Berezhnovka
Berezhnovka lies east of the Volga, near the lower course of the Yeruslan. The river descends from the Obshchy Syrt across the steppe, its water becoming brackish and parts of its channel drying in summer. Farther south on the Volga, Dmitriyev was founded in 1747 and renamed Nikolayevskaya Sloboda in 1794.