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unusual facts about Vasilyevo, Zelenodolsky District, Republic of Tatarstan



Hermann Rorschach

Rorschach graduated in medicine at Zurich in 1909 and at the same time became engaged to Olga Stempelin, a girl from Kazan (in the present-day Republic of Tatarstan, Russia).

Kama River

It starts in the Udmurt Republic, near Kuliga, flowing northwest on 125 miles, turn northeast near Loyno for another 125 miles, then turns south and west in Perm Krai, flowing again through the Udmurt Republic and then through the Republic of Tatarstan, where it meets the Volga.

Sumka River

It origins near Gremyachy Klyuch and falls to the Kuybyshev Reservoir, Volga, forming the western border of Vasilyevo, Tatarstan.

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.

Valery Chkalov

The village of Vasilyevo where Chkalov was born is now the town of Chkalovsk (Nizhny Novgorod Oblast).


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