Volsk (Russian: Вольск) is a town in Saratov Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Volga River, opposite the mouth of the Bolshoy Irgiz (a tributary of the Volga), 147 kilometers (91 mi) northeast from Saratov, the administrative center of the oblast.

[14] It was founded in 1699 as the sloboda of Malykovka (Малыковка) and was granted town status and renamed Volgsk (Волгск) in 1780.

[citation needed] After the October Revolution of 1917, Volsk became a major center of cement production.

15-year-old seventh-grader Daniil Pulkin threw two Molotov cocktails and hit a 12-year-old girl on the head with an axe , after which he fled the scene of the crime.

[6] As an administrative division, it is, together with the work settlement of Kleny and three rural localities, incorporated separately[6] as the town of oblast significance of Volsk[6]—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.