Tolyatti
Tolyatti (Russian: Тольятти) is a city in Samara Oblast, Russia. It is the second-largest city of Samara Oblast. As of 2010, the city has 719,632 people.
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History
Tolyatti is known formerly as Stavropol until 1964. The city was founded as a fortress in 1738 and known as Stavropol, it was given city status in 1780 and again in 1946. Became more prominent by Samara, it remained unimportant until the beginning in 1950 of the huge V.I.
Geography
The city was 988 kilometers southeast of Moscow, 1,700 kilometers southeast of Saint Petersburg, 637 kilometers south of Nizhny Novgorod, and 995 kilometers southeast of Yekaterinburg.
Population
As of 2010, Tolyatti has 719,632 people. In 2005, it has 704,792 people.
Gallery
AvtoVAZ Administration Building in Tolyatti.
Preobrazhensky Sobor, a Russian Orthodoxy-christianity church in Tolyatti.
Administration and government hall of Tolyatti.
