Chapayevsk
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Chapayevsk (Russian: Чапа́евск) is a town in Samara Oblast, Russia, forty kilometers from the city of Samara. The town is located on the right bank of Chapayevskaya River, which is a tributary of the Volga River.
A settlement was founded in the area in 1909 per Nicholas II's decree that a military plant be established there. In 1927, the settlement became the town of Chapayevsk.
2002 population—73,912.
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| Administrative center: Samara Chapayevsk | Kinel | Neftegorsk | Novokuybyshevsk | Oktyabrsk | Otradny | Pokhvistnevo | Syzran | Tolyatti | Zhigulyovsk |
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