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Vyacheslav Popov (bobsledder)
Vyacheslav Nikolayevich Popov (russian: Вячеслав Николаевич Попов; born 17 February 1962 in Kuybyshev) is a former Russian football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ... player. References 1962 births Footballers from Samara, Russia Living people Soviet men's footballers PFC Krylia Sovetov Samara players Navbahor Namangan players FC Alga Bishkek players Russian men's footballers FC Ural Yekaterinburg players Russian Premier League players Russian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Hungary {{Russia-footy-defender-1960s-stub Men's association football defenders ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samara, Russia
Samara ( rus, Сама́ра, p=sɐˈmarə), known from 1935 to 1991 as Kuybyshev (; ), is the largest city and administrative centre of Samara Oblast. The city is located at the confluence of the Volga and the Samara rivers, with a population of over 1.14 million residents, up to 1.22 million residents in the urban agglomeration, not including Novokuybyshevsk, which is not conurbated. The city covers an area of , and is the eighth-largest city in Russia and tenth agglomeration, the third-most populous city on the Volga, as well as the Volga Federal District. Formerly a closed city, Samara is now a large and important social, political, economic, industrial, and cultural centre in Russia and hosted the European Union—Russia Summit in May 2007. It has a continental climate characterised by hot summers and cold winters. The life of Samara's citizens has always been intrinsically linked to the Volga River, which has not only served as the main commercial thoroughfare of Russia th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
