Tolyatti (Толья́тти) is a city in Samara Oblast, Russia. Geographical location 53°29′ N 49°31′ E It was founded in 1737 as Stavropol-on-Volga (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. Samara Oblast (Сама́рская о́бласть) is an administrative division of the Russian Federation. ... Events 12 February — The San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is inaugurated. ... // Events and trends The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the height of the baby-boom from returning... For other meanings of the word Volga see Volga (disambiguation) Волга Length 3,690 km Elevation of the source 225 m Average discharge ? m³/s Area watershed 1. ...
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 of VAZ (since 1971, in cooperation with the Fiat S.p.A.) and GM-AvtoVAZ (since 2001). 1964 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Palmiro Togliatti (March 26, 1893 - August 21, 1964) was an Italian communist leader. ... This page is about a car manufacturer. ... 1971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... Fiat S.p. ... GM-AvtoVAZ is a joint venture between General Motors and AvtoVAZ set up in 1999. ...
But Russia is likely to suffer the consequences of its AIDS epidemic, one of the fastest growing in the world, for years.
A Togliatti native, Terentyeva was married and a mother while still a teenager and divorced before she turned 21.
As Russia struggles to reverse a decline in its population over the past decade or so, the spread of HIV among women of child-bearing age is showing up already.
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