What is Samara Bend?

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The Samara bend (Russian: Самарская Лука) is a large, backwards-C-shaped bend in the middle Volga River at the confluence of the Samara River (Coordinates: ). It is situated in Samara Oblast, Volga Federal District of Russia.

The Samara River valley offers an easy passage to the Ural River valley, and historically has been a major locus for interchange between eastern European and Central Asian cultures. It is also a classic invasion route. What is now the city of Samara was founded in 1586 as a tsarist defense outpost.

A number of archaeological cultures have been centered here:

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Russian 
Writing system: Cyrillic (Russian variant)  
Official status
Official language of:  Abkhazia (Georgia)
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Volga River (Peка Волга)

Volga in Yaroslavl (autumn morning)


Country | Russia

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Mouth Volga River
Basin countries Russia
Length 594 km
Source elevation  

Avg. discharge approx. 50 m³/s
Basin area 46,500 km²

The Samara (Russian:
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geographic coordinate system enables every location on the earth to be specified by the three coordinates of a spherical coordinate system aligned with the spin axis of the Earth.
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Samara Oblast (Russian: Сама́рская о́бласть, Samarskaya oblast) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast).
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Volga (Privolzhsky) Federal District (Russian: Приво́лжский федера́льный
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Capital
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Mouth Volga River
Basin countries Russia
Length 594 km
Source elevation  

Avg. discharge approx. 50 m³/s
Basin area 46,500 km²

The Samara (Russian:
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Origin Russia
Mouth Caspian Sea
Basin countries Russia, Kazakhstan
Length 2,428 km (1,509 mi)
Source elevation  

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Самар? (Russian)
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The Khvalynsk culture was an Eneolithic (copper age) culture of the first half of the 5th millennium BC, discovered at Khvalynsk on the Volga in Saratov Oblast, Russia. The culture also is termed the Middle Eneolithic or Developed Eneolithic or
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For the Chalcolithic Samarran Culture (ca 5500–4800 BC) identified at the rich site of Tell Sawwan, see Samarra.


The Samara culture
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Poltavka culture, 2700—2100 BC, an early to middle Bronze Age archaeological culture of the middle Volga from about where the Don-Volga canal begins up to the Samara bend, with an easterly extension north of present Kazakhstan along the Samara River valley to somewhat west of
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Potapovka culture, ca. 2500—2000 BC. A Bronze Age culture centered on the Samara bend in the middle Volga region, projecting well east into the Samara River valley.
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Abashevo culture is a later Bronze Age (ca. 17th–16th centuries BC) archaeological culture found in the valleys of the Volga and Kama River north of the Samara bend and into the southern Ural Mountains. It receives its name from a village of Abashevo in Chuvashia.
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Zhiguli may refer to:
  • Zhiguli (dj duo), a forward Ukrainian DJ’s, lo-fi producers.
  • Zhiguli Mountains, a forested mountain range by river Volga in the oblast Samara.

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Battle of Samara Bend or the Battle of Kernek was the first battle between Volga Bulgaria and the Mongols, probably the first major battle the Mongols lost. It took place in autumn 1223, at the southern border of Volga Bulgaria.
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