A geography question

[missa-gorightry.livejournal.com]

A relative of a friend of mine wrote to me that she is adopting a baby from a place called "Kubyshev" but cannot find it on any map. I looked around yandex for a while, and all I can find is Куйбышев, which sometimes is followed by (Самара). Was Куйбышев the Soviet-era name for Самара?

Thanks in advance :)

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[owwwl.livejournal.com]

exactly! Самара = Куйбышев

[missa-gorightry.livejournal.com]

Спасибо! :D

[yers.livejournal.com]

Also, Soviet Калинин is the historical and modern Тверь.

Anyone remember more of those?

[yers.livejournal.com]

Actually, hang on.
There does seem to be a place called Кубышев, and it's something entirely different - a town near Novosibirsk.

[laier.livejournal.com]

Old - New
Ленинград - Санкт-Петербург
Сталинград - Волгоград
Орджоникидзе - Владикавказ
Свердловск - Екатеринбург
Брежнев - Набережные Челны
Ворошиловград - Луганск
Горький - Нижний Новгород

and much more: http://www.mark-itt.ru/Collection/Russia/rename.html

[missa-gorightry.livejournal.com]

Is there any website with a map?

[kart.livejournal.com]

Yes. There is also a small village in Crimea named Куйбышев. In fact there are probably dozens of them scattered around the former USSR. However, the _BIG_ Куйбышев is Самара.

More changed names: Soviet -> New (or new-old)....

Краснококшайск -> Йошкар-Ола
Киров -> Вятка
Загорск -> Сергиев Посад
Чкалов -> Оренвург
Орджоникидзе(ორჯონიკიძე) -> Владикавкас

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

Оренбург, Владикавказ (just a minor correction.)
I would also add Андропов -> Рыбинск, though the late Secretary General's name was put on this ancient city only for a couple of years.
And if we look broader, not only on Russia's map but also on the former Union's, we find that Душанбе was once Сталинабад, Bishkek was once Фрунзе, and so on.

[yers.livejournal.com]

The one I'm talking about is called Кубышев — no typo here.

[gvadelupa.livejournal.com]

город Киров в Вятку так не переименовали :)

[logodaedaly.livejournal.com]

Although it hasn't gone back like other towns, there's also Krasnodar, which used to be Ekaterinodar.

[shiro-ki.livejournal.com]

it's my native city, regional centre of Middle Volga, it was Kuibishev from 1935 (the death of the revolutionary) till 1991, now and before 1935 - Samara

today looking to the face of old driver I've found myself calling it Kuibishev and got a fright :)

[jerom.livejournal.com]

http://maps.yandex.ru/map.xml?mapID=5&size=1&scale=6&mapX=5590000&mapY=6574500&act=5&mapWidth=100000