Tolyatti
Sign in to saveTolyatti or Togliatti, known before 1964 as Stavropol, is a city in Samara Oblast, Russia. It is the largest city in Russia which is neither the administrative center of a federal subject, nor the largest city of a subject. Population: The city is best known as the home of Russia's largest car manufacturer AvtoVAZ (Lada). For this reason, Tolyatti is often dubbed "'''Russia's motor city" or "Russia's Motown'''" (in reference to Detroit in the United States—the spiritual home of the American automotive industry). It was renamed after Italian communist politician Palmiro Togliatti in 1964, upon
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Tolyatti is a city in Russia's Samara Oblast that has become synonymous with the country's automotive industry, serving as the home of AvtoVAZ, Russia's largest car manufacturer. The city, which was renamed in 1964 after Italian communist politician Palmiro Togliatti, is often called "Russia's motor city" or "Russia's Motown" because of its dominant role in Russian car production.
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- Stavropolsky District
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- Tolyatti Urban Okrug
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- History
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- City divisions
- Economy
- Transportation
- Culture, education, and sports
- Education
- Museums
- Sports
- Parks and monuments
- Media
- Religion
- Crime
- October 2007 bomb attack
- Organized crime
- Violent crimes
- Corruption
- Local government
- Twin towns – sister cities
- Partner cities
- Notable people
- Gallery
- See also
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Tolyatti or Togliatti, known before 1964 as Stavropol, is a city in Samara Oblast, Russia. It is the largest city in Russia which is neither the administrative center of a federal subject, nor the largest city of a subject. Population: The city is best known as the home of Russia's largest car manufacturer AvtoVAZ (Lada). For this reason, Tolyatti is often dubbed "'''Russia's motor city" or "Russia's Motown" (in reference to Detroit in the United States—the spiritual home of the American automotive industry). It was renamed after Italian communist politician Palmiro Togliatti in 1964, upon his death in the Soviet Union.
==History== Stavropol was founded as a fortress in 1737 by the Russian statesman Vasily Tatishchev. It was often informally referred to as Stavropol-on-Volga' to distinguish it from Stavropol, a larger city in southwest Russia, although Stavropol-on-Volga was never its official name.