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 Welcome to Samara Travel Guide - a detailed online guidebook on sightseeing and shopping, health, transportation, emergency contacts, tipping, staying in touch, museum listings and entertainment in Samara. Comprehensive bar and restaurant guides are also included.
It can be frustrating and time-consuming to research your travel destination. We live and work in Samara and know it like a back of our hand. We are always happy when people come and visit our beautiful home city and want you to have as much information about Samara as possible. That is why we have put together an online Samara Travel Guide full of essential information for your trip.
Samara was officially founded in 1586 when on the bank of the Volga River the construction of the fortress that was to protect the Russian State from the incursion of martial nomadic tribes was started. But in fact, the settlement on the bent of the Volga River had been mentioned in the ancient chronicles since 14th century. During World War II Samara (the city situated not far from Moscow), then named Kuibyshev, was the second capital of USSR. Many famous people worked and lived in Samara. Outstanding Russian writers Lev Tolstoy and Maxim Gorky, painters Ilya Repin, Vasily Surikov and Ivan Aivazovsky, revolutionists Michael Frunze and Vladimir Lenin are among them. Even a French writer Alexander Duma had paid a visit to Samara in 1858. Impressed by the travel he wrote the book "From Paris to Astrakhan" where he gave his description of Samara.
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