Tolyatti (Толья́тти) is a city in Samara Oblast, Russia. It was founded in 1737 as Stavropol-na-Volge (Ста́врополь). In the 1950s it fell into the flooding zone of the Kuybyshev dam on the Volga river and was completely rebuilt on a new site.
In 1964, the city was renamed Tolyatti (after Palmiro Togliatti, Italian communist leader). As of 2002, it had a population of 701,900. The city is famous mainly for the automobile production plants VAZ (since 1971, in cooperation with the Fiat motor company at that time).
When the party was banned by the Italian Fascist government in 1926, Togliatti was one of few leaders not to be arrested, as he was attending the Moscow at a meeting of the Comintern.
Togliatti died as a result of cerebral haemorrhage while vacationing with his companion Nilde Iotti in Yalta, then in the Soviet Union.
According to some of his collaborators, Togliatti was travelling to the Soviet Union in order to give his support to Leonid Brezhnev's election as Nikita Khrushchev's successor at the lead of Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
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