Tolyatti

Tolyatti (), kent in as Togliatti an aw, is a ceety in Samara Oblast, Roushie. Population:  It is the lairgest ceety in Roushie which daes no serve as an admeenistrative centre o a federal subject.

History
It wis foondit in 1737 as a fortress cried Stavropol () bi the Roushie statesman Vasily Tatishchev. Informally it wis aften referred as Stavropol-on-Volga (, Stavropol-na-Volge) tae distinguish frae Stavropol, a lairge ceety in soothwast Roushie.

The construction o the Kuybyshev Dam an Hydroelectric Station on the Volga River in the 1950s creatit the Kuybyshev Reservoir, which covered the existin location o the ceety, an it wis completely rebuilt on a new steid. In 1964, the ceety wis renamit Tolyatti (efter Palmiro Togliatti, the langest-servin secretary o the Italian Communist Pairty).

Admeenistrative an municipal status
Tolyatti serves as the admeenistrative center o Stavropolsky Destrict, awtho it is no admeenistratively a pairt o it. Admeenistratively, alang wi twa rural localities, it is incorporatit as the ceety o oblast significance o Tolyatti—an admeenistrative unit wi the status equal tae that o the destricts.Charter of Samara Oblast Municipally, the ceety o oblast significance o Tolyatti is incorporatit as Tolyatti Urban Okrug.Law #189-GD

Ceety diveesions

Thare are three destricts in the ceety:
Avtozavodsky (), cried Novy Gorod (lit. New Ceety) an aw, is the maist modren; it wis designed tae host the wirkers o the ceety's AvtoVAZ factory, hame o the Lada caur;
Tsentralny (), cried Stary Gorod (lit. Auld Ceety) an aw, hame o the ceety govrenment an industrial center;
Komsomolsky (), the auldest destrict, biggit tae hoose Hydroelectrical Plant builders.

Economy
The ceety's main claim tae fame haes been automobile manufacturin bi AvtoVAZ's Lada (Zhiguli) caur plants, employin some 110,000 fowk: in cooperation wi Italy's Fiat syne 1970 an wi General Motors syne 2001.

Ither industries hae muivit intae Tolyatti acause it is close tae abundant supplees o electricity an watter. Petrochemicals are well representit in the ceety. Amang the significant enterprises based thare are "TogliattiAzot" (Roushie's biggest ammonia manufacturer) an "KuybyshevAzot" (a nitrogen fertilizer producer). Ither industries include biggin materials production, ship repair an electrical equipment an electronics.

Creeme
October 2007 bomb attack

Durin the fore-nuin rush oor o 31 October 2007, a bomb explodit on a passenger bus in the ceety, killin at least aicht fowk an injurin aboot 50 in wha Irina Doroshenko, a spokeswumman for the investigative wing o the local prosecutor’s office, said coud be a terrorist attack.Bomb on Russian Bus Kills at Least 8, Michael Schwirtz, New York Times, 1 November 2007. At the beginnin o the investigation, it wis believit tae be the wirk o terrorists frae the North Caucasus.8 dead in Russian terror blast , Russia Today, 31 October 2007. Early reports indicatit possible involvement o Chechen terrorist Doku Umarov.Bus blast suspect identified: police , Russia Today, 02 November 2007. Housomeivver, the offeecials later namit a 21-year-auld Evgeny Vakhrushev, who dee'd in the blast an aw, as the anerlie person tae be responsible for the tragedy.Togliatti bus bomber named, Russia Today, 03 November 2007.

Organizit creeme
The ceety haes a reputation for gang violence atween groups vyin for control o the caur business an aw.Eight killed in Russia bus blast BBC, 31 October 2007.Криминальная история Тольятти Crime history of Tolyatti.

Violent creemes
The ceety haes witnessed a mafia killin spree - thare hae been 550 commissioned killins in Togliatti ower 1998-2004, five o thae murthert wur journalists.Russian journalism comes under fire Paul Jenkins, BBC, 2 July 2004.

Three chief airchitects o Togliatti wur victims o violent creemes: Valery Lopatin wis shot tae daith on 7 Julie 2004, Mikhail Syardin an Aleksander Kiryakov war an aa injured in violent attacks.В Тольятти новый главный архитектор  Togliatti has a new chief architect, TLT.ru, 10 April 2009. 

A umwhile ceety mayor (1994–2000), Sergey Zhilkin (), wis murdered on 15 November 2008.

On 13 December 2008, Anatoly Stepanov, a vice-speaker o Duma o Samara Oblast, a umwhile heid o admeenistration at the Tsentralny destrict o Togliatti in 1991-1997 an Togliatti mayor candidate in 2004, wis attacked on a street in Togliatti (his hametoun) an left wi serious heid injuries. He dee'd in a hospital on 24 Februar 2009.Загадки убийства Степанова Mysteries in assassination of Stepanov, TLTgorod.ru. 

Corruption
The ceety's mayor in 2000-2007, Nikolay Utkin (), wis sentencit tae seiven years in preeson on corruption charges.Togliatti Mayor Suspected of Extorting 4-Storey House  Pavel Sedakov, Kommersant, 17 August 2007.Mayoral Elections Criticized After Arrest  Natalya Krainova, The St. Petersburg Times, 2 March 2010.

Local govrenment

Mayor Anatoly Pushkov wis electit in 2008.

Internaitional relations

Twin touns an sister ceeties
Tolyatti is twinned wi:
  Kazanlak, BulgarieРусия – Толиати  Official site of Kazanlak 
 Wolfsburg, GermanyTogliatti - Russland Official site of Wolfsburg 
 Flint, Michigan, Unitit States
 Luoyang, Cheenae
 Piacenza, ItalyDecisione della Giunta comunale di Piacenza del 14 luglio 2009  

Pairtner ceeties
 Colmar, Fraunce
 Nagykanizsa, Hungary

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Sources

Freemit airtins

Offeecial wabsteid o Tolyatti 


Category:Populatit places on the Volga