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Samara: Cities
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Release: in the form of “gorod.Samara” font with the four styles (“gorod” is a “city of” in Russian). Normal and Bold styles differ from each other with the thickness of their kerchiefs. In Italic and Bold-Italic styles the characters even have broken into a dance: some jumped up, some squatted.
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Samara's primary economic sector is industry, especially heavy industry (77% of the total), which employs 137 000 people, or 40% of employed city residents. The engineering complex includes the aerospace, electrical, cable, and machine tool industries; instrument-making; bearing production; and production of oilfield, construction, and agricultural equipment.
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Samara is now one of the largest industrial cities of Russia and the center of a network of pipelines, with oil refining and petrochemicals the major industries, especially in the satellite town of Novokuybyshevsk. There are huge engineering factories making a wide range of products, including petroleum equipment, machinery, ball bearings, cables, and precision machine tools, and there are many building-materials and consumer-goods industries. Much of the city's power comes from a hydroelectric-power plant completed in 1957 at Zhigulyovsk, a few miles upstream. A group of industrial and residential suburbs and satellite towns ring the city. Samara has excellent communications by ship along the Volga and along rail lines connecting it to European Russia, Siberia, and Central Asia. The city has cultural and research establishments and several institutions of higher education.
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January 1991 — historically fixed name Samara was given back to the city. At the close of the X c Samara is one of major industrial cities of Russia with a powerful cultural potential, multinational population and great history. Samara is known to be the leading industrial center of the Volga Area. The city is among the top ten Russian cities as regards produced national income and industry volume. Samara stands for world-famous launch vehicles, satellites and various space services, engines and cable, aircraft and rolled aluminum, block-module power stations; refinery, chemical and cryogenic products; gas-pumping units; bearings of different sizes, drilling bits; automated electric equipment; airfield equipment; truck-mounted cranes; construction materials; chocolate made by Russia Chocolate Factory; vodka Rodnik; Zhiguli beer; food processing and light industry products.
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In 1992, the Jewish National Center of Samara was organized. Rabbi Shlomo Deutch of the Chabad movement was appointed Chief Rabbi of Samara in 2000. In 2001 Roman Beigel was elected the president of the Jewish Community of Samara. In January 2002, for the first time after 100 years the synagogue of Samara received a new Torah scroll. The city is the center of Jewish activity for all 35,000 Jews living in the region of Samara. In 2003, about 10,000 Jews lived in Samara representing 0.67% of the total population of the city.
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Samara was not left out of the dramatic events of the first half of the 20th century. The First World War and the Civil War left a deep imprint in the territory's history; many historical monuments were destroyed. In 1935, the city and region were renamed Kuibyshev after the famous revolutionary who proclaimed Soviet power in Samara. The region has existed within its present boundaries since December 1936.
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