Yershov is a town and the administrative center of Yershovsky District

Yershovsky District

Yershovsky District is an administrative and municipal district , one of the 38 in Saratov Oblast, Russia....

 of Saratov Oblast

Saratov Oblast

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, Russia

Russia

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, located in the upper streams of the Malaya Uzen River, 178 kilometres (110.6 mi) east of Saratov

Saratov

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. Population:

It was founded as a settlement serving the railroad station

Train station

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of Yershovo , which was opened in 1894 and named after the engineer who was in charge of building it. Town status was granted to Yershovo in 1963, at which time it was given its present name.

External links

• Mojgorod.ru. Entry on Yershov