Our city-Samara

Samara

• The capital of Samara Region
• Population 1.179.200 people
• Area 465.97 sq. km

Legislative body Samara City Council

Mayor Azarov Dmitrii

Ibex is the emblem of Samara

The flag of Samara

Samara was founded as a border fortress in 1586

Samara. Sobornaya Street ( Kuibyshev Street)

~1900-1905

The crossing of Saratovskaya and Panskaya streets

( The crossing of Frunze and Leningradskaya streets)

1881.

Kuibyshev Square with the monument to V.V. Kuibyshev

Until 1935 it had been called Sabornaya Square.

It was renamed after V.V Kuibyshev the revolutionary

who proclaimed the Soviet power in Samara

Alexeyvskaya Square

( Revolution Square.)

1914

Until 1918 it had been called

Alexeyvskaya Square.

It was the heart of the city

Lenin, Repin, Shalyyapin worked , lived here.

Now it is called Revolution Square

Revolution Square

Chapayevskaya Square

with the monument то Chapayev

and Academic Gorky Drama Theater

Square of Glory- a memorial, dedicated то the labour

exploits and heroic deeds of the Soviet people during

World Wor II

IL- 2 - a legendary air-plane,

which was produced by aviation plant in 1942

Samara Progress Plant made

a space launch «R-7» wich moved

with the spaceship «Vostok»

with U.Gagarin on board in 1961

Philarmonic society

The monument «Rocket»-

is a model of «Sous».

Chocolate factory

Samara‘s railway station

Zhigulevsk’s Beer factory

was founded by Alfred von Wakano in 1880