Mikhailovka is located 21 kilometers from Saratov. To the south of the village flows the Latryk River, into which a stream from a large ravine flows, dividing the village into two parts. Previously, Mikhailovka was called Ustinovka.

The village of Ustinovka, founded in the 18th century on the banks of the Latryk River, was named after the landowner Ustinov. Later, after the opening of the church in honor of Archangel Michael, the village became known as Mikhailovka. To the east of it ran the Astrakhan postal tract, connecting Saratov and Kamyshin.

According to the 1859 census, Mikhailovka had 103 households, with 346 men and 356 women living there, and a mill was in operation. During the Soviet era, the village remained large and was the center of the eponymous village council. On December 20, 1918, a communist cell was established here. Despite the anti-religious campaigns, the church survived, although it was closed.

In 1825, state councilor Mikhail Adriyanovich Ustinov built a stone church with two altars: in honor of Archistrategos Michael and the holy teachers Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian, and John Chrysostom. The church had a priest and a psalmist, for whom houses were built. A school operated at the church. The church remained this way until the 1930s.

In 1937, according to local resident Valentina Mikhailovna Lyovushkina, the church was closed, and priest Nikolai Vasilyevich Perov was taken away in an unknown direction. Residents were allowed to take church property, including the priest's vestments. V.M. Lyovushkina's parents, Anna Denisovna Belogolovtseva and Nikolai Ivanovich Isaychev, found a large icon of the Three Hierarchs at the mill and bought it to take to Saratov, to the Dukhososhenstvennaya Church. The Mikhailov church was turned into a warehouse, where a fire later occurred, destroying the iconostasis and frescoes.

In 1991, the Mikhailov church was revived with the registration of the Orthodox parish. Since then, repair and restoration work has been underway in the church. In 2007, a mosaic floor was laid, iconostases for the main and refectory churches were made, tiles were laid in the sanctuary, iron doors were installed, and the walls of the refectory church were plastered and painted. In 2009, bells made with the funds of a Saratov benefactor were consecrated. A holy spring with a baptismal font is located a few meters from the church.