Тольятти / Tolyatti in 1968

Тольятти и строительство ВАЗа
1968 г.

Togliatti (Tolyatti) and the construction of the
Automoble Plant VAZ
1968

Tolyatti, also known in English as Togliatti, is a city in Samara Oblast, Russia.
Internationally, the city is best known as the home of Russia's largest car manufacturer AvtoVAZ (Lada).

The city was founded in 1737 as a fortress called Stavropol by the Russian statesman Vasily Tatishchev. Informally it was often referred as Stavropol-on-Volga to distinguish it from Stavropol, a large city in southwest Russia.
The construction of the Kuybyshev Dam and Hydroelectric Station on the Volga River in the 1950s created the Kuybyshev Reservoir, which covered the existing location of the city, and it was completely rebuilt on a new site. In 1964, the city was renamed Tolyatti after Palmiro Togliatti, the longest-serving secretary of the Italian Communist Party.

Видео Тольятти / Tolyatti in 1968 канала Nigel Fowler Sutton