858 kilometres (533 mi) southeast of Moscow. The city stands near the site of Uvek, a city of the Golden Horde. Tsar Feodor I of Russia likely developed Saratov as a fortress to secure Russia's southeastern border. Saratov developed as a shipping port along the Volga and was historically important to the Volga Germans, who settled in large numbers in the city before they were expelled before and during World War II. Saratov is home to a number of cultural and educational institutions, including the Saratov Drama Theater, Saratov Conservatory, Radishchev Art Museum, Saratov State Technical University, and Saratov State University.

Saratov Conservatory is a music conservatory in Russia. The conservatory in Saratov, was founded in 1912, and was the first provincial conservatory to be founded in Russia, after St Petersburg Conservatory and Moscow Conservatory. Saratov was, at the time, Russia's third city. The main building of the conservatory had been built in 1902 by architect Alexander Yulyevich Yagn, and originally it housed a music school. Before the opening of the conservatory in 1912, the building was reconstructed by the architect Semyon Akimovich Kallistratov. When Saratov Conservatory opened in September 1912, it immediately had 1,000 students ready to begin their studies. In 1935 the Conservatory was named after the tenor Leonid Sobinov.

Saratov Regional College of Arts is a secondary school for training in the arts in the city of Saratov, Russia. It was officially opened on December 26, 2014. The Saratov Regional College of Arts was founded by Stanislav Echsner as a music school in 1895. It is one of the oldest and most authoritative educational institutions of the Volga Region, but has never previously had a campus. The construction project provides accommodations for 156 students and living space for professors, tutors and classes, as well as medical facilities. Valery Radayev, the governor of Saratov region, attended the opening ceremony and noted that the accomplishment resulted from an important cooperation between business and government authorities.

Saratov State University of Genetics, Biotechnology and Engineering named after N.I. Vavilov (Russian: Саратовский государственный университет генетики, биотехнологии и инженерии имени Н. И. Вавилова is an agricultural higher education institution in the Volga region.

Soothe My Sorrows Church (Russian: Утоли моя печали) is a Russian Orthodox church in Saratov, Russia. The church is located in the center of the city, on Volzhskaya Street and is one of the landmarks of the city.The church was built between 1904 and 1906. The project was designed by Pyotr Zybin and inspired by the architecture of the Saint Basil's Cathedral in Moscow.

The Radishchev Art Museum in Saratov opened to the public on June 29, 1885. It is supposed to have been Russia's first major public art museum outside Moscow or St. Petersburg. It was founded by Alexey Bogolyubov and named after his grandfather, the 18th-century revolutionary writer Alexander Radishchev. The naming of the museum after the "first Russian revolutionary", Alexander Radishchev, was a direct challenge to the authorities: Bogolyubov had to endure a legal battle to get permission. It was the first art museum in Russia open to everybody. It was opened to the general public seven years earlier than the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow and fifteen years earlier than the Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg. It includes work by Camille Corot, Auguste Rodin, Ivan Kramskoy, Vasily Polenov, Ilya Repin, Ivan Shishkin, Fyodor Vasilyev, Aleksandra Ekster, Pavel Kuznetsov, Aristarkh Lentulov, Robert Falk, Pyotr Konchalovsky, Martiros Saryan, Fyodor Rokotov and others. Early donors included Pavel Tretyakov and Pauline Viardot.During the Great Patriotic War, future Director of the Belarusian National Art Museum, Alena Aladava, worked there.

The Saratov State Medical University (SSMU) (рус. Саратовский государственный медицинский университет им. В. И. Разумовского; Saratov State Medical University named after V.I. Razumovsky; Razumovsky University) is a public university located in Saratov, Saratov Oblast, Russia.

Saratov Chernyshevsky State University (Russian: Саратовский государственный университет имени Н. Г. Чернышевского, СГУ, transcribed as SGU) is a higher education and research institution in Russia. In 2023 it was ranked #1,156 in the world by US News & World Report.Named for Nikolay Chernyshevsky, the university was founded in 1909 under the name Imperial Saratov University by the Decree of Emperor Nicholas II. On June 10, 1909, the Emperor signed the "Decree on the foundation of the university in Saratov", which became the tenth University in Russia and consisted of the Medical Faculty only. Professor V.I. Razumovsky became the first university rector. He was a public figure, surgeon, and scientist. Construction of university buildings as well as the university clinic named after S.R. Mirotvortsev was carried out under the supervision of Russian architect Karl Hermann Ludwig Müffke. The Regional Institute for Microbiology and Epidemiology in South East Russia opened in the city in 1919.It is located in Saratov, a city in the southeast of the European part of Russia, on the right bank of the Volga River. SGU has 28 departments, more than 90 programmes of study are offered and the enrollment is around 28,000 students. In April 2006 the programming team from Saratov State University won the world finals of the 2006 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest held in San Antonio, Texas.

Saratov Drama Theater (Russian: Саратовский академический театр драмы имени И. А. Слонова) is located in the city of Saratov, Russia. It is one of the oldest theaters in Russia.Saratov Drama Theater was founded in 1859. Before its establishment, acting troupes from Moscow and St. Petersburg periodically visited Saratov, but only played private functions for the city's wealthier inhabitants. In 1859, Franz Schechtel (ru: Франц Осипович Шехтель), a wealthy merchant of German descent, opened his private home theater to the general public. In the first decades of its existente, the theater burned down and was rebuilt several times. The city did not originally possess its own troupe, but actors from other cities soon began to visit the new theater. Many famous 19th-century actors, including Piotr Medvedev (ru: Пётр Михайлович Медведев), Nicolay Sobolschikov-Samarin (ru: Собольщиков-Самарин, Николай Иванович), Aleksandr Lensky (ru: Александр Павлович Ленский), Maria Savina (ru: Савина, Мария Гавриловна), Vladimir Davydov (ru: Владимир Николаевич Давыдов), Pelageya Strepetova (ru: Стрепетова, Полина Антипьевна), and Vasily Kachalov (ru: Качалов, Василий Иванович), played in Saratov. In 1915 a large group of professional actors moved from Kyiv to Saratov. Among them was Ivan Slonov, one of the most famous actors in the Russian Empire at the time. He would go on to perform at Saratov Dramatic Theater for 30 years, until his death in 1945.After the 1917 Revolution, the theater changed its name to Karl Marx Drama Theater. In 1968, a new theater building was erected.In 1991, with the fall of the Soviet Union, it changed its name to Ivan Slonov Dramatic Theater. Nowadays, it is one of the oldest and most famous theaters in Russia. Its repertoire consists of both classical plays and contemporary authors.

The Saratov Governorate (Russian: Саратовская губе́рния, romanized: Saratovskaya guberniya) or the Government of Saratov, was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR.

The Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul (Russian: Собор Святых Апостолов Петра и Павла) is the cathedral of the Catholic Diocese of Saint Clement at Saratov, in Saratov Oblast, Russia. Saratov was from the mid-nineteenth century, the seat of the Bishop of Tiraspol in Imperial Russia. It was not resident in Tiraspol, but had jurisdiction over southern Russia and Siberia. Then the city was populated by large minorities of Poles and Germans from the Volga, the latter being installed in the region since the second half of the eighteenth century. The first Catholic church was built in 1805 in a small town growing with settlers from throughout the Empire. During Soviet times the church was persecuted. After its dissolution, the church was not allowed to be returned to the Catholic community that occupied the old site. A new church was therefore built and consecrated to the Apostles Peter and Paul in 2000 with the presence of the apostolic nuncio, which was elevated to cathedral status in 2002 with the erection of the diocese.

The Diocese of Saint Clement at Saratov (Latin: Dioecesis Saratoviensis Sancti Clementis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Russia. The diocese's episcopal see is located in the city of Saratov. The Diocese of Saint Clement at Saratov is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Mother of God at Moscow.