This article is not about Samarra, which is in Iraq.
Samara (Russian: Сама́ра), from 1935 to 1991—Kuybyshev (Russian: Ку́йбышев), is a major city situated on the Volga River in the southeastern part of European Russia, Privolzhsky (Volga) Federal District, the administrative center of Samara Oblast. It was founded in 1586 as a defense outpost, and later grew into a major grain-trading center for the Volga region. Important manufactures include motor vehicles, railroad equipment, chemicals, and machinery. The city also has an aerospace industry, producing the Soyuz spacecraft. Due to this industry the city was a closed city during the Cold War. It was the reserve capital of the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1943 when German troops threatened Moscow.
The city is served by highways and railways, as well as international airlines, among them Lufthansa flying to and from Frankfurt. Airport code is KUF. It also has a subway line.
One popular tourist location in Samara is Stalin's bunker, a World War II bunker built to house military operation in the event that Moscow was taken. This monument is located south west of Kuybyshev Square, behind a series of apartment complexes.
As of 2002, the population of the city was 1,157,880.
The Novo-Kuibyshev, Kuibyshev and Syzran refineries, all situated in the region of Samara, are majority-owned by Yukos.
The program states that one ordinary share in the Achinsk refinery may be exchanged for one Yukos share, one ordinary share in the Kuibyshev refinery for 13 Yukos shares, one ordinary share in the Novo-Kuibyshev refinery for 0.6 Yukos shares and one ordinary share in the Syzran refinery for 30 Yukos shares.
At the Novo-Kuibyshev refinery, first priority is to be given to the reconstruction of catalytic cracking operations and the conversion of the hydro-refining and Parex unit to light hydro-cracking and isomeration.
V.V. Kuibyshev, another high-level planner and one of Stalin's proteges, confessed in a letter to his wife how he had finessed the industrial plan he had developing.
Eventually Kuibyshev swallowed any doubts he may have had and began cooking the books in such a way as to make the five-year plan, risky as it was, totally unrealizable.
Kuibyshev had recklessly predicted that costs would go down, meanwhile they went up: although the plan allocated 22 billion rubles for industry, transportation and building, the Soviets spent 41.6 billion.
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