Samara

Also known as Kuybyshev, Samara, Russia

ciudad de Rusia

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Samara is a major Russian city of over 1.14 million people located where the Volga and Samara rivers meet, serving as the administrative center of Samara Oblast. It ranks as Russia's eighth-largest city and is an important population center in the Volga region, historically known as Kuybyshev during the Soviet period until 1991.

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Key facts

Russian inhabited locality.en_name: Samara
Russian inhabited locality.ru_name: Самара
Russian inhabited locality.other_name: Kuybyshev
Russian inhabited locality.pushpin_map: Russia Samara Oblast#European Russia#Russia#Europe
Russian inhabited locality.image_flag: Flag of Samara (Samara oblast).png
Russian inhabited locality.image_coa: Coat of Arms of Samara (Samara oblast).svg
Russian inhabited locality.federal_subject: Samara Oblast
Russian inhabited locality.adm_inhabloc_jur: city of oblast significance of Samara
Russian inhabited locality.adm_ctr_of1: Samara Oblast
Russian inhabited locality.adm_ctr_of2: Volzhsky District
Russian inhabited locality.inhabloc_cat: City

Article · Español

Samara (en ruso Сама́ра, Samara), conocida como Kúibyshev desde 1935 hasta 1991 (en honor a Valerián Kúibyshev; en ruso Ку́йбышев, Kuybyshev), es una ciudad ubicada en el suroeste de Rusia, en el distrito federal del Volga, capital del óblast homónimo. Con 1 164 896 habitantes en 2010 es la sexta más poblada del país, por detrás de Moscú, San Petersburgo, Novosibirsk, Ekaterimburgo y Nizhni Nóvgorod. Está situada a la orilla del río Volga, cerca de los montes Zhigulí. En el año 2018 en la ciudad se jugaron varios partidos del Campeonato Mundial de Fútbol.

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