Samara
Samara, the sixth largest city in Russia and capital of an eponymous region, lies on the Volga River in European Russia. It is a major economic, industrial and cultural centre and has a population of over 1,164,000.
- Type: City with 1,150,000 residents
- Description: city in Samara Oblast, Russia
- Also known as: “Kuibishev”, “Kúibixev”, “Kúibyshev”, “Kujbisev”, “Kujbiŝev”, “Kujbyschew”, “Kujbyšev”, “Kujbyszew”, “Samaara”, “Samarra”, “Κούιμπισεφ”, “г.Самара”, “Куйбишев”, “Куйбышаў”, “Куйбышев қаласы”, “Сама́ра”, “Самара қаласы”, “ஸமாரா, ரஷ்யா”, “サマラ・ロシア”, and “古比雪夫”
- Historically known as: “Kuibyschew”, “Kuibyshev”, and “Kuybyshev”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Samara and The Catholic Church Of The Sacred Heart Of Jesus Christ.
Samara
Railway station
The Catholic Church Of The Sacred Heart Of Jesus Christ
Church
The Gorky Samara Academic Drama Theatre
Theater building
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Samarsky City District and Rozhdestveno.
Samarsky City District
Suburb
Samarsky City District is a district of the city of Samara, Samara Oblast, Russia.
Samara
- Categories: big city, fortress, city or town, City of oblast significance, city/town in Russia, and locality
- Location: Samara Oblast, Volga Region, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.1956° or 53° 11′ 44″ north
Longitude
50.1015° or 50° 6′ 5″ east
Population
1,150,000
Elevation
107 metres (351 feet)
IATA airport code
KUF
UN/LOCODE
RU KUF
Open location code
9H5G54W2+7H
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Samara” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Samara”
- Albanian: “Samara”
- Amharic: “ሰማረ”
- Amharic: “ሳማራ”
- Arabic: “سامارا”
- Arabic: “سمارا”
- Armenian: “Սամարա”
- Asturian: “Samara”
- Azerbaijani: “Samara”
- Balinese: “Samara”
- Bashkir: “Һамар”
- Basque: “Samara”
- Belarusian: “Самара”
- Bengali: “সামারা”
- Bosnian: “Samara”
- Breton: “Samara”
- Bulgarian: “Самара”
- Burmese: “ဆာမာရာမြို့”
- Catalan: “Samara”
- Cebuano: “Samara”
- Central Kurdish: “سامارا”
- Chavacano: “Samara”
- Chechen: “Самара”
- Chinese: “萨马拉”
- Chinese: “薩馬拉”
- Church Slavic: “Самара”
- Chuvash: “Самар”
- Crimean Tatar: “Samara”
- Croatian: “Samara”
- Czech: “Samara”
- Danish: “Samara”
- Dimli (individual language): “Samara”
- Dutch: “Samara”
- Eastern Mari: “Самара”
- Eastern Mari: “Самаре”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سمارا”
- Erzya: “Самар ош”
- Esperanto: “Samara”
- Esperanto: “Samaro”
- Estonian: “Samara”
- Faroese: “Samara”
- Fijian: “Samara”
- Finnish: “Samara”
- French: “Samara”
- Galician: “Samara”
- Georgian: “სამარა”
- German: “Samara”
- Greek: “Σαμάρα”
- Gujarati: “સમારા”
- Hakka Chinese: “Samara”
- Hausa: “Samara”
- Hebrew: “סמרה”
- Hindi: “समारा, रूस”
- Hindi: “समारा”
- Hungarian: “Szamara”
- Icelandic: “Samara”
- Ido: “Samara”
- Inari Sami: “Samara”
- Indonesian: “Samara”
- Interlingue: “Samara”
- Irish: “Samara”
- Italian: “Samara”
- Japanese: “サマーラ”
- Javanese: “Samara”
- Kalaallisut: “Samara”
- Kannada: “ಸಮಾರ”
- Kannada: “ಸಮಾರಾ”
- Kazakh: “Самара”
- Kirghiz: “Самара”
- Komi-Permyak: “Самара”
- Komi: “Самара”
- Korean: “사마라”
- Kotava: “Samara”
- Ladin: “Samara”
- Latin: “Samara”
- Latvian: “Samara”
- Latvian: “Samāra”
- Limburgan: “Samara”
- Lithuanian: “Samara”
- Lower Sorbian: “Samara”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Samara”
- Macedonian: “Самара”
- Malagasy: “Samara”
- Malay: “Samara”
- Maltese: “Samara”
- Maori: “Hamara”
- Marathi: “समारा”
- Mazanderani: “سامارا”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Samara”
- Mingrelian: “სამარა”
- Moksha: “Самара”
- Mongolian: “Самар хот”
- Mongolian: “Самара”
- Nauru: “Samara”
- Nepali: “सामरा”
- Northern Frisian: “Samara”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Samara”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Samara”
- Norwegian: “Samara”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Samara”
- Oromo: “Samara”
- Ossetian: “Самарæ”
- Panjabi: “ਸਮਾਰਾ”
- Persian: “سامارا”
- Polish: “Samara”
- Portuguese: “Samara”
- Pushto: “سمارا”
- Pushto: “سمارہ”
- Quechua: “Samara”
- Romanian: “Samara”
- Russia Buriat: “Самара”
- Russian: “Куйбышев” (historical)
- Russian: “Самара”
- Scots: “Samara”
- Serbian: “Samara”
- Serbian: “Самара”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Samara”
- Silesian: “Samara”
- Sinhala: “සමාරා”
- Slovak: “Samara”
- Slovenian: “Samara”
- Somali: “Samara”
- South Azerbaijani: “سامارا، روسیه”
- Southern Altai: “Самара”
- Spanish: “Samara”
- Swahili: “Samara”
- Swedish: “Samara”
- Tagalog: “Samara, Russia”
- Tajik: “Самара”
- Talysh: “Samara”
- Tamil: “சமாரா, இரசியா”
- Tamil: “சமாரா”
- Tatar: “Самар”
- Tatar: “Самара”
- Telugu: “సమారా”
- Thai: “ซามารา”
- Tumbuka: “Samara”
- Turkish: “Samara”
- Turkmen: “Samara”
- Twi: “Samara”
- Udmurt: “Самара”
- Ukrainian: “Самара”
- Upper Sorbian: “Samara”
- Urdu: “سمارا، روس”
- Uzbek: “Samara”
- Venetian: “Samara”
- Veps: “Samar”
- Vietnamese: “Samara”
- Volapük: “Samara”
- Waray (Philippines): “Samara”
- Welsh: “Samara”
- Western Armenian: “Սամարա”
- Western Frisian: “Samara”
- Western Panjabi: “سامارہ”
- Wu Chinese: “萨马拉”
- Yakut: “Самарҕа”
- Yue Chinese: “薩馬拉”
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