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There's a redirect from Second Baku here. However, the article says nothing about why Samara is called so. Can it be explained? --'''[[User:Tone|Tone]]''' 17:36, 22 April 2008 (UTC) |
There's a redirect from Second Baku here. However, the article says nothing about why Samara is called so. Can it be explained? --'''[[User:Tone|Tone]]''' 17:36, 22 April 2008 (UTC) |
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According to the OFFICIAL Imperial Russian statistics Samara had on 1 / 14, 1913 95.500 inhabitants, not more. Stavropol nearby (which was renamed later after Italian Communist Party leader to Togliatti) was older than Samara and Volga looked totally different than today. Syzran on the other side of Volga had its population only 45.500. Town was mixed with different languages, Russian, Tatar, Deutsch, Moksha, Erza, Chuvass, and even Kalmuk languages. The town was a centre of business carried out by mainly the Volga Deutsch, invated to Russia by Empress Catherine the Great. My mother´s mother visited in Samara during spring 1920 on her journey from Petrograd to Orenburg to collect the harvest there to the Petrograd Bolshevik City Committee. Town had an European part and Oriental outlook. The first railway bridge, 1435 metre long, named Aleksander Bridge, was the first bridge built over Volga in 1887 - 1890. The Torgovaja was more Oriental Bazaar, than typical Russian market place. in 1888 completed "Schauspielhaus" had 1.120 places. In 1920 Samara was hit by Cholera famine as all the middle and southern Volga area. |
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In 1902 the following describtion by unknown traveller was published in one of the St.Petersburger newspaper; "Samara defies describtion. Its best streets are paved, others are welter of mud. This is the typical provincial town with houses ranging from dilapidated wooden structures to fine public and business offices and private residences in addition to 24 Greek churches. The town had grain elevators, flourmills, a brewery, tallow, soap, leather, and tobacco factories. |
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At the foot of a steep hill the great grey Volga flows past Samara. A paddle steamer looking like a row of two-story houses lay at a wharf piled high with goods... sacks of corn and flour, thousands of wooden cases, cart wheels... all asking urgently to be taken south before frost bocked the long waterway." |
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Volga flows for some distance along the edge of ridge, at its foot, in a west-to-east direction, and finally breaks through the "Samara Gates". West of the gates, however, there are traces of an older pre-glacial valley, between Simbirsk and Syzran, along which the river flowed until, probably, the last inter-glacial period. |
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Soyuz spacecraft is produced by RKK Energiya in Korolevo, Moscow region, not in Samara. --Avitek 05:54, 22 August 2005 (UTC) Progress cargo ship is produced in Samara
Kuybyshev or Kuibyshev?
Google says: 34,800 for Kuybyshev, 154,000 for Kuibyshev. --Yms 07:23, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
- All Russian translits are per WP:RUS. Google hits are not always a reliable indicator of transliteration used by Anglophones. See also discussion at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Cyrillic).—Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) 14:08, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
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Second Baku
There's a redirect from Second Baku here. However, the article says nothing about why Samara is called so. Can it be explained? --Tone 17:36, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
Samara
According to the OFFICIAL Imperial Russian statistics Samara had on 1 / 14, 1913 95.500 inhabitants, not more. Stavropol nearby (which was renamed later after Italian Communist Party leader to Togliatti) was older than Samara and Volga looked totally different than today. Syzran on the other side of Volga had its population only 45.500. Town was mixed with different languages, Russian, Tatar, Deutsch, Moksha, Erza, Chuvass, and even Kalmuk languages. The town was a centre of business carried out by mainly the Volga Deutsch, invated to Russia by Empress Catherine the Great. My mother´s mother visited in Samara during spring 1920 on her journey from Petrograd to Orenburg to collect the harvest there to the Petrograd Bolshevik City Committee. Town had an European part and Oriental outlook. The first railway bridge, 1435 metre long, named Aleksander Bridge, was the first bridge built over Volga in 1887 - 1890. The Torgovaja was more Oriental Bazaar, than typical Russian market place. in 1888 completed "Schauspielhaus" had 1.120 places. In 1920 Samara was hit by Cholera famine as all the middle and southern Volga area.
In 1902 the following describtion by unknown traveller was published in one of the St.Petersburger newspaper; "Samara defies describtion. Its best streets are paved, others are welter of mud. This is the typical provincial town with houses ranging from dilapidated wooden structures to fine public and business offices and private residences in addition to 24 Greek churches. The town had grain elevators, flourmills, a brewery, tallow, soap, leather, and tobacco factories.
At the foot of a steep hill the great grey Volga flows past Samara. A paddle steamer looking like a row of two-story houses lay at a wharf piled high with goods... sacks of corn and flour, thousands of wooden cases, cart wheels... all asking urgently to be taken south before frost bocked the long waterway."
Volga flows for some distance along the edge of ridge, at its foot, in a west-to-east direction, and finally breaks through the "Samara Gates". West of the gates, however, there are traces of an older pre-glacial valley, between Simbirsk and Syzran, along which the river flowed until, probably, the last inter-glacial period.