Samara Governorate (Russian: Самарская губерния, romanized: Samarskaya guberniya) was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR, located in the Volga Region. It existed from 1850 to 1928; its capital was in Samara.
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Samara-Passazhirskaya is a major railway station of the Kuybyshev Railway in Samara, Russia.
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The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour was the main cathedral of the Samara diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church, located in Samara. Built between 1869 and 1894 in the neo-Byzantine style, it could accommodate up to 2,500 people. The design, featuring five domes and a high bell tower, combined Byzantine and Russian architectural elements and, according to some experts, influenced subsequent Orthodox church architecture. Construction was funded primarily by local merchants and residents.
Consecrated in 1894, the cathedral served as the diocesan center and burial site for Samara’s bishops until 1928, when it was transferred to the Renovationist movement and its functions were relocated. In 1930, the cathedral was closed. Plans to convert it into a cultural center were rejected, and it was dismantled—partly using explosives—for building materials. By mid-1932, the cathedral was demolished. A house of culture, now the Samara Opera and Ballet Theatre, was later built on the site.
In the early 21st century, proposals to reconstruct the cathedral were raised by local church and political figures but did not gain support from authorities or architectural experts.
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Kuybyshev Square is a public square in Samara, Russia, located in the city's historic center between Chapaevskaya, Vilonovska, Galaktionovskaya, and Krasnoarmeyskaya streets in Leninsky District. Kuybyshev Square is one of the largest city squares in the world at fifteen hectares, and is the second largest public square in Russia and in Europe. The Samara State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre and public gardens covering seven hectares are located on the square.
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The Sacred Heart Church is a Catholic church, of neogothic style located in the historic center of the city of Samara, Russia.
In 1902 it was decided to expand and build a church of red brick neo-Gothic style. At a cost of 80 thousand rubles, the project was entrusted to the Polish architect Bogdanovich, who built the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Moscow. Under the patronage of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, it was consecrated in February 1906. Its two towers of 47 m in height made it for a long time the tallest building in the city.
The parish was disbanded by the Soviet authorities in the 1920s. Later, they closed the church, and it was vandalised. In 1941, a regional museum was installed there.
In 1991, the Catholic community regained the church for worship.
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Stalin's bunker is an air raid shelter located near Samara State University of Culture in Samara, Russia. It is a subterranean bunker complex constructed between February and October 1942. It was the alternative Supreme High Command General Headquarters of the Soviet Armed Forces intended for Joseph Stalin during World War II. Stalin's Bunker is located 37 metres beneath the Kuybyshev CPSU oblast Committee building, 100 metres south-east of the Samara Academy Theater. Stalin's Bunker was declassified in 1990. Now the civil defence museum occupies the former air raid shelter. Air-raid shelters for the Soviet High Command were built also in Yaroslavl, Gorky, Kazan, Ulyanovsk, Saratov and Stalingrad.
Administrative divisions
From its foundation until 1918 the governorate was divided into seven uyezds (counties). These were: