Samara, Russia facts for kids
Samara (Russian: Самара) is the ninth largest city in Russia. It is the administrative center of Samara Oblast. About 1,164,685 people live in the city.
It is in the southeastern part of European Russia at the confluence of the Volga and Samara Rivers. It is on the east bank of the Volga. Samara is the economic and cultural center in European Russian. They hosted the European Union–Russia summit in May 2007.
From 1935 to 1991 the city was known as Kuybyshev (Russian: Куйбышев).
Images for kids
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The Volga River in Samara
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Monument after the painting Barge Haulers on the Volga by Ilya Repin at the banks of the Volga
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The Cosmos Arena hosted the 2018 FIFA World Cup games
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Dmitri Shostakovich, 1950
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Scania OmniLink bus
See also
In Spanish: Samara para niños
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