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, Dmitry Muratov, and Mikhail Fradkov. 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 during Soviet rule, 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 541.382 square kilometers (209.029 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