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unusual facts about Kuybyshev


Henryk Ehrlich

However, on 4 December 1941, Erlich, together with Victor Alter were once again arrested by the NKVD in Kuybyshev.


Sverker Åström

From 1940 to 1943 he served at the Swedish mission to the Soviet Union, first in Moscow and then in Kuybyshev.

Tambov Oblast

Tambov Oblast was finally created from oblasts of Voronezh and Kuybyshev in 27 September 1937.

Teodor Parnicki

In 1944 he moved to Mexico City, where he assumed the same post he had earlier in Kuybyshev.

Valerian Kuybyshev

The city of Samara (the administrative city of the Samara Oblast, Russia), the town of Bolgar (in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia), and the town of Haghartsin, Armenia were all renamed Kuybyshev during the period between 1935 and 1991.

In 1920 Kuybyshev was elected a member of Presidium of the Red International of Trade Unions, which charged him with the implementation of the GOELRO plan.


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