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  • the Russian government evacuated to Samara, which was called Kuybyshev in Soviet times.

    The Guardian World News Rowan Moore 2010

  • Kuybyshev, named in the 1930s for a leader of the October Revolution, was one of the hundreds of former Soviet cities and towns that had resumed their old, Czarist names during the Soviet collapse of the early 1990s.

    Countdown Douglass, Keith 1994

  • Kuybyshev is a magnificent city, and an important port on the Volga.

    Countdown Douglass, Keith 1994

  • A secret political bureau of seven was formed; it comprised all the members of the official Politbureau except me, and included also Kuybyshev, the present chairman of the Supreme Economic Council.

    My Life Trotsky, Leon 1930

  • Kuybyshev, Yaroslavsky, Bubnov, and many of the other current pillars of Stalinism were with him.

    My Life Trotsky, Leon 1930

  • The riverboat, called the Bulgaria, had set out with 188 people on board for a cruise in the Kuybyshev Reservoir, a reach of the upper Volga that is dammed and forms a broad lake, according to state television.

    NYT > Home Page By ANDREW E. KRAMER 2011

  • 3 Kuybyshev Street: Kuybyshev Street, named after the Bolshevik revolutionary and Politburo member Valeriyan Kuybyshev, was later renamed Ilinka.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • 3 Kuybyshev Street: Kuybyshev Street, named after the Bolshevik revolutionary and Politburo member Valeriyan Kuybyshev, was later renamed Ilinka.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • 3 Kuybyshev Street: Kuybyshev Street, named after the Bolshevik revolutionary and Politburo member Valeriyan Kuybyshev, was later renamed Ilinka.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • 3 Kuybyshev Street: Kuybyshev Street, named after the Bolshevik revolutionary and Politburo member Valeriyan Kuybyshev, was later renamed Ilinka.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

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