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Samara, known from 1935 to 1991 as Kuybyshev , is the sixth largest city in Russia and the administrative center of Samara Oblast. It is situated in the south-eastern part of European Russia at the confluence of the Volga and Samara Rivers on the east bank of the Volga.
Formerly a closed city, Samara is now a large and important social, political, economic, industrial, and cultural centre in European Russia. Samara's riverfront is considered one of the favourite recreation places both for local citizens and tourists. After the Soviet novelist Vasily Aksyonov visited Samara, he r...
