The Lada Samara disappeared from Canada after the 1997 model year, leaving the Niva as the only Lada sold in Canada for the 1998 model year.

Still, the Samara remained on sale in the UK right up to 4 July 1997, when the decision was made to withdraw from the UK and most other export markets.

The Samara came bottom of the annual 1996 and 1997 JD Power survey in the UK.

In the 1996 and 1997 Top Gear survey, the Lada Samara was named as the least satisfying car to own in Britain.

After 1997 the Samara was mostly sold in its homeland only, although it was still sold in some foreign markets with less strict emissions regulations.

The Samara 2, a lightly facelifted version with a fuel-injected version of the 1, 499 cc engine and a better gearbox, went on sale in limited numbers as the 2115 ( four-door sedan ) in 1997, built at the VAZ " special vehicles " unit.

The Tehachapi Community Orchestra Now called the Tehachapi Symphony Orchestra, was founded in 1997 by Joan Samara and Deborah Hand as an outgrowth of the Da Camera Players String Ensemble, and incorporated in 1998 by Gayel Pitchford.

In 2006, writing in the British Journal of Criminology, Dr Jeanine Baker and Dr Samara McPhedran found no measurable effect detectable from the 1997 firearms legislation with ARIMA statistical analysis but in subsequent years firearm homicides declined.

Writing in the British Journal of Criminology, Dr Jeanine Baker and Dr Samara McPhedran found no measurable effect detectable from the 1997 firearms legislation with ARIMA statistical analysis.

* 1997 – Alfa Bank draws US $ 40 million syndicated loan ; Euromoney declares Alfa Bank The Best Bank in Russia in 1997 ; first credit ratings received from Moody's and Standard & Poor's ( S & P ); Alfa Bank places the first issue of US $ 175 million, 3-year Eurobonds, becoming the first privately owned Russian bank to issue Eurobonds ; branches in Saint Petersburg and Samara open ; the value of total assets passes US $ 1 billion ;

* J. P. Mallory, " Samara Culture ", Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997.

Georgy Stepanovich Shonin () ( August 3, 1935 – April 7, 1997 ; born in Rovenky, Luhansk Oblast, ( now Ukraine ) but grew up in Balta of Ukrainian SSR ) was a Soviet cosmonaut, who flew on the Soyuz 6 space mission.

Yanukovych served as the Governor of Donetsk Oblast from 1997 to 2002.

* Honorary Citizen of Surgut ( 1997 ), Surgut Oblast ( 1998 ), Khanty-Mansiysk ( 1999 )

In 1997, he won election as head of the Tatsinsky District in Rostov Oblast and served until 2001.

Medvedchuk first entered the Verkhovna Rada ( parliament ) in 1997 by winning a by-election in the 171th District ( in the Zakarpattia Oblast ).

He became governor of Chelyabinsk Oblast in 1997.

Viktor Shershunov () ( 16 October 1950 – 20 September 2007 ) was the governor of Kostroma Oblast, Russia from 1997 to 2007.

He was also a deputy of legislative assembly of Perm Oblast from 1997 to 2000.

However, as has been pointed out by Alexis Manaster Ramer and Paul Sidwell ( 1997 ), Strahlenberg actually opposed the idea of a closer relationship between the languages which later became known as " Altaic "..

She was first elected to the House of Commons in the 1987 general election as member for the constituency of Maidstone ( which became Maidstone and The Weald in 1997 ).

In February 1997, cloning became the focus of media attention when Ian Wilmut and his colleagues at the Roslin Institute announced the successful cloning of a sheep, named Dolly, from the mammary glands of an adult female.

He became soon unpopular within the army, resulting in violent mutinies in 1996 – 1997.

Former Georgia Tech provost Jean-Lou Chameau became the eighth president of Caltech on September 1, 2006, replacing David Baltimore who had served since 1997.

A healthy Walker became the first player in club history to win the NL Most Valuable Player award in 1997, batting. 366 with 49 homers and 130 RBI.

In the election of 1997, the Hannara-dang became the opposition party for the first time.

Deng's vision for economic success and a new socialist market model became entrenched in the Party constitution in 1997 as Deng Xiaoping Theory.

Elwes met still photographer Lisa Marie Kurbikoff in 1991 at a Malibu chili cook-off and became engaged in 1997.

* Colonial ( Amtrak 1997 ), an Amtrak train that began running from Richmond, Virginia to New York train in 1977 and eventually became part of the Northeast Regional.

As prices declined over a period of years they became more popular, and by 1997 were competing with CRT monitors.

In 1997 General Krulak became a Life Member of the Sons of the Revolution in the State of California.

Incorporating experiments in British jungle and drum ' n ' bass, Earthling ( 1997 ) was a critical and commercial success in the UK and the US, and two singles from the album became UK top 40 hits.

Following the return of the Labour Party to government in 1997, Dewar became the Secretary of State for Scotland and campaigned for a ' Yes-Yes ' vote in the successful referendum on Scottish devolution.

At the 1997 general election he became MP for Glasgow Anniesland, which was largely the same constituency with minor boundary changes.

In 1997 Enya released her greatest hits collection, Paint the Sky with Stars: The Best of Enya, again a top five smash in the UK and Germany, which featured two new songs: " Paint the Sky with Stars " and " Only If ..."; " Only If ..." later became a single.

In 1997, Don Yannias, a long-time associate and investment advisor of Safra, became CEO of Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. A new company, Britannica. com Inc. was spun off in 1999 to develop the digital versions of the Britannica ; Yannias assumed the role of CEO in the new company, while that of Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. remained vacant for two years.

It became illegal in the United States on 30 March 1997, though according to a U. S. Centers for Disease Control estimate, 168, 000 girls living there as of 1997 had undergone it or are at risk.

Frederik Willem de Klerk ( born 18 March 1936 ), often known as F. W. de Klerk, was the seventh and last State President of apartheid-era South Africa, serving from September 1989 to May 1994. de Klerk was also leader of the National Party ( which later became the New National Party ) from February 1989 to September 1997.

The album was then released in November 1997, and debuted at number-one on both the Top Country Albums and Billboard 200 album charts in the United States, and later became his fourth album to reach a sales of 10 million copies.

Since the 1997 handover Hong Kong's economic future became far more exposed to the challenges of economic globalisation competition directly from mainland China.

Prior to the implementation of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office Act 1996 enacted by the British Parliament, Hong Kong represented its interests abroad through the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Offices ( HKETOs ) and via a special office in the British Embassies or High Commissions, but the latter has ceased after the sovereignty of Hong Kong was transferred to the PRC and became a special administrative region ( SAR ) of the PRC in 1997.

On October 16, 1997, Engdahl became a member of the Swedish Academy, elected to seat number 17 vacated by the death of Johannes Edfelt ; on June 1, 1999, he succeeded Sture Allén as the Academy's permanent secretary, i. e. its executive member and spokesperson.

In 1997, Harvey Mudd College became the sole American undergraduate-only institution ever to win 1st place in the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest.