Arkadak

Arkadak is a city in Russia, the administrative center of the Arkadak district of the Saratov region. Population of 11,895 thousand inhabitants (2018).

The city is located on the eastern edge of the Oksko-Don Plain, on the Big Arkadak River (near its confluence into the Hoper River), 248 km west of Saratov. The city of Arkadak, based on the Arkadak River near its confluence in Hoper, originally arose as a village on the land of landowner L. L. Naryshkin. Translated from the Turkic language "Arkadak" means: the area surrounded by mountains. First mentioned in 1721. Until 1939, Arkadak was a working village, it became a city since 1963.

In the city there are factories: dairy cannery, bakery. There is a House of Culture, a library, two cinemas, three secondary schools, a medical school.