Samara

Samara is a major city situated on the Volga River in the southeastern part of European Russia, Volga Federal District, the administrative center of Samara Oblast. Samara was founded in 1586 as a defense outpost, and later grew into a major grain-trading center for the Volga region. Samara is a large industrial and transportation center of European Russia. Important manufacturing in the met ...

Date added: 26 April '06

Tolyatti

Tolyatti or Togliatti is a city in Samara Oblast, Russia. Tolyatti's population is 702,879 (2002 Census). Tolyatti was founded in 1737 as Stavropol-on-Volga. In the 1950s, it fell into the flooding zone of the Kuybyshev dam on the Volga River and was completely rebuilt on a new site. In 1964, Tolyatti was renamed Togliatti (after Palmiro Togliatti, Italian communist leader). Tolyatti is kno ...

Date added: 08 May '06