Samara

Samara, a town of European Russia, stands on the left bank of the Volga, at the influx of the Samara, and on the railway from Moscow (656 miles to WNW.) to Orenburg (261 miles to SE.). One of the principal river ports on the Volga, it carries on a large trade in corn, salt, tallow, timber, &c.; it has also tanneries, tobacco-factories, soap-boiling-works, and tile-works. It is the seat of a bishop. Several hundred consumptive patients resort every year to the Koummiss (q.v.) establishments here. Pop. (1869) 34,500; (1886) 75,478; (1897) 91,672.—The government has an area of 58,302 sq. m. and a pop. of 2,763,478, including 100,000 Germans living in agricultural colonies.