Tolyatti

Tolyatti (?????????) is a city in Samara Oblast, Russia. Geographical location It was founded in 1737 as Stavropol-on-Volga (???????????). In the 1950s it fell into the flooding zone of the Kuybyshev dam on the Volga river and was completely rebuilt on a new site.

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In 1964, the city was renamed Tolyatti (after Palmiro Togliatti, Italian communist leader). As of 2002, it had a population of 701,900. The city is known primarily for the automobile production plants of VAZ (since 1971, in cooperation with the Fiat S.p.A.) and GM-AvtoVAZ (since 2001). It is also the site of one of the largest Orthodox cathedrals in the world.

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Samara Oblast: Samara Oblast (?????????? ????????) is an administrative division of the Russian Federation. It is located in the Privolzhsky (Volga) Federal District. The administrative center is Samara....

Russia: The Russian Federation (, transliteration: Rossiyskaya Federatsiya or Rossijskaja Federacija), or Russia (Russian: ???????, transliteration: Rossiya or Rossija), is a country that stretches over a vast expanse of Europe and Asia. With an area of 17,075,400 km? (6,595,600 mi?), it is the largest coun...

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