Ulyanovsk

Ulyanovsk (??????????, formerly Simbirsk (?????????)) is a city on the Volga River in Russia. Both Vladimir Lenin and Alexander Kerensky were born there.

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Geographical location Population (2002): 635,600.

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Ulyanovsk is the administrative center of Ulyanovsk Oblast. It is home to a large automobile manufacturing plant - UAZ.

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The city, founded in 1796, was known as Simbirsk prior to 1924 when it was renamed in honor of Vladimir Ulyanov, better known as Lenin.

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Simbirsk defied all of Stenka Razin's efforts to capture it.

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Volga River: The Volga river in Western Russia, Europe's longest river, with a length of 3,690 km (2,293 miles), provides the core of the largest river system in Europe....

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...

Vladimir Lenin: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Russian: ????????? ?????? ?????? ), original surname Ulyanov (????????) (April 22 (April 10 (O.S.)), 1870 – January 21, 1924), was a Russian revolutionary, the leader of the Bolshevik party, the first Premier of the Soviet Union, and the main theorist of Leninism, which ...