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Samara: Samara Region
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From the beginning of the nineties Samara is an open city with regard to establishing business and cultural links. The city established partnership relations with many countries of the world. Samara develops sister-city relations with Stuttgart, St.-Louis, Stara-Zagora, Dnepropetrovsk, Zhengzhou, Kaliningrad and Feodosia in dealing with social problems in health care, education and culture. Municipality of Stuttgart, West-East Society, Circle Supporting Children Laken iII with Cancer, Olgahospital, Katharinenhospital supplied health care institutions of Samara and the Region with medical equipment and medicaments. Regularly held conferences and seminars with the assistance of foreign colleagues make it possible to exchange experience, attract medical men to advanced training, upgrade the quality of diagnostics, apply innovative treatment techniques.
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Samara Region is the most developed part of the Volga region. Of the 89 constituent regions of the Russian Federation, it is in second place after Moscow in total retail turnover volumes. The region's economy experienced a recession, but less than in other regions. The crisis particularly affected industrial sectors, such as the oil and chemical industries, engineering, and the military-industrial complex. Samara Region is currently one of the few Russian regions to see the return of a certain amount of economic stability and a way out of the crisis.
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In 1901 Samara gubernia had 891 churches, 10 nunneries and 7 covenants. Since 1851 Samara became the main town of "Samara eparhia" (Samara diocese). In Samara there were many churches. Catholic Polish temple was built in 1906 and now is the building of the museum of regional studies. German Lutheran church which was built during 1865 - 1875 is now functioning. It was named after Saint George.
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Samara Region has considerable cultural potential, with 4 theaters, 12 museums and their branches, a philharmonic, a state symphony orchestra, and one of the finest art galleries in the Volga region. The museum of local history has a superb collection of more than 114 000 exhibits. The Lenin Science Library has unique book stocks; there is ... a library for the blind. The 842 state and municipal libraries provide library services for regional residents. The Novokuibyshevsk and Chapaevsk central library systems, the Samara branch of the children's library, and the regional children's library were the winners at the All-Russian library project competition "The Library on the Threshold of the 21st Century" organized by the Open Society Institute.
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With the consolidation of the Russian state around Moscow, Samara's strategic significance declined. In 1688, Samara was recognized as the regional city and began to develop as a center of trade and commerce serving communities in the regions of central Russia and the Volga basin. During 17th -18th centuries, Samara served as shelter for the participants in the peasant revolts of Stepan Razin (c.1630-1671) and Yemelyan Pugachev (c.1742-1775). Following the abolition of serfdom in Russia (1861), Samara became a center of the agriculture and flour industries. The first railway that connected Siberia with the Ural region ran through Samara.
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Infant mortality rate in Samara Region is the lowest all over Russia now. Technical assistance provided by the Swiss Government helped to mount new equipment at Studiony Ovrag Water Treatment Plant. Installation of Potable Water Ozonization Commercial Plant is on the schedule.
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