Balakovo founded in 1913 godu.Balakovo Balakovo is the center of the municipality, located in the Saratov region, and is located on the border of the Middle and Lower Volga. With the city Balakovo border cities Pugachev Khvalynsk, Dukhovnitsky, Volsk, Ershov, Marx. Modern Balakovo not only a major industrial, cultural and educational center. 3 museums in the city, the Drama Theatre, the City Exhibition Hall, 4 cinemas, more than 60 libraries, more than 30 schools, grammar schools and high schools, 12 high schools and their branches and subsidiaries. Balakovtsy can be proud of his hometown. The names of our illustrious countrymen - Fyodor Blinov, James Mom, Vasily Chapaev, Dmitry Tarasov Gribanova Nicholas, Nicholas Peregudova, Evgeny Lebedev, Gennady Golobokova and many others - show how rich talented people, our native land. Balakovo - second Venice. The city is divided shipping canal in two. Used road, rail crossing over the river. Volga. According to the "blue" street - the navigable channel - ply passenger ships and barges-type self-propelled Volga-Don. While the water in Balakovo gateways passengers, and often themselves balakovtsy, overlook the city skyline. In full view of the open two landscape: part of the island - the old city, and zakanalnaya - new areas.
