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Tolyatti or Togliatti (Толья́тти, tɘlʲ'jati) is a city in Samara Oblast, Russia. It is the administrative center of Stavropolsky District. Population: 718,030 (2007 est.); . It is the largest city in Russia which does not serve as an administrative center of a federal subject.
It was founded in 1737 as a fortress called Stavropol-na-Volge (Ста́врополь-на-Во́лге) by the Russian politician Vasily Tatishchev. During the construction of Volga Hydroelectrical Plant in the 1950s, the old settlement 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, an Italian communist leader, who died while on holiday in the Soviet Union).
There are several districts in the city:







