Tolyatti

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Tolyatti or Togliatti, known before 1964 as Stavropol, is the second-largest city in Samara Oblast, Russia, after the administrative center, Samara. It is the largest city in Russia which is neither the administrative center of a federal subject, nor the largest city of a subject. The city is best known as the home of Russia's largest car manufacturer AvtoVAZ (Lada). For this reason, Tolyatti is often dubbed "Russia's motor city" or "Russia's Motown" (in reference to Detroit in the United States—the spiritual home of the American automotive industry). It was renamed after Italian communist politician Palmiro Togliatti in 1964, upon his death in the Soviet Union.

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