Claim: Mark Solonin, born on April 29, 1958 at Kuybyshev, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, is a Russian historian focused on Soviet history who studied at Kuibyshev Aviation Institute—one of Russia’s leading engineering and technical institutions that is currently known as Samara National Research University.
Evidence: Mark Solonin (born May 29, 1958, in Kuybyshev, USSR) is a Russian historian, and author who writes about the history of World War II. 
Mark Semionovich Solonin (Russian: Марк Семёнович Солонин) was born in Kuybyshev, USSR on May 29, 1958.