Engels

Engels, previously known as Pokrovsk and Kosakenstadt, is a city in Saratov Oblast, Russia. It is a port situated on the Volga River opposite Saratov, the regulatory focus of the oblast, and is associated with it with an extension. It is the second-biggest city in Saratov Oblast with a populace of 202,419 2010 Census. Truly a vital community for Volga Germans, the city was referred to together as Pokrovsk in Russian and as Kosakenstadt in German, until the point when it was renamed after Friedrich Engels in 1931.

Engels filled in as the capital of the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic from 1918 to 1941. Inside the structure of regulatory divisions, Engels fills in as the authoritative focus of Engelssky District, despite the fact that it's anything but a piece of it. As a civil division, Engels City Under Oblast Jurisdiction, together with the work settlement of Privolzhsky and one country territory in Engelssky District, are fused inside Engelssky Municipal District as Engels Urban Settlement. Engels is a mechanical city.

The Trolza processing plant fabricates trolleybuses for Russia's open transportation systems. The Engelssky processing plant of transport mechanical designing produces moving stock for railroads. The Bosch-Saratov plant, beforehand Autotractor Spark Plugs, produces start plugs, and the German Henkel organization works an industrial facility delivering local clothing cleanser and substance items for the vehicle business. The Engelssky pipe manufacturing plant makes steel electro-welded channels, steel water pipeline, and profile funnels.