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Tolyatti (Толья́тти) is a city in Samara Oblast, Russia. It was founded in 1737 as Stavropol-na-Volge (Ста́врополь). In the 1950s it fell into the flooding zone of the Kuybyshev dam on the Volga river and was completely rebuilt on a new site.
In 1964, the city was renamed Tolyatti (after Palmiro Togliatti, Italian communist leader). As of 2002, it had a population of 701,900. The city is famous mainly for the automobile production plants VAZ (since 1971, in cooperation with the Fiat motor company at that time).
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