Most notably, the Samara T3 came seventh in the 1990 Paris-Dakar Rally and fifth in 1991, piloted by none other than Jacky Ickx.

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

To provide support to the people, Fridtjof Nansen ( the famous polar explorer ), Martin Andersen Nexø ( a Danish writer ), the Swedish Red Cross Mission, and officers of the American Relief Administration from the United States came to Samara.

Lada's first attempt at a modern car came with the Samara hatchback in 1984 ( launched in the UK in November 1987 ), which made use of a completely new mechanical design.

It was preceded by the Early Eneolithic or Samara culture, from which it came, and succeeded by the Late Eneolithic, or Early Yamna culture, to which it descended.

In 1780, Samara was turned into an uyezd town of Simbirsk Governorate overseen by the local Governor-General, and Uyezd and Zemstvo Courts of Justice and a Board of Treasury were established.

Al-Mu ' tasim's successor, al-Wathiq, developed Samara into a commercial city, and it was further developed under Caliph al-Mutawakkil.

In 1918, he moved to Samara, where he was enlisted into Kolchak's White Army during Russian Civil War.

Kazanka begins near the village of Bimeri in Arsk District and flows into the Samara Reservoir in Kazan, near the Kazan Kremlin.

Owing to the military support from interventionists and kulaks and the Red Army's weakness, Komuch's power spread into the provinces of Samara, Simbirsk, Kazan, Ufa and Saratov in June-August 1918.

* July – November 1918: 1st Samara Infantry Division, transformed into 24th Rifle Division that took over Simbirsk ( Ulyanovsk ) and was later known as " Samara-Ulyanovsk Iron Division " ( Georgy Zhukov served under his command and highly praised him later in his memoirs ).

Ladas were first imported into Australia in 1984 with the Niva compact 4WD, and in 1988 the Samara three-door hatchback was introduced.

The Kuybyshev Aviation Enterprise was established in 1961 and on this basis 65 Squadron was formed and later transformed into Kuybyshev Joint Aviation Squadron ( KuAO ), Kuybyshev being the Soviet name of Samara.

In modern Russia, subdivision into volosts is used in the Republic of Karelia, where volosts have the same status as raions, and in Leningrad, Pskov, Samara, and Tula Oblasts, where volosts are considered subdivisions of raions and have the same status as selsovets in other Russian federal subjects.

A Bronze Age culture centered on the Samara bend in the middle Volga region, projecting well east into the Samara River valley.

2500-1900 BCE ) archaeological culture found in the valleys of the Volga and Kama River north of the Samara bend and into the southern Ural Mountains.

Still, Petrov-Vodkin didn't quite see himself in art at that time ; after graduating from middle school, he took a summer job at a small shipyard with plans to get into railroad college in Samara.

Even during his college years, Petrov-Vodkin managed to enter into conflict with the Russian Orthodox Church, which discarded his work on a chapel in Samara and ultimately destroyed it as unacceptable.

In 1987 the Favorit model was introduced, and was one of a triumvirate of compact Western-influenced front wheel drive hatchbacks from the three main Eastern Bloc manufacturers around that time, the others being VAZ's Lada Samara and Zastava's Yugo Sana.

The city has registered a brand The Third Capital of Russia, though a number of other major Russian cities compete for this status, like Samara, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg and Nizhny Novgorod, all being major cultural centers with rich history and prominent architecture.

In February 2009 ESA reported from Samara, Russia that the launchers destined for the ELS were being built.

New models like 2110 are still being sold in Turkey, though not with the success met by Samara.

The Samara was often sold under other names as well, in particular the VAZ 21099 ( Samara Sedan ), which was sold as the " Sagona " ( France ), " Diva " ( Belgium ), " Forma " ( Germany ) and " Sable " ( Australia ).

The Samara was a major change compared to other Lada models at the time, with a modern hatchback body-style and front-wheel drive as well as new engines featuring on the car.

Samara is also home to Semyon Varlamov of the NHL's Colorado Avalanche, as well as young up and coming tennis player Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.

The national symbols of the Bulgarians are the Flag, the Coat of Arms, the National anthem and the National Guard, as well other unofficial symbols such as the Samara flag.

Groups of Bashkirs also live in the republic of Tatarstan, Perm Krai, Chelyabinsk, Orenburg, Tyumen, Sverdlovsk, Kurgan, Samara and Saratov Oblasts of Russia, as well as in Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and other countries.

Tolyatti has its airport as well, but it is used by personal aircraft only ( nearest international airport, " Kurumoch ", is located 40 km away, towards Samara ).

It was originally established as the Tatar ASSR within the Russian SFSR on May 27, 1920 from Kazansky, Chistopolsky, Mamadyshsky, Sviyazhsky, Tetyushinsky, Laishevsky, and Spassky Uyezds of the of former Kazan Governorate, Yelabuzhsky Uyezd of Ufa Governorate, as well as the part of Simbirsk, Samara, and Vyatka Governorates.

Additionally, the company imports, markets, wholesales, and distributes Rodnik Gold, Rodnik Classic, and flavored vodkas, as well as a number of other Rodnik vodkas produced at the Samara distillery under private labels.

The valley of the Samara river contains sites from subsequent cultures as well, which are descriptively termed " Samara cultures " or " Samara valley cultures ".

The Samara period is not as well excavated or as well known as the other two.

The range of the Samara culture is the forest-steppe terrain of the middle Volga, but the North Caspian culture of the lower Volga is early Eneolithic as well.

Scores by Spyridon Samaras ( Spiro Samara ), Pavlos Carrer ( Paolo Carrer ), the Liberali brothers, Spyridon Xyndas, Domenikos Padovanis, Dionissios Rodotheatos, Alexander Grek, Napoleon Lambelet, Andreas Seiler, as well as women composers from Ionian Islands are exhibited in this section.

Samara is known for the production of aerospace launch vehicles, satellites and various space services, engines and cables, aircraft and rolled aluminum, block-module power stations ; refining, chemical and cryogenic products ; gas-pumping units ; bearings of different sizes, drilling bits ; automated electrical equipment ; airfield equipment ; truck-mounted cranes ; construction materials ; chocolates made by the Russia Chocolate Factory ; Rodnik vodka ; Vektor vodka ; Zhiguli beer ; food processing and light industrial products.

Members of this rocket family were designed by the TsSKB design bureau and constructed at the Progress Factory in Samara, Russia.

Black Square, the fourth version of his magnum opus painted in the 1920s was discovered in 1993 in Samara and purchased by Inkombank for $ 250, 000.

Image: VAZ-21093-20. jpg | Lada Samara

Production started with the VAZ-21083 Sputnik 3-door hatchback ; the series was later renamed Samara.

The Samara engine was mostly designed and produced in-house, had a new single overhead cam design and was driven by a more modern rubber belt.

The same year, the front sides and radiator grille were restyled on the whole Samara range.

These models are basically based on Samara technology with a new body and fuel injection engines as standard features, though carburated versions have also been available up until 2001.

Though the original Lada, and as of the early part of the new millennium, the Samara, have now been withdrawn, the Lada 110 and the Niva are still sold in certain Western European markets, as are the more modern models.

The restyled Sputnik range was renamed Samara, but the Niva and the Oka retained their names.

By 2000s ( decade ), the VAZ designation was dropped from market names in favour of Lada and simplified export naming conventions were adopted, so VAZ-2104 effectively became Lada 2104, VAZ-2110 became Lada 110, VAZ-2114 became Lada Samara hatchback or Lada 114 and so on, though model indices continue to be used in both technical and marketing materials.

Irrigated agriculture spread southwards from the Zagros foothills with the Samara and Hadji Muhammed culture, from about 5, 000 BCE.

It appears in the Elshan or Yelshanka or Samara culture on the Volga in Russia c. 7000 BCE, and from there spread via the Dnieper-Donets culture to the Narva culture of the Eastern Baltic.

The Bolsheviks won a majority in the Soviets of Briansk, Samara, Saratov, Tsaritsyn, Minsk, Kiev, Tashkent, and other cities.

The Lada Samara was partly developed by Porsche in 1984.

* Samara Metro – 1 line, 9 stations, 10. 3 km

* October 16 – WWII: The Soviet Union government moves to Kuibyshev ( modern Samara ), but Joseph Stalin remains in Moscow.

* The cities of Voronezh, Samara, and Tyumen in Russia are founded.

Claimed trade dress in the product design -- as opposed to product packaging -- context can no longer be “ inherently distinctive ”; it must acquire distinctiveness through “ secondary meaning .” Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Samara Brothers, Inc., 529 U. S. 205, 120 S. Ct. 1339, 146 L. Ed.