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Samara is a city with the population of 1.3 million people situated 1,000 km south-east of Moscow. It stretches 60 km (37.3 miles) along the largest European River, the Volga. More than 100 nationalities live together peacefully in Samara. A number of cultural-educational Centres, including American Council, Alliance Francaise, British Council, Goethe Institute have their branches in this large multinational city.
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Samara, formerly know as Kuybishev during Soviet era, is the fifth largest city in Russia with 1,2 million inhabitants. It is situated in the east of European Russia on the confluence of the Samara and Volga rivers, about 700 miles south-east of Moscow. Despite its dimensions, Samara remains relatively unknown abroad, as this city used to be closed for foreign visitors due to a high concentration of aerospace plants, military and other defense related companies on its region. Now, since the fall of Soviet Union, Samara is finally open to foreign visitors.
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Samara is proud of its uncommon nature. The National Park “Samaraskaya Luka” is a unique place formed by the curve of the largest European river Volga. The ancient Zhiguli mountains form a kind of island inside the curve. Samarskaya Luka is the shelter for many relict and endemic plants and animals. The plants whose habitats are separated by many hundreds and even thousands kilometers in the rest of Russia grow here side by side. The same singularity and variety are characteristic of the fauna.The national park is ... the place of a number of archaeological findings dating back as early as 4th and 5th cent AD.
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Samara was founded in 1586 as a strategic ostrogue, a fortress for protecting Russia’s commercially valuable waterways. It was built largely by the military, using peasant labor, at the confluence of the Volga and Samarka rivers. Samara was officially recognized as a town in 1688 but would be ruled by a voevoda, a naval officer, until 1775. This official was in charge of collecting customs and attempting to curb the piracy of nomadic tribes along the Volga.
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It is hard to imagine a finer and more fortunate location than Samara, the administrative, industrial, and cultural center of the Middle Volga. The city stands in the center of a boundless expanse of steppe on the high left bank of the Volga River, bounded by the Zhiguli Mountains. Most of the city is situated in the area between the Volga and its left tributary, the Samara River. The elevation drop of the banks of the Volga ranges from 28 to 150-200 m. The Zhiguli Mountains near Samara formed the Samara Bend in the Volga River.
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Samara is one of the largest cities in Russia, the capital of Samara Region, with the population of over 1,164,000 people (2003). It is situated in the European part of Russia on the Volga River. Samara is one of the major economic, industrial and cultural cities of Russia.
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