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“Kuibyshev” as a book category refers to works about the Soviet-era name for the city of Samara and its region (formerly Kuibyshev Oblast), spanning roughly 1935–1991. It includes histories and memoirs of the city’s role as the USSR’s wartime standby capital and evacuation hub; studies of Soviet industrialization on the Volga, including the aerospace sector, oil refining, and the creation of the Kuibyshev Reservoir; urban and cultural life, architecture, and regional geography; fiction and travel writing set in or evocative of that period; and biographies or political studies of Valerian Kuybyshev, the Bolshevik official after whom the city was named, along with works on Soviet toponymy and place-name changes.

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