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BYD just set a new sales record as aggressive price cuts take effect, is it enough to top Tesla?

China’s leading EV maker, BYD , set a new monthly NEV sales record as it battles for market share in an increasingly competitive market. The growth after BYD slashed prices on some of its top-selling electric vehicles. Will it be enough to top Tesla in the second quarter?

BYD sold 341,658 new energy vehicles (NEVs) last month, its highest monthly total ever. After NEV sales surged 35% from last year, BYD surpassed its previous 341,043 NEVs sold in December 2023.

Of them, 145,179 were all-electric, up 13% from the 128,196 sold last June. However, it wasn’t enough to top the 146,395 sold in May .

BYD sold 726,153 fully electric vehicles in the first half of 2024, up 18% from the 616,810 EVs sold in the first half of 2023.

The other 195,032 vehicles sold last month were plug-in hybrids, up 58% YOY. BYD’s PHEV sales have hit a new record for the past four months now.

BYD also sold 26,995 vehicles overseas as it expands into new markets to boost growth. Meanwhile, the BYD’s biggest growth driver is being driven by fierce price cuts.

BYD tops monthly sales record amid China’s EV price war

BYD’s sales are picking up after starting a “liberation battle” earlier this year, targeting foreign gas-powered cars with lower prices.

BYD’s cheapest EV, the Seagull , starts at just $9,700 (69,800 yuan) in China. Overseas, it starts at around $20,000. Lower-priced versions of its top-selling Atto 3, Dolphin, and Seal EVs are also hitting the market.

The new models are rolling out in overseas markets like Japan and South Korea as BYD looks to rival Toyota and Hyundai in their domestic markets.

BYD launched its third EV in Japan last week, the Seal EV, starting at ¥5.28 million, or around $33,100.

The Seal, BYD’s answer to the Tesla Model 3, is expected to reach South Korea by the end of the year.

Although BYD is best known for its affordable EVs, the auto giant is expanding into new markets like luxury, mid-size SUVs, pickups and supercars. Its new Yangwang U9 electric supercar was spotted racing around the Nurburgring last week ( see the video here ). Starting at $233,400 (1,680,000 yuan), the +1,200 horsepower U9 is aimed at Ferrari and Lamborghini.

BYD also launched the Sea Lion 07 in May, its first “medium-sized urban smart electric SUV.” Starting at 189,800 yuan ($26,250), BYD’s new electric SUV undercuts Tesla’s top-selling Model Y , which starts at 249,900 yuan ($34,550) in China.

Top comment by SameAsItEverWas

I'm somewhat upset about the Chinese car companies's success. America should be doing more and better than we are. The BYD offerings seem to be really good, but I have an issue with owning a car not built here, regardless of the manufacturer. Six years ago, I bought an electric riding mower made in China that was designed and sold by an American brand name company. I anguished over the decision to buy it because it was made in China, but it was the best design and build of what was on the market at the time. I paid a bit more for the mower, but it has proven to be rock solid with no issues in 200 hours of operation. Still waiting for an American car company to get things together.

Meanwhile, BYD will deal with new tariffs in Europe on Chinese imports. Although some project it could impact sales, BYD makes more on some EVs sold in the EU than in China and may be able to absorb the extra duties.

Will BYD’s price cuts and new models be enough to top Tesla again? BYD sold 426,039 EVs in the second quarter of 2024, up 42% from Q1. Wall St is projecting Tesla will sell around 450,000 , and China will be key to hitting its target.

Update 7/2/2024 : Tesla (TSLA) delivered 443,956 EVs in Q2 2024, topping BYD again.

Source: CnEVPost , BYD

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Peter Johnson is covering the auto industry’s step-by-step transformation to electric vehicles. He is an experienced investor, financial writer, and EV enthusiast. His enthusiasm for electric vehicles, primarily Tesla, is a significant reason he pursued a career in investments. If he isn’t telling you about his latest 10K findings, you can find him enjoying the outdoors or exercising

After a Tough Day in the Mountains, Stage 5 Will Be Another Chance for the Sprinters

Stage 5 - saint-jean-de-maurienne to saint-vulbas/plaine de l’ain (177.5km) - tuesday, july 2.

A fter a tough trip through the Alps from Italy to France on Stage 4, Wednesday’s Stage 5 is the first to take place entirely on French soil. And with a flat finish in Saint-Vulbas, we expect it to be a day for the Tour’s sprinters.

Beginning in Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne–home of the Opinel knife factory–the 177.5km stage takes the riders northwest toward a finish on the banks of the Rhône, with only two Category 4 climbs along the way. These climbs shouldn’t pose much of a threat to most of the sprinters or their teams–especially since the riders will summit the second one about 35km from the finish line in Saint-Vulbas–which is home to the headquarters of the International Boules Federation.

The finish itself shouldn’t be too dangerous. The riders will be rolling south (pun intended) along the left bank of the Rhône as they approach Saint-Vulbas and will make a hard right turn through a roundabout with about 3km to go that takes into the heart of the town. Luckily, this is another stage during which the UCI is testing new modifications to safety protocols, so the 3km “safety zone” at the end of the stage will be extended to 4km.

There’s one more right-hander through another roundabout about 2,500m from the line–then it’s essentially a flat, straight shot to the finish line. The road bends to the right with about 250m to go, at which point the riders will see the line themselves.

The weather is forecast to be cloudy, with temperatures hovering around 70 degrees and a slight percent chance of showers during the second half of the stage. Hopefully the roads are dry by the time the riders get to Saint-Vulbas.

Now that some gaps have opened up at the top of the General Classification , Slovenia’s Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates)–who took back the yellow jersey on Stage 4–should have no trouble defending his 45-second lead over Belgium’s Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-Quick Step)–who wears the white jersey as the Tour’s current Best Young Rider. Friday’s Stage 7 brings the first individual time trial of the 2024 Tour de France–that’s the next GC battleground.

Riders to Watch

After missing out at the end of Stage 3, you can bet that Alpecin-Deceuninck and Belgium’s Jasper Philipsen will do everything they can to win their first stage of the 2024 Tour de France in Saint-Vulbas.

The Category 4 Côte de Lhuis might help them. The Tour’s opening stages have been the hardest we’ve ever seen and many of the Tour’s field sprinters have spent most of their time suffering off the back of the peloton. In most years, a short climb like the Côte de Lhuis might not be an issue with 34.6km to go in a stage, but this year it could send a few guys–like Great Britain’s Mark Cavendish (Astana Qazaqstan), Ireland’s Sam Bennett (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale), and the Netherlands’ Fabio Jakobsen (dsm-firmenich PostNL)–out the back of the peloton.

But the climb shouldn't be an issue for Philipsen, Denmark’s Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek), Belgium’s Arnaud De Lie (Lotto Dstny), and Eritrea’s Biniam Girmay (Intermarché-Wanty), who won Stage 3.

Stage 5 should also put a new rider in the green jersey as the leader of the Tour’s Points competition. Norway’s Jonas Abrahamsen (Uno-X Mobility)–who also leads the Tour’s King of the Mountains competition–has been wearing the green jersey since Stage 2.

But Abrahamsen enters the stage leading Girmay and Pedersen by just four and eight points respectively, and should hand over the maillot vert to one of them at the end of the day. Luckily, the Norwegian has a four-point lead over Pogačar in the Tour’s Mountains competition, and with only three KOM points available on Stages 5 through 7, he’ll have the polka dot jersey to wear for the next few days.

How to Watch Stage 5 of the Tour de France

You can stream Stage 5 of the 2024 Tour de France on NBC’s Peacock ($5.99/month or $59.99/year). If you’re looking for ad-free coverage, you’ll need a subscription to Peacock Premium Plus, which runs $11.99 per month or $119.99 for the year.

The stage is expected to finish around 11:25 a.m. EDT, so we’ll be tuning in at about 11:00 a.m. EDT–just in case they’re running ahead of schedule.

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Tadej Pogacar storms into yellow jersey after blowing Tour de France rivals away on Galibier

Tadej Pogacar attacked near the top of the first big mountain pass of the Tour de France to take the overall leader’s yellow jersey off the shoulders of Richard Carapaz.

Two-time defending champion Jonas Vingegaard did his best to limit the damage but finished 37 seconds behind on stage four. The race crossed back into France after the opening stages in Italy .

The climb to the 2,642-metre Col du Galibier met expectations as the Tour’s first decisive point.

“This was more or less the plan and we executed it truly well,” Pogacar said after his 12th career stage win at the Tour. “I wanted to hit hard today. I know this stage really well. I’ve been training here many days. It felt like a home stage.

“I had confidence in the start, I had good legs, and I had to try it. I know the downhill but I was a little bit surprised to see wet road in the first few corners. So it was a little bit scary.”

Previous leader Carapaz was dropped on the Galibier. Tour rookie Remco Evenepoel, the Spanish Vuelta and world champion in 2022, crossed second in the stage, 35sec behind Pogacar. Juan Ayuso, Pogacar’s team-mate, finished third with the same time. Primoz Roglic crossed fourth and Vingegaard fifth.

Tadej Pogacar wins stage four to take yellow: As it happened

04:59 pm bst, pogacar in yellow, 04:58 pm bst, evenepoel leads young rider classification, 04:56 pm bst, abrahamsen still leads mountains classification, 04:51 pm bst, uae team emirates lead team classification, 04:42 pm bst, back into yellow.

Pog took the maillot jaune after stage two and then lost it to Richard Carapaz after stage three, but he is back in yellow.

The💛 back on his shoulders Le 💛 de retour sur ses épaules #TDF2024 pic.twitter.com/a2hrqj6imG — Tour de France™ (@LeTour) July 2, 2024

04:37 PM BST

The thoughts of stage winner and yellow jersey holder tadej pogacar.

"This was the plan and we executed it very well" Tadej Pogačar spoke after taking the stage win and yellow jersey on stage 4 💛🇸🇮 #TDF2024 pic.twitter.com/FHIQODZin2 — ITV Cycling (@itvcycling) July 2, 2024

04:29 PM BST

The stage is pog’s, 04:22 pm bst, top ten in the gc, 04:18 pm bst, stage four results.

Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) 3hrs 46mins 48secs

Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-Quick Step) +35secs

Juan Ayuso (UAE Team Emirates) Same time

Primoz Roglic (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) “

Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) +37secs

Carlos Rodriguez (Ineos Grenadiers) Same time

Mikel Landa (Soudal-Quick Step) +53secs

Joao Almeida (UAE Team Emirates) Same time

Giulio Ciccone (Lidl-Trek) +2mins 41secs

Santiago Buitrago (Bahrain Victorious) Same time

04:10 PM BST

Top five over the line.

Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates)

Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-Quick Step) +35”

Juan Ayuso (UAE Team Emirates)

Primoz Roglic (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe)

Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike)

04:06 PM BST

The final kilometre, carapaz finishes.

The Ecuadorian started the day in yellow but he will have to hand it over to Pogacar. He comes in just over five minutes down alongside his teammate Ben Healy.

04:02 PM BST

The rest come in.

Evenepoel comes over the line in second with Ayuso third and Roglic fourth. Vingegaard comes in just behind.

04:00 PM BST

Pogacar wins.

He attacked near the top of the Galibier and has descended brilliantly. Pogacar wins stage four and takes the maillot jaune.

🥇💛YES!!! @TamauPogi wins solo in Valloire and back in yellow jersey #TDF2024 ! What. A. Teamwork. 👏👏👏 #WeAreUAE pic.twitter.com/MBSvsCa6Pv — @UAE-TeamEmirates (@TeamEmiratesUAE) July 2, 2024

03:59 PM BST

Under the flamme rouge Pogacar goes and he is racing into yellow.

03:57 PM BST

The trio of Rodriguez, Roglic and Ayuso have caught up to Vingegaard. Evenepoel has also made his way on so we have a quintet 35 seconds behind Pogacar.

03:55 PM BST

We are into the final 5kms. Pogacar is now 30 seconds ahead.

03:54 PM BST

Vingegaard is losing more time in this descent, he is nearly 30 seconds behind Pogacar now.

03:52 PM BST

Pogacar now has a 17-second advantage over Vingegaard as he goes under the 10km banner and is heading for the yellow jersey.

03:50 PM BST

Evenepoel was the third man on the road but Roglic and Rodriguez have overtaken him.

03:46 PM BST

It is a fast descent off the Galibier. Pogacar is around nine seconds ahead of Vingegaard and Evenepoel is third on the road. Roglic is 30 seconds down on Poagacar. Carapaz is now four minutes down and is still climbing.

03:43 PM BST

Pogacar goes over the top first and takes six bonus seconds. Vingegaard rolls over around six seconds behind.

03:42 PM BST

Pogacar is putting a little distance into Vingegaard.

03:41 PM BST

Like on stage two, Vingegaard is the only one who can respond.

Pogacar attacks with 800 metres left of the Galibier!

03:39 PM BST

The riders who are in the front group include the big four; Pogacar, Vingegaard, Roglic and Evenepoel.

Just one kilometre of the Galibier remains for the leaders.

03:36 PM BST

Almeida is unhappy and gets on the team radio, seemingly calling for his teammate Ayuso to get up to the front to do a turn.

Carapaz is now one minute 45 seconds down, losing heaps of time.

03:34 PM BST

Yates is gone for UAE Team Emirates so Almeida is on the front for them. Vingegaard is on his wheel with Pogacar right behind the Dane.

03:33 PM BST

Vingegaard is losing teammates as Matteo Jorgenson loses contact. UAE Team Emirates are flexing their muscles with 4km of the Galibier left.

03:31 PM BST

The pace is frightening in the lead group as more and more riders are being spat out the back. The group is quite small now. Carapaz is 50 seconds behind now.

Geraint Thomas is another rider dropped.

⛰️ @TeamEmiratesUAE is pushing hard on the last part of the ascent! ⛰️ @TeamEmiratesUAE impose un fort tempo dans la dernière partie du col du Galibier ! #TDF204 pic.twitter.com/KhDRrAZcDE — Tour de France™ (@LeTour) July 2, 2024

03:28 PM BST

Richard Carapaz took yellow at the end of yesterday’s stage but it looks like he is going to lose it as he is losing contact with the peloton. 6km of the Galibier to go.

03:26 PM BST

Not good news for the Brits as Tom Pidcock and Simon Yates have been dropped.

Tom Pidcock is dropped 🥺 #TDF2024 pic.twitter.com/4Y0q7ez5p3 — ITV Cycling (@itvcycling) July 2, 2024

03:25 PM BST

The breakaway is no more. The peloton has got to Luzkano and now they are the front of the race. When are we going to get our first attack from the big hitters? Surely imminently.

03:22 PM BST

Remco Evenepoel’s team Soudal-Quick Step are very present at the front of the peloton. Does he fancy an attack soon?

The peloton has now swallowed up most of the breakaway now.

03:19 PM BST

Through a tunnel Lazkano has attacked and the trio of Gaudu, Johannessen and Juul-Jensen cannot respond for the time being. The peloton are closing in. Still 9km of the Gailibier remain.

03:17 PM BST

Wellens is done at the front of the peloton and Marc Soler takes over now for UAE Team Emirates. The gap to the front four is down to 50 seconds now.

03:12 PM BST

It is now a four-man group at the front as Gaudu and Lazkano have been joined by Juul-Jensen and Johannessen.

03:11 PM BST

There has been a small avalanche of snow near the top of the Galibier but the organisers have worked hard to clear it.

David Gaudu has joined Lazkano at the front.

03:08 PM BST

With UAE Team Emirates bringing down the gap to the breakaway quickly, something needs to change at the front. So Oier Lazkano of Movistar has attacked.

van der Poel has been dropped from the breakaway as has Barguil.

GC riders swiftly closing in. Time bonuses (8sec, 5sec and 2sec) for the first three to reach the top of the Galibier, remember.

03:05 PM BST

Politt has done all he can and that is his day done. Tim Wellens has taken over at the front of the peloton for UAE Team Emirates. They have reduced the gap to the breakaway down to under one and a half minutes.

03:03 PM BST

The big hitters:

02:57 PM BST

Nils Politt is on the front of the peloton for UAE Team Emirates and he is pushing hard, which is stringing out the peloton. The gap ahead to the breakaway is just over two minutes. Still a mere 18 kilometres remain up the Galibier!

Out of context #TDF2024 pic.twitter.com/70o3g8DPT3 — ITV Cycling (@itvcycling) July 2, 2024

02:49 PM BST

Here we go. We have hit the foot of the Galibier. Let the fireworks begin!

At the foot of the climb the breakaway’s lead is over two and a half minutes.

🏁41km One of the most iconic climbs in the history of cycling, the Col du Galibier 🏔️ Here we go! #TDF2024 pic.twitter.com/wygrrSKAUm — ITV Cycling (@itvcycling) July 2, 2024

02:40 PM BST

We are just a few kilometres from the start of the Galibier.

The big question today is whether UAE try to put the hammer down on the Galibier. I’m sure that must have been the plan for today at the start of the week - ride aggressively and try to hurt Vingegaard before he has time to build up his fitness (post-accident). You sense that Vingegaard’s performance in the first part of the race, particularly that finish in Bologna two days ago, has really changed the dynamic and made UAE second guess themselves. Do they want to burn matches now, knowing Pogacar already has a grand tour in his legs and seeing the form Vingegaard is in? It might come back to bite them later in the race? Or do they want to have another crack at him?

02:31 PM BST

The breakaway’s lead back to the peloton is just under two minutes. We are around 10km away from the start of the Galibier.

02:25 PM BST

There has been a split in the peloton on the descent as yellow jersey man Carapaz was caught out but the whole group is now back together.

02:20 PM BST

Top four at the summit of Col de Montgenèvre:

Stephen Williams, 5 pts

Warren Barguil, 3 pts

Valentin Madouas, 2 pts

Tobias Johannessen, 1 pt

02:17 PM BST

We are now on the descent before the riders then hit the Galibier. The peloton are currently two minutes behind the breakaway.

02:14 PM BST

The breakaway hits the top of the climb and the king of the mountains points available are the same as on the previous climb. Barguil attacks early but it is Williams once again who snatches it. Madouas is third.

🏁68km Another 5 points for Stephen Williams🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 at the summit of Col de Montgenevre moves him into 3rd in the KOM competition ⚪️🔴 #TDF2024 pic.twitter.com/Zcn3sAgrRd — ITV Cycling (@itvcycling) July 2, 2024

02:10 PM BST

We have just crossed the border from Italy into France and the Tour is home for the first time in 2024. The breakaway are just one kilometre from the summit of the Col de Montgenèvre.

02:06 PM BST

Stunning drive over the Galibier to Valloire this morning. Busy up there (and windy). Lots of snow at the top. It’s going to be fascinating to see whether Tom Pidcock goes for it again on the descent where made his name two years ago. OK, not made his name. He was already Olympic Mountain Bike champion and Cyclo-cross world champion etc etc But it certainly made him more famous. It still makes my palms sweat watching it. Terrifying.

02:00 PM BST

The breakaway are about halfway up the Col de Montgenèvre and their lead over the peloton currently stands at three minutes.

01:53 PM BST

As the peloton hit the foot of the climb, it is Visma-Lease a Bike who are at the head of it.

01:51 PM BST

The breakaway reaches the foot of the Col de Montgenèvre, an 8.3km climb. The peloton are two and a half minutes behind. When we get towards the top of the climb we will leave Italy and head into France.

01:48 PM BST

We are currently descending from the top of Sestrières but soon we will be climbing again up the Col de Montgenèvre, which is a category two climb.

01:46 PM BST

Top four at the summit of Sestrières:

Stephen Williams (Israel-Premier Tech), 5pts

Valentin Madouas (Groupama-FDJ), 3pts

Warren Barguil (Team DSM-Firmenich PostNL), 2pts

Tobias Halland Johannessen (Uno-X Mobility), 1pts

01:40 PM BST

There are five points, three points and two points available to the top three across the line. Stephen Williams (Israel-Premier Tech) beats Valentin Madouas (Groupama-FDJ) to the line with Warren Barguil third (Team DSM-Firmenich PostNL).

🏁89km After an interminable 40km of climbing, Stephen Williams🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 takes maximum 5 points at the summit of Sestrières 🏔️ #TDF2024 pic.twitter.com/Dq3ahEJ5I0 — ITV Cycling (@itvcycling) July 2, 2024

01:38 PM BST

The breakaway are inside a kilometre of the summit of Sestrières, with an advantage back to the peloton of just over two minutes.

01:36 PM BST

Defending champion Jonas Vingegaard won stage 11 in the 2022 Tour de France which included the climb up the Galibier. His preparation to this year’s Tour was far from ideal as he crashed a couple of months ago on the fourth stage at the Tour of the Basque Country, suffering a punctured lung and fractured ribs and collarbone. Here he is speaking ahead of today’s stage:

"Normally I suffer more on explosive climbs...I surprised myself" Daniel asked Jonas Vingegaard how he feels after the first few stages 🇩🇰 #TDF2024 pic.twitter.com/4AzKCYfeyl — ITV Cycling (@itvcycling) July 2, 2024

01:31 PM BST

Over six minutes off the lead group we have all the main sprinters, including Mark Cavendish (Astana Qazaqstan), Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck), Fabio Jakobsen (Team DSM-Firmenich PostNL), and yesterday’s stage winner Biniam Girmay (Intermarché-Wanty), who are all in one large group.

Up in the peloton Pogacar was momentarily off the back for a natural break so the pace slows a little to allow him back on.

01:26 PM BST

The breakaway are coming towards the top of Sestrières and their lead to the peloton is three minutes.

01:24 PM BST

Richard Carapaz currently is in possession of the yellow jersey, but his build-up to the 2024 Tour was far from ideal. He crashed at the Tour de Suisse, which he had to abandon and then fell sick. He won the 2019 Giro d’Italia with Movistar before moving to Ineos. EF Education-EasyPost snapped him up ahead of the 2023 season, with their manager Jonathan Vaughters admitting that they risked everything on Carapaz and poured everything into him ahead of the 2023 Tour. Carapaz was forced to abandon the Tour last year after a crash on stage one.

01:12 PM BST

102km to go.

There are 17 riders currently in the breakaway. Here is a full rundown of all those riders;

Odd Christian Eking, Tobias Johannessen (both UNO-X Mobility), David Gaudu, Valentin Madouas, Romain Gregoire (all Groupama-FDJ), Warren Barguil (Team DSM-Firmenich PostNL), Bruno Armirail (Decathlon-Ag2R La Mondiale), Julien Bernard (Lidl-Trek), Cristian Rodriguez, Raul Garcia Pierna (both Arkea-B&B Hotels), Kobe Goossens (Intermarché-Wanty), Alexey Lutsenko (Astana Qazaqstan), Stephen Williams (Israel-Premier Tech), Christopher Juul-Jensen (Jayco-Alula), Mathieu Burgaudeau (TotalEnergies), Oier Lazkano (Movistar), Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck).

Their lead over the peloton is around one minute.

01:04 PM BST

106km to go.

Quite a sizeable breakaway has formed and they now have 30 seconds on the peloton. This group consists of van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck), David Gaudu and Valentin Madouas (both Groupama-FDJ).

12:58 PM BST

108km to go.

It is still very frantic at the front as every breakaway so far has struggled to get away. van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) has joined the font group but they have just a matter of seconds on the peloton.

12:54 PM BST

110km to go.

The breakaway has now been joined by Raul Garcia Pierna (Arkea-B&B Hotels) but they are struggling to get away from the peloton.

12:52 PM BST

112km to go.

We have a four-man breakaway at the moment; Tobias Johannessen (Unp-X Mobility), Alexey Lutsenko (Astana Qazaqstan), Oier Lazkano (Movistar) and Christopher Juul-Jensen (Jayco-Alula). They only have ten seconds on the peloton.

12:50 PM BST

114km to go.

Wout van Aert has dropped off the peloton and is around 50 seconds back. It looks like he will not be his day at all.

There were some concerns for Ineos Grenadiers and Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe as Egan Bernal and Primoz Roglic were in a little strife but they are safely now back in the peloton.

12:41 PM BST

119km to go.

Results of the intermediate sprint:

Mads Pedersen

Biniam Girmay

Bryan Coquard

Jasper Philipsen

Jonas Abrahamsen

12:39 PM BST

120km to go.

Pedersen takes the 20 points on offer in the points classification with yesterday’s stage winner Biniam Girmay taking second. Jasper Philipsen was interested but gave up in the end.

One sprinter who was not in contention was Fernando Gaviria (Movistar), who has dropped off the back of the peloton.

💚 @Mads__Pedersen 🤗 @GrmayeBiniam A friendly battle in the green jersey contest on what has been a fierce start to stage 4 💥 #TDF2024 pic.twitter.com/l3jvEww5Cc — ITV Cycling (@itvcycling) July 2, 2024

12:37 PM BST

121km to go.

We are approaching the intermediate sprint as Castel del Bosco. Lidl-Trek are setting it up for Pedersen.

12:34 PM BST

123km to go.

The speed of the peloton has meant that the breakaway has been caught which in turn is probably going to spark more attacks.

12:32 PM BST

125km to go.

The pace is still frantic in the peloton, which I am sure the sprinters will not be enjoying. They will want things to settle down in the peloton. The gap to the breakaway is only just over ten seconds. Silvan Dillier of Alpecin-Deceuninck is the one forcing the pace at the front of the peloton and that felt very planed by the team as that sets up an attack by Mathieu van der Poel.

12:27 PM BST

129km to go.

We now begin the 39.9km climb up to Sestrières, a long, gradual climb. The breakaway has a 20-second lead over the peloton.

12:25 PM BST

130km to go.

Pedersen has been joined by five other riders; Wout Poels (Bahrain Victorious), Harold Tejada (Astana Qazaqstan), Frank van den Broek (Team DSM-Firmenich PostNL), Kevin Geniets (Groupama-FDJ) and Magnus Cort (Uno-X Mobility). Their lead back to the peloton is just over ten seconds.

12:20 PM BST

134km to go.

Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek) has gone out in front and others are trying to join him. There is an intermediate sprint coming up in around 15km as Castel del Bosco so Pedersen might be thinking of that. The peloton is still flying along.

12:17 PM BST

136km to go.

We have a long, gradual climb up to Sestrières to begin this stage. The pace is fast and no-one has got away yet.

12:15 PM BST

138km to go.

Attacks start straight away as the peloton is massively strung out very quickly. Wout van Aert (Visma-Lease a Bike) is right at the front.

12:14 PM BST

12:11 pm bst, carapaz ready, 12:06 pm bst, neutralised start.

The roll-out from Pinerolo has begun and we are just under four kilometres away from the flag dropping.

12:03 PM BST

Rider abandons.

Ahead of stage four, Soudal-Quick Step have announced that Casper Pedersen has abandoned the Tour. He crashed in the final stages of yesterday’s stage and has suffered a fractured collarbone. We wish him well in his recovery. Get well soon Casper.

Get well soon, Casper 💪 The Wolfpack will miss you but knows you will come back stronger 🤗 pic.twitter.com/b7u9WODMH5 — Soudal Quick-Step Pro Cycling Team (@soudalquickstep) July 1, 2024

11:55 AM BST

Carapaz in yellow ahead of stage four, 11:50 am bst, stage four profile, 11:16 am bst, battle in the alps.

Good morning and welcome to our coverage of stage four of the 2024 Tour de France. Yesterday was a day of firsts at the Tour. Biniam Girmay (Intermarché-Wanty) became the first black African to win a stage at the Tour de France after winning a sprint finish in Turin. He beat out Fernando Gaviria (Movistar), Arnaud de Lie (Lotto Dstny) and Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek) to take his first stage at the Tour, having previously won a stage at the Giro d’Italia in 2022.

A crash with just over two kilometres to go caused chaos as a number of the main contenders for the sprint were affected including Mark Cavendish (Astana Qazaqstan), who was looking to win an historic 35th stage at the Tour, and Jasper Philipsen, the Alpecin-Deceuninck rider who won four stages at the Tour last year and lost his leadout man Mathieu van der Poel to a puncture in the final 10km.

Although all the general classification contenders were handed the same time after the crash inside five kilometres, Richard Carapaz (EF Education-EasyPost) has taken the yellow jersey from Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) after finishing higher up at the finish on stage three. Carapaz became the first Ecuadorian to claim the yellow leader’s jersey but he has a job on his hands keeping it today.

Today’s stage will have significant ramifications on the contest for the yellow jersey as we will enter into France for the first time during today’s stage. We have a 139.6km stage in store from Pinerolo to Valloire, which includes the climb up the hors catégorie Col du Galibier as the riders climb into the Alps. In 2022 Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) won stage 11 which included the climb up the Galibier, finishing nearly three minutes ahead of Pogacar. We will find out a lot today about Pogacar, Vingegaard, Carapaz, Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-Quick Step) and Primoz Roglic (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe). Pogacar attacked on stage two into Bologna and Vingegaard was the only one to keep up. What will the form of Pogacar and Vingegaard be like today? Can the likes of Carapaz, Evenepoel and Roglic keep up? All those questions will be answered in the hours ahead so stick with us throughout stage four.

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Here’s a secret about Trek’s brand new Madone Gen 8. While the bike was designed for all racers — whether they love long, vicious climbs or laying down enough watts to bust a power meter — there was one person, above all, who engineers wanted to please: Mads Pedersen.

The Lidl-Trek rider deserves this distinction for good reason. The first is the most obvious: He’s a damn good bike racer. Pedersen has won a World Championship, multiple classics, at least one stage of all three Grand Tours, and the points jersey at the Vuelta a España. He is an influential leader within the team. If Mads likes something, people listen.

But in addition to his athletic gifts, he’s also a shrewd ride tester. Anyone who has listened to his post-race interviews knows that he doesn’t mince words. He’s honest and outspoken, but also fair. And he’s as meticulous and in-tune with his equipment as perhaps any bike rider in the world. His feedback has become a barometer by which not just Trek bikes are judged, but products like helmets , too.

Mads Pedersen won the first ever WorldTour race on the Madone Gen 8 when he took Stage 1 of the Critérium du Dauphiné earlier this month. | Photo by Dario Belingheri/Getty Images

“His honesty is believable,” says Scott Daubert, who oversees equipment for Trek’s racing programs. “He’s never asking for something that he doesn’t need. And he’s thoughtful about what he’s asking for. If we’ve got something we want to produce for consumers, and he picks it, then we know we’re all on the same page.”

Last October, on a team visit to Trek headquarters in Waterloo, Wisc., Trek’s road bike engineers took the decorated Dane out for one of the final road tests for the new Madone. After two years of simulations, prototypes, and testing, they had honed the shape of the bike and needed to make one last decision on its carbon laminate. Pedersen had already started his offseason. He had been off his bike for several days after a trip to China. He was worried at the time that he wouldn’t be able to give the bike a fair evaluation, especially while riding on rural, sub-WorldTour quality Wisconsin roads.

Tony Gallopin testing an early version of the Madone Gen 8 at December team camp in 2022.

Trek design engineer Adam Bird handed Pedersen the first of two laminate options — specifically, the option that he secretly hoped Pedersen would prefer. Bird and a cadre of internal ride testers all agreed that it was the best version of the bike, but they had another version ready with a different carbon layup just in case.

“We’re nervous because, of course, he didn’t know what was what. We just gave him two bikes,” Bird says. “He didn’t know that one of them was the bike we wanted him to like. So there was the potential that he picks the other one, or he doesn’t like either of them. We’d make it work, but it’d mean a lot more work, and it would affect the production. 

“But after he rode the first one, he loved it, and we were like, ‘Yes, we got it.'”

Prototype frames ready to go for Circle, Square, Triangle testing among Trek's internal riders.

If that sounds like Trek’s engineers slayed their final boss a little easily … well, yes, maybe they did. But that’s because they had been preparing for the moment for a very long time. Pedersen’s ride test was one of the very last steps of a long, slow, iterative process. The goal from the jump was to make “the ultimate race bike,” merging two road racing platforms — the ultra-light Émonda and the ultra-fast Madone — into one do-it-all speed machine. Making two great bikes better, at the same time, is exactly as agonizingly hard as it sounds. 

Research and development on the new Madone technically started in Summer of 2021. Trek, at the time, was planning on introducing an Émonda Gen 4 to be released in 2023, but in the course of development, engineers realized that they could significantly improve the bike’s pure speed. Rather than try to make an even lighter Émonda that offered little in terms of aerodynamic improvements, they pursued the Holy Grail: A bike that had the best of weight and aero benefits. 

Adam Bird on site at road team camp in December, 2022.

Trek’s road engineers restarted development towards this goal in late 2021 by cutting alloy frames to put into wind tunnel testing to refine the Madone Gen 7’s already best-in-class design. Once they settled on the shape of the frame, they made a tool that could create carbon prototype frames for ride testing. 

The next step was assembling an elite A-Team of ride testers from within Trek HQ. The Bicycle Company has a lot of fast riders within its walls who are eager to lend their legs towards the pursuit of science. The core group was refined down to Trek store design manager Justin Marshall, road bikes and Project One director Jordan Roessingh, former road product manager Max Ackermann, and Daubert, who in addition to his duties in the Trek Race Shop also won a U.S. national cyclocross title last December. Those riders are not only fast, they are well known for their equipment acumen and ability to detect and vocalize subtle differences in ride quality from minor changes. 

Scott Daubert putting the Madone Gen 8 through the paces.

“Trek wanted a lighter Madone. So then it kind of made sense to go, ‘OK, let’s really focus on making an aerodynamic bike lighter,'” Daubert says. “There were no holds barred.” 

That detectability group did their first ride test in November of 2022 in California. There, they did Round 1 of “Circle, Square, Triangle.” In order to avoid even an ounce of unconscious bias seeping into rider feedback, engineers didn’t label the bikes “A, B, C” or “1, 2, 3.” Riders would ride Circle and Square back-to-back, then say which they liked better. Then they’d repeat the process with Square vs. Triangle, and Triangle vs. Circle, and hope that a clear winner emerged from the group. 

Keeping bike setups consistent across tests was paramount to the process. Every time riders swapped bikes, they made sure they were using the exact same wheels and tires, and that bike fits were perfectly aligned, from saddle heights to stem lengths. Bird recalls Roessingh feeling hesitant to give feedback after one ride test because the brake lever throw — the distance between the brake lever and the grip — had been different from one bike to the other.

Early IsoFlow.

Trek’s engineers are an empirically-minded species, but bike design isn’t an exact science.

“Sometimes you contradict yourself. You might not like a bike one time, but like it another time, or vice versa,” Daubert says. “It’s really frustrating if you’re trying to hone your detecting skills, but that’s the way we do it.”

The bike first went in front of Lidl-Trek riders in December of 2022 at team camp in Spain. Otto Vergaerde and former road captain Tony Gallopin took out the prototype bike (at that point, it had no name — Madone, Émonda, or otherwise) and did their own Circle, Square, Triangle testing. Their feedback largely aligned with the internal group’s, which was an important breakthrough: It meant that the test riders in Waterloo were dialed in to what the largely Europe-based pros felt they needed to win.

The bike being worked on during a camp test ride.

The internal group did a series of ride tests at Wildcat State Park in the ensuing months, roughly two hours away from Trek headquarters. Wisconsin may not have any climbs rivaling the Alps or the Pyrenees, but Wildcat’s easily repeatable switchbacks did the job. There, the riders continued the Circle, Square, Triangle process, largely testing new laminates and subtle tweaks to the frame. 

The engineers’ biggest headache wasn’t necessarily making an already fast bike lighter. The Madone Gen 7 gave the Gen 8 team a solid foundation to apply weight-saving techniques that it had developed. The early prototypes received overwhelmingly positive feedback in both climbing and sprinting, suggesting that Trek had achieved its ultimate goal. But there was still one aspect in which the older platforms reigned supreme. 

Otto Vergaerde pushing the pace.

“Throughout the whole day, all the feedback was super positive,” Bird says. “And at the end of the day they compared it to the Madone Gen 7, and I remember Max [Ackermann] telling me, ‘I thought this descent was just super technical and I wasn’t pushing the bike hard enough, but then I rode the Gen 7, and that thing felt like it was on rails.'”

According to Bird, there was no eureka moment to fix the Madone Gen 8’s descending capabilities. Instead, his team began an arduous process of increasing and decreasing stiffness in certain areas of the bike, testing those changes, and gradually reshaping the ride feel to a point where it seemed like the bike could truly do everything well.

“I think from the first couple of test rides, we did not have a good enough product. We kept comparing it to the Madone Gen 7 and the new bike couldn’t measure up,” Daubert says. “And then there was a day when we finally were like, ‘OK, now we got it. Now we’ve improved on the old bike.'”

The internal ride crew taking a break in California.

The internal group did their final test ride in August, 2023, in North Carolina, where a longtime road rider on a competitor’s bike joined the group and sung the Madone’s praises. The same two versions of the bike that Pedersen rode in October went to December team camp in Spain where other top Lidl-Trek riders like Elisa Longo Borghini, Giulio Ciccone, and Jasper Stuyven confirmed exactly what Pedersen and everyone else had experienced.

Longo Borghini had so much faith in Trek’s process, she didn’t bother trying the second version.

“I was like, ‘Well, we want to give you options.’ And she was like, ‘Do I have to? I like this one.'” Bird says. “The riders were sitting on the Madone Gen 8, and they were like, ‘We love the way this descends.’ Over a year ago, we were like, ‘How are we going to figure this out?’ And now we’ve got something excellent.”

In all, Bird estimates that between 30-40 different prototypes were made for the Madone Gen 8, which includes models that were made solely for wind tunnel testing, and roughly 25 carbon laminates, eight of which made it to road testing.

The finished product.

That time, effort, and endless Circle, Square, Triangle testing resulted in a bike that is truly special, with near universal acclaim from Trek’s most demanding customers: The pros whose livelihoods depend on world class equipment. In the end, they had just one outstanding complaint about the bike after the design was finalized and sent to mass production in early 2024. 

“They wanted to ride it earlier,” Daubert says. “They actually asked to race it at Roubaix and Flanders this year. That would have been a few months ahead of when Trek was able to provide enough bikes. But they were calling Trek to say, ‘Hey, we want to ride this now, can you change your launch?'”

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Welcome to the joint website for the ancestral villages of Frank and Kolb, neighboring villages located near the Volga River in Saratov Province, Russia.

The purpose of this website is to help facilitate the following mission statement of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (AHSGR):

"An international organization dedicated to the discovery, collection, preservation, and dissemination of information related to the history, cultural heritage and genealogy of Germanic Settlers in the Russian Empire and their descendants."

Organizational Structure

It has been decided that the website be a joint site broken into 3 distinct sections. The 'main' section containing information common to both villages and genealogy in general, and the 'Frank' and 'Kolb' sections with information pertaining to each individual village respectively.

We hope that you will find this an informative and useful site and maybe even find a missing cousin or two.

If you are not a member or have been thinking of becoming one and have just been putting it off, we encourage you to check out your local chapter and join AHSGR. If there are no local chapters in your area you can always join AHSGR International, headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska. By joining the society you have valuable resources at your disposal not to mention the contacts you can make with other researchers. We are generally a very helpful group of people more than willing to share our knowledge, experience, and information with those interested in researching their family genealogy.

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Saratov Oblast, Russia

The capital city of Saratov oblast: Saratov .

Saratov Oblast - Overview

Saratov Oblast is a federal subject of Russia, part of the Volga Federal District. Saratov is the capital city of the region.

The population of Saratov Oblast is about 2,361,000 (2022), the area - 101,240 sq. km.

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History of Saratov Oblast

In the middle of the 13th century, prisoners captured by the Mongols from various conquered countries built in the area of present Saratov one of the first and largest towns of the Golden Horde - Uvek. Marco Polo mentioned the Venetians visiting this town in 1262.

In 1334, the Arab traveler Ibn Battuta visited Uvek and recorded that it was a town of “medium size, but beautifully built, with abundant blessings and severe cold”. At the end of the 14th century, the town was destroyed by Tamerlane.

In the next 200 years, a sparse population of the Wild Fields (the steppe to the north of the Black Sea and Azov Sea) was represented by the Nogai and Kalmyk nomads, Cossacks and fishing cooperatives of Russian monasteries. In the meantime, after the collapse of the Golden Horde, the Kazan Khanate was formed on the territory of the Kazan ulus, which, in 1552, was conquered by the Russian Tsar Ivan IV.

The fortress of Saratov was founded in the summer of 1590. In the first half of the 17th century, Saratov was a large fortress on the Volga River with about 300-400 streltsy (Russian guardsmen from the 16th to the early 18th centuries).

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In the spring of 1674, the fortress was moved to the opposite bank of the river. The locals were engaged in fishing, bread and salt trading. In June 1722, Peter I visited Saratov on his way to Persia.

In January 1780, the Saratov governorate (province) was established. In 1781, the coat of arms of Saratov was adopted: on the blue background of a heraldic shield you can see 3 silver fish (sterlet) swimming towards each other. Fish and water resources of the region were reflected in the coat of arms. Saratov became a rich merchant city.

In 1928-1932, Saratov was the center of Nizhnevolzhsky Krai, since 1934 - Saratov Krai, since 1936 - Saratov Oblast. In the 1930s, Saratov became one of the industrial centers of the country. On September 7, 1941, the territories of 15 cantons of the former Volga Germans Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic were united with Saratov Oblast. The current borders of the region were finalized in 1957.

In the 1950s-1970s, industry and agriculture, infrastructure and culture of the city and the region were developing rapidly. Until 1990, Saratov was a closed city, because there were many defense enterprises there, in particular, the Saratov Aircraft Plant, which produced military and civil aircraft. A lot of industrial enterprises of Saratov carried out orders for the Soviet space program.

Landscapes of Saratov Oblast

Forest-steppe landscape of the Saratov region

Author: Dmitry Kogan

Summer in Saratov Oblast

Author: Alexandr Rukavitshin

Railway in the Saratov region

Author: Konstantin Karavayev

Saratov Oblast - Features

Saratov Oblast, located in the south-eastern part of European Russia, stretches from west to east for 575 km, from north to south - for 330 km. In the east of the region there is the state border of Russia with Kazakhstan. The total length of the border is over 3,500 km.

The climate is moderately continental, summers are long, dry and hot, winters are frosty. The average temperature in January is minus 12 degrees Celsius, in July - plus 23 degrees Celsius. Such natural resources as oil, natural gas, shale oil, phosphorites, various sands and stones are presented.

Saratov Oblast is the only region in Russia that combines three natural and climatic zones: the forest-steppe, the steppe and the semidesert. About 80% of the region is located in the steppe zone. The Volga, dividing the region into two parts, is the main river. The largest cities and towns are Saratov (818,400), Engels (225,000), Balakovo (184,300), Balashov (74,100), Volsk (59,900).

In Saratov, on the bank of the Volga, the member of Saratov aviation club and industrial college graduate Yuri Gagarin made his first flight. It is interesting that after his legendary space flight he landed on the territory of the Saratov region. The second spaceman - Herman Titov - landed in this area too.

A lot of prominent figures of science and culture are associated with the Saratov region. This is the homeland of Russian writers and public figures N.G. Chernyshevsky, K.A. Fedin, L.A. Kassil, artists V.E. Borisov-Musatov, K.S. Petrov-Vodkin, composer A.G. Schnittke, inventor P.N. Yablochkov.

Saratov Oblast - Economy

In terms of the level and scale of industrial development, the Saratov region occupies one of the leading places in the Volga economic region. In the structure of industry, the largest shares belong to the fuel and energy complex, machine building, chemical and petrochemical, and food industries.

Local industry includes more than 2,000 large and medium-sized enterprises producing trolleybuses (Trolza), railway equipment (Engels transport machine building plant, Engels locomotive plant), power tools, precision instruments, refrigerators and freezers, liquid fuel and petrochemical products (Saratov Refinery), mineral fertilizers, copper rolling, building glass, cement.

Such large power plants as the Balakovo Nuclear Power Plant (4,000 MWt) and the Saratov Hydroelectric Power Plant (1,360 MWt) are located in the region producing about 25% of power in the Volga region and 3% of power in Russia.

Railway is the leading transportation in the province, over 90% of freight and about 40% of passenger turnover is made by railway. River transportation is developed fairly good, Saratov is the largest river port on the Volga River.

Tourism in Saratov Oblast

Tourism in the Saratov region is represented by visits to natural and cultural attractions. Eleven cities and towns are included in the list of historical towns of Russia: Atkarsk, Balakovo, Balashov, Volsk, Marx, Novouzensk, Pugachev, Petrovsk, Saratov, Khvalynsk, Engels.

Local nature delights visitors with its beauty. The Volga with its sandy beaches, hundreds of islands, the possibility of fishing and hunting is the main treasure of the region. On the territory of Samara oblast there are 124 nature monuments, zoological reserves, the Khvalynsky National Park, the Saratov and Volgograd reservoirs.

Ethnic tourism is associated with the culture of the Germans, who lived in the Volga region. In the town of Marx (former Ekaterinenstadt) there is a Lutheran Cathedral, built in the early 20th century, there are preserved German houses. There is an ethnographic museum in Engels.

Saratov Oblast has more than 300 monuments of architecture, over 3 thousand monuments of archeology, 18 old estates, 27 state museums. The main places of interest are:

• Museum of Local Lore, Art Museum, Museum of Military Glory on Sokolova Hill, Limonarium, House Museum of Chernyshevsky in Saratov,
• Local history museums in Balashov, Volsk, Petrovsk, Khvalynsk, Engels,
• Memorial House Museum of Chapaev in Pugachev,
• Museum of Long-Range Aviation, Literary Museum of Kassil in Engels,
• The landing site of Yuri Gagarin in Engels district,
• Ostrich farm in Lysogorsky district
• Stepan Razin’s cliff on the bank of the Volga, where according to legend Razin drowned the Persian princess,
• Pottery in the village of Zolotoye,
• Khvalynsky ski resort in the Khvalynsky National Park,
• Stolypin’s mineral waters (the resort named after Chapayev).

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Saratov oblast scenery.

Picturesque place to live in Saratov Oblast

Author: Sergey Kravtsov

Sunset in Saratov Oblast

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Fishing in the Saratov region

Pictures of Saratov Oblast

Bridges in the Saratov region

Country house in Saratov Oblast

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Golden autumn in Saratov Oblast

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Winter in the Saratov region

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Orthodox church in Saratov Oblast

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Saratov was home to both a Lutheran parish and a Roman Catholic parish which served the ethnic Germans living in this city.

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St. Clement Catholic Church

St. John Lutheran Church

St. Mary Lutheran Church

The Lutheran parish in Saratov was officially organized in 1793, although Pastor Ahlbaum was active in the city before then.

The Pope established the Diocese of Tiraspol, headquartered in Saratov on 3 July 1848. During its existence, there were five bishops:

Ferdinand Helanus Kahn (1850-1864) Franz Xavier Zottmann  (1872-1888) Anton Johann Zerr  (1889-1902) Eduard von der Ropp (1902-1903) Joseph Aloysius Kessler  (1904-1930)

This diocese went inactive in 1930 with the resignation of Bishop Kessler and officially vacant in 1933 when he died. It was formally "surpressed" in 2002 when the new Diocese of St. Clement in Saratov was established.

The Catholic parishners of Saratov built a wooden church which was consecrated in 1805. This building was used until 1880 when a new brick building was erected. The architect was M. N. Grudistova, and the new building was consecrated to St. Clement (St. Klemens in German) when it was completed in 1881. Today the structure serves as a movie theatre called "Pioneer."

In the post-Soviet era, the St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church was founded in 2001 in Saratov. It is part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ingria (ELCI). There is a chapel in Saratov, and the pastor serving there is Olav Panchu.

There were three frontier garrisons founded to protect merchant ships traveling on the Volga River: Saratov (1584), Samara (1586), and Tsaritsyn (1589). Over the next century, the settlements were rebuilt on first one side of the Volga and then the other following a series of natural disasters.  The 1670 peasant revolt led by Stepan Razin also thwarted development of these cities.

Saratov was the first point of arrival for the German colonists and the location of the Kontora (Office of Immigrant Oversite) following the establishment of the colonies in the 1760's. From its beginning as a provincial outpost, Saratov grew to become a prosperous city and served as the center of industry for the Volga German colonists.

Catholic and Lutheran

Maps of Saratov and Saratov Province

Schnurr, Joseph.  Die Kirchen und das Religiöse Leben der Russlanddeutschen  - Evangelischer Teil (Stuttgart: Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Russland, 1972): 194.

Saratov  (Wikipedia)

Roman Catholic Diocese of Tiraspol (Wikipedia)

Map of Saratov Province (1823) (World Digital Library)

Historic Saratov photos and maps  (Russian site)

Description of the city of Saratov and Saratov Province  ( Encyclopædia Britannica )

Geographic card depicting key features of Saratov Province (1856)  (World Digital Library)