Saratov — this large capital is the former center of Volga German culture and a major modern industrial city; has a fine art gallery and is home to much of the Russia's space program and was home to Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space
Balakovo — a mid-sized city known with impressive pretension as the Venice of the Volga for its many canals, contains the largest church of the Old Believers in Russia
Engels — a mid-sized city, which was formerly the capital of the Volga German Republic, is connected to Saratov by a 3km bridge across the wide Volga River
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