title: Timeline of Samara
text: # Timeline of Samara
  
  The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Samara, Russia.
  
  ## Prior to 20th century
  
  Part of a series on the :
  
  History of Russia :
  
  PeriodsPrehistory  • Antiquity  • Early Slavs
  
  Rus' people pre-9th century     Rus' Khaganate     Arthania     Garðaríki
  
  879–1240: Ancient Rus'
  
  Rurik • Baptism of Rus' • Russkaya Pravda
  
  Novgorod Land 882–1136 Principality of Polotsk 987–1397 Principality of Chernigov 988–1402 Rostov-Suzdal 1093–1157     full list...
  
  1240–1480: Feudal Rus'
  
  Council of Liubech • Council of Uvetichi • Mongol conquest • Battle of Kulikovo
  
  Novgorod Republic 1136–1478 Vladimir-Suzdal 1157–1331 Grand Duchy of Moscow 1263–1547     full list...
  
  1480–1917: Tsarist Russia
  
  Great Stand on the Ugra River • Time of Troubles • Zemsky Sobor • Treaty of Nystad • Petrovian reforms • 1812 Patriotic War • Decembrist Revolt • Emancipation reform • Russo-Japanese War • 1905 Revolution • October Manifesto • Second Patriotic War
  
  Tsardom of Russia 1547–1721 Russian Empire 1721–1917      Russian America 1799–1867      Grand Duchy of Finland 1809–1917      Congress Poland 1867–1915      Russian Manchuria 1900–1905      Uryankhay Krai 1914–1921
  
  1917–1923: Russian Revolution
  
  February Revolution • Provisional Government • Dvoyevlastiye • July Days • Kornilov affair • Directorate • Constituent Assembly (election) • Bolshevik Coup • Civil War • White Guard • Red Army • Soviet-Polish War • Priamurye Govt. • War Communism • USSR • Emigrants
  
  Russian Republic 1917–1918      General Secretariat of Ukraine 1917–1918 Russian SFSR 1917–1922      Ukrainian SSR 1919–1922      Byelorussian SSR 1920–1922      Transcaucasian SFSR 1922–1922 Russian State 1918–1920      Provisional Priamurye Govt. 1921–1923     full list...
  
  1923–1991: Soviet Era
  
  NEP • Cultural revolution • Korenization • Stalinism • Collectivization • Industrialization • GULAG • Great Purge • Great Patriotic War • Cold War • Warsaw Pact • Comecon • Crimea transfer • Era of Stagnation • Afghan War • Perestroika • Chernobyl disaster • Karabakh War • Parade of sovereignties (War of Laws)
  
  Soviet Union 1922–1991      Russian SFSR 1922–1991      Karelo-Finnish SSR1940–1956         full list... Tannu Tuva1921–1944
  
  since 1991: Modern Russia
  
  August Coup • Belavezha Accords • Alma-Ata Protocol • USSR dissolution • CIS • "Near abroad" • Constitutional crisis • Privatization • CSTO • Chechen wars (1st • 2nd) • Oligarchy • Putinism • Five-Days War • Presidential terms amendments • Eurasian Economic Union • Annexation of Crimea • War in Donbas • 2020 amendments • Invasion of Ukraine (Prelude • Mass emigration • Debt default • Sanctions • Mobilization • 2022 annexation)
  
  Russian Federation 1991–present      Republic of Tatarstan 1994–present      Chechen Republic 2000–present      Republic of Crimea 2014–present      Donetsk People's Republic 2022–present      Luhansk People's Republic 2022–present      Kherson Oblast 2022–present      Zaporizhzhia Oblast 2022–present         full list...
  
  ^A Not internationally recognized. ^B Not fully controlled. :
  
  Timeline860–1721 • 1721–1796 • 1796–1855 1855–1894 • 1894–1917 • 1917–1927 1927–1953 • 1953–1964 • 1964–1982 1982–1991 • 1991–present :
  
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  * 1586 - Fortress established.
  * 1685 - Cathedral built.
  * 1824 - September: Tsar Alexander I visits town.
  * 1850
     * Samara government established.
     * Iversky Monastery [ru] founded.
  * 1851 - Strukovsky Garden opens.
  * 1871 - Vasily Bureya [ru] becomes mayor.
  * 1881 - Zhigulevsky Brewery [ru] built.
  * 1882 - Society of Doctors established.
  * 1883 - Population: 63,479.
  * 1894 - Cathedral of Christ the Savior (Samara) [ru] built.
  * 1897 - Population: 91,672.
  
  ## 20th century
  
  * 1913 - Population: 144,000.
  * 1928 - City becomes part of the Middle Volga Oblast.
  * 1932 - Botanical Garden State University established.
  * 1935
     * Samara renamed "Kuybyshev" (after Valerian Kuybyshev).
     * Cathedral of Christ the Savior demolished.
  * 1941 - National government relocated to Kuybyshev from Moscow.
  * 1942 - Football Club Krylia Sovetov Samara formed.
  * 1943 - National government relocated from Kuybyshev back to Moscow.
  * 1957 - Metallurg Stadium opens.
  * 1965 - Population: 948,000.
  * 1985 - Population: 1,257,000.
  * 1987 - Kuybyshev Metro begins operating; Kirovskaya (Samara Metro) and Yungorodok (Samara Metro) open.
  * 1989 - Samara State University founded.
  * 1991 - Konstantin Titov becomes governor of the Samara Oblast.
  * 1992 - Sovetskaya (Samara Metro) opens.
  * 1993
     * Samara State Medical University active.
     * Gagarinskaya (Samara Metro) and Sportivnaya (Samara Metro) open.
  * 1997 - George Limansky [ru] becomes mayor.
  * 1999 - Samara Mosque built.
  * 2000 - City becomes part of the Volga Federal District.
  
  ## 21st century
  
  * 2002 - Moskovskaya (Samara Metro) opens.
  * 2007
     * Rossiyskaya (Samara Metro) opens.
     * Vladimir Artyakov [ru] becomes governor of the Samara Oblast.
  * 2010 - Population: 1,164,896.
  * 2015 - Alabinskaya (Samara Metro) opens.
  