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