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Founded as the German colony Straub in 1767. It was also known as Alt Straub and Wiesenthal . The official Russian name is Skatovka . Founders - 59 families from Weilburg , Braunfels , Isenburg , Hanau and Diez . Calling colony of Leroy and Petit. The colony belonged to the Lutheran parish of Warenburg ^[2] . Until 1797, the colony belonged to the 2nd district of Petit and Leroy (Varenburgsky possession) of the Saratov district (from 1780 - the Kamyshin district of the Saratov governorship ) of the Astrakhan province , from 1797 to the Tarlytsky colonist district of the Kamyshin district (from 1836 - Novouzensky district ) Saratov province , since 1850 - to the Tarlytsky colonist district (since 1871 - the Tarlytsky volost ) of the Novouzensk district of the Samara province .

In 1774, the colony was plundered by the Pugachevites ^[2] .

Since 1918, as part of the Tarlyk volost (from Tarlyk district since 1920) of the Rivne district of the Labor commune of the Volga Germans, since 1922 - the Kukkus canton (from 1927 to 1935 - into the Zelmansky canton ) of the Volga Germans Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic .

During the famine of 1921, 98 were born in the village, 332 people died ^[2] . In 1926 there were a village council, an agricultural cooperative, an agricultural cooperative partnership, and an elementary school. In 1927, the decree of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee On Changes in the Administrative Division of the Autonomous Autonomous Region S. S. R. Nemtsev of the Volga Region and on the Assignment of German Names to the Old Names that Existed Before 1914, Skatovka village of the Zelmansky canton was given the name Straub ^[3] .

In September 1941, the German population was deported . The village, like other settlements of the Kukkus canton, was included in the Saratov region.

The village is located in the Low Trans-Volga region , which belongs to the East European Plain , 2 km east of the Volgograd Reservoir ^[4] . Initially, the village was located to the west, near the left bank of the Volga ^[5] , it was moved to a new place in connection with the filling of the Volgograd reservoir. The height of the center of the village is 39 meters above sea level ^[6] . The terrain is subboreal temperate continental, dry steppe , alluvial accumulative ^[7] . This type of landscape is characterized by large river terraces , flat and wavy, in places with beams and agricultural land ^[8] . Soils are chestnut ^[9] .

By road, the distance to the administrative center of the rural settlement of Tarlykovka is 7 km, to the district center of Rovnoye is 27 km, to the regional center of Saratov - 81 km ^[10] . Near the village passes the regional highway P226 ( Volgograd - Engels - Samara )

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