Samara was named the city in 1658; At the same time, the Samara nobles, military men and ordinary people were filled with land in the amount of 120 thousand dessiatines. In 1719, Samara, previously considered a city of the Kazan province, was assigned to the Astrakhan province, and in the seventies of the last century, having essentially lost an important city, it was assigned to the Syzran district. In 1781, Samara was renamed a federal city and included in the Simbirsk province. It remained as a federal city until 1851, when, with the establishment of the Samara province, it became a provincial city.
Here, by the way, it would be nice to say a few words about those data that characterize the rapid growth of Samara since it was renamed a provincial city. In 1851, there were 15 thousand inhabitants in Samar, now there are about 80 thousand. In the first decade, starting from 1851, Samara city incomes increased from 21 thousand rubles to 65 thousand rubles, in the second they grew to 184 thousand rubles, in the third they reached 858 thousand rubles, and in the fourth they already exceeded 1 million. At the time of the establishment of the Samara province and the city of Samara was located along the banks of the Volga in a strip from the mouth of the Samarka River for 8 miles in length. There, where is now Trinity Square, at that time the steppe spread out, and the space occupied now by the Strukovsky Garden and adjacent to it was covered with leopards, was called “oak garden” and served as a place for summer walks for the inhabitants of that time. There were no good buildings in the city; its outskirts resembled a village, containing a collection of thatched houses with wattled fences. To get a better understanding of what Samara was like at that time, it is enough to say that at that time there was only one doctor, there were no cab drivers, there were no hotels for travelers and there was no street infrastructure. All this happened forty years ago. Looking at present-day Samara, you will inevitably be amazed at the speed of growth of this city.
Samara's trade was, however, significant in the fifties of the present century; Thus, for example, in 1850, 560 thousand quarters of wheat, 5 thousand quarters of flaxseed and over 50 thousand pounds of lard were taken from the Samara pier. Even then, 40 windmills were operating in Samar, and up to 70 thousand pounds of lard were rendered annually at the lard melting factories.
As for the city itself, over the last 40 years of its existence, it has become completely unrecognizable - to such an extent has it increased in terms of the space it occupies and to that extent has its appearance changed. The reason for the rapid development is quite clear; the wealth of the region in the highest grades of grain and livestock products in itself already puts Samara in extremely favorable conditions for the development of its trade; To this it was necessary to add another important condition—the city’s fortunate position on public transport routes. Names with one
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On the Volga side, on the other - railways, running through a rich and extensive region and connecting it with important trading centers of Rosa, Samara naturally had every chance for rapid development. The attraction of trade goods from a huge region to it is quite natural: in Samar there are always buyers for these goods, thanks to the convenience of distribution routes; In winter, the railway track, and in summer, the waterway serves Samara well, especially if you take into account that the Samara pier is rightly considered convenient throughout the Volga for such goods as bread and bulk products in general.
Samara piers, towing, passenger and linen, are located on the Volga, and on both sides of the Samara River there are piers - at the grain barns and at the salo dump - for loading livestock products. The piers on the Samar River are all the more important because this river opens up before the Volga, and ships wintering in it can load while the Volga is still covered with ice; immediately, after the end of the Volga ice drift, these ships go out first to the Great River and the Samara caravans gain so much time that they arrive in Rybinsk not only earlier than the Simbirsk ones, but even earlier than the Kazan ones, loading only after the end of the ice drift. As a result, large trading houses have a direct choice to procure goods in Samara - the reason why many trading companies keep their agents there and have commissioners among the city's indigenous traders.