Samara (rus)

Samara

Samara ranks 687th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Örebro, Barranquilla, and Numazu. Memorable people born in Samara include Dmitry Ustinov, Mikhail Fradkov, and Dmitry Muratov. Memorable people who died in Samara include Grigory Shtern, and Alexandre Michon. Samara has been the birth place of many politicians, and soccer players and the death place of many military personnels, and photographers. Samara is located in Russia.

Samara, formerly known as Kuybyshev (1935–1991), is the largest city and administrative centre of Samara Oblast in Russia. The city is located at the confluence of the Volga and the Samara rivers, with a population of over 1.14 million residents, up to 1.22 million residents in the urban agglomeration, not including Novokuybyshevsk, which is not conurbated. The city covers an area of 541.4 square kilometers (209.0 sq mi), and is the eighth-largest city in Russia and tenth agglomeration, the third-most populous city on the Volga, as well as the Volga Federal District. Read more on Wikipedia