Timeline of Samara

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Samara, Russia.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Prior to 20th century

• 1586 - Fortress established.[1]
• 1685 - Cathedral built.[2]
• 1824 - September: Tsar Alexander I visits town.[3]
• 1850
  • Samara government established.[3]
  • Iversky Monastery [ru] founded.[4]
• 1851 - Strukovsky Garden opens.
• 1871 - Vasily Bureya [ru] becomes mayor.
• 1881 - Zhigulevsky Brewery [ru] built.[5]
• 1882 - Society of Doctors established.[3]
• 1883 - Population: 63,479.[2]
• 1894 - Cathedral of Christ the Savior (Samara) [ru] built.[2]
• 1897 - Population: 91,672.[2]

20th century

• 1913 - Population: 144,000.[6]
• 1928 - City becomes part of the Middle Volga Oblast.[7]
• 1932 - Botanical Garden State University established.[8]
• 1935
  • Samara renamed "Kuybyshev" (after Valerian Kuybyshev).[9]
  • Cathedral of Christ the Savior demolished.
• 1941 - National government relocated to Kuybyshev from Moscow.[10]
• 1942 - Football Club Krylia Sovetov Samara formed.
• 1943 - National government relocated from Kuybyshev back to Moscow.[10]
• 1957 - Metallurg Stadium opens.
• 1965 - Population: 948,000.[11]
• 1985 - Population: 1,257,000.[12]
• 1987 - Kuybyshev Metro begins operating; Kirovskaya (Samara Metro) and Yungorodok (Samara Metro) open.
• 1989 - Samara State University founded.[13]
• 1991 - Konstantin Titov becomes governor of the Samara Oblast.
• 1992 - Sovetskaya (Samara Metro) opens.
• 1993
  • Samara State Medical University active.[13]
  • Gagarinskaya (Samara Metro) and Sportivnaya (Samara Metro) open.
• 1997 - George Limansky [ru] becomes mayor.
• 1999 - Samara Mosque built.
• 2000 - City becomes part of the Volga Federal District.^[citation needed]

21st century

• 2002 - Moskovskaya (Samara Metro) opens.
• 2007
  • Rossiyskaya (Samara Metro) opens.
  • Vladimir Artyakov [ru] becomes governor of the Samara Oblast.[7]
• 2010 - Population: 1,164,896.[7]
• 2015 - Alabinskaya (Samara Metro) opens.

See also

• Samara history
• History of Samara
• List of mayors of Samara, Russia [ru]
• List of heads of the Samara, Russia region [ru]
• Other names of Samara e.g. Kuibyshev, Kuybyshev
• Timelines of other cities in the Volga Federal District of Russia: Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod

References

1. "О самаре: История" [History] (in Russian). Администрация го Самара (Administration of Samara). Retrieved 30 March 2015.
2. Britannica 1910.
3. Ministry of Ways of Communication 1900.
4. Russia & Belarus. Lonely Planet. 2006. ISBN 978-1-74104-291-7.
5. "Иcтория развития" (in Russian). ОАО "Жигулёвское пиво". Retrieved 30 March 2015.
6. "Russia: Principal Towns: European Russia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368440.
7. "Samara Oblast". Territories of the Russian Federation. Europa Territories of the World (13th ed.). Routledge. 2012. p. 221. ISBN 978-1-85743-646-4.
8. "Garden Search: Russian Federation". London: Botanic Gardens Conservation International. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
9. G.R.F. Bursa (1985). "Political Changes of Names of Soviet Towns". Slavonic and East European Review. 63 (2): 161–193. JSTOR 4209080.
10. Robert A. Saunders; Vlad Strukov (2010). Historical Dictionary of the Russian Federation. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7460-2.
11. "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1965. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations. 1966. Kuibyshev
12. United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1987). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1985 Demographic Yearbook. New York. pp. 247–289. Kuibyshev
13. Walter Rüegg [in German], ed. (2011). "Universities founded in Europe between 1945 and 1995". Universities Since 1945. History of the University in Europe. Vol. 4. Cambridge University Press. p. 575+. ISBN 978-1-139-49425-0.

This article incorporates information from the Russian Wikipedia.

Bibliography

• "Samara-Zlatoust Railway: Samara". Guide to the Great Siberian Railway. St. Petersburg: Ministry of Ways of Communication. 1900.
• "Samara (town)" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 24 (11th ed.). 1910. p. 108.
• "Samara", Russia, Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1914, OCLC 1328163
• William Henry Beable (1919), "Samara", Russian Gazetteer and Guide, London: Russian Outlook

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