Samara, Russia(more)Samara is now one of the largest industrial cities of Russia and the center of a network of pipelines, with oil refining and petrochemicals the major industries, especially in the satellite town of . There are huge engineering factories making a wide range of products, including petroleum equipment, machinery, , cables, and precision machine tools, and there are many building-materials and consumer-goods industries. Much of the city’s power comes from a hydroelectric-power plant completed in 1957 at Zhigulyovsk, a few miles upstream. A group of industrial and residential suburbs and satellite towns ring the city. Samara has excellent communications by ship along the Volga and along rail lines connecting it to European Russia, , and . The city has cultural and research establishments and several institutions of . Pop. (2005 est.) 1,151,681. This article was most recently revised and updated by ., Samara, a formerly known as Kuybyshev (1935–1991), 15 is the largest city and administrative centre of Samara Oblast in Russia. The city is located at the confluence of the Volga and the Samara rivers, with a population of over 1.14 million residents, 16 up to 1.22 million residents in the urban agglomeration, not including Novokuybyshevsk, which is not conurbated. The city covers an area of , Самара раÑположена напротив СамарÑкой Луки, на левом берегу СаратовÑкого водохранилища на реке Волге, между уÑтьÑми рек Самары и Сок. Город имеет неправильную, «изрезанную» на Ñевере форму. ПротÑжённоÑть в .