17 May 1901. It began laying the building eye clinics in the area of ​​the parade, which was at the time on the street between the streets Bakhmetyevskaya Volskaya and Beloglinenskaya. The clinic was the first building to be built up gradually the area, and later on it was built one of the buildings of the Pedagogical Institute and private homes, suzivshie area to the size of a small street, which was named Zauloshnova (Saratovians that raised a red flag on the battleship Potemkin in 1905). Square parade ground as well known for the fact that it is a house museum of Viktor Borisov-Musatov.

The construction of the eye clinic was conducted from 1901 to 1904 in the image of one of the best hospitals of Madrid. The author of the project was a talented architect Zybin Saratov. An important contribution to the construction of the clinic made a graduate of the St. Petersburg Medical-Surgical Academy, Mikhail Fedorovich Volkov, who organized the collection of money for the construction of buildings and new equipment for the hospital. By profession a doctor - an ophthalmologist M.F.Volkov became the first head of a new eye hospital, and later mayor.

Now this building is located Clinic of eye diseases on the basis of the Saratov State Medical University with highly qualified doctors and the latest diagnostic and therapeutic equipment, known throughout the world and is considered one of the best in Russia.

The building of the eye hospital - a historic landmark of the city of Saratov and architectural monument, protected by the state.