What was the city of Samara named from 1935 to 1991?

Between January 27 1935 to January 25 1991 the city of Samara in Russia was called Kuybyshev in honour of the Soviet state and party figure V. Kuybyshev. He was a revolutionary who lived between 1888 and 1935. He was active in Samara, from 1917 leading the local soviet. He was the chair of the revolutionary committee of Samara province during the Civil War.

The present day name of Samara originates with the Neolithic Samara culture of the 5th millennium BCE. Although not much is known about this culture, they made pottery vessels, had horses and buried them together with other animals under their graves. The graves were made of earth mounds and some had stone cairns on top.

The port of Samara on the Volga was marked on Italian maps in the 14th century. The accepted beginning of Samara is the fort which was built in 1586 on the confluence of the Volga and Samara rivers and is thus also known as Samara-on-the-Volga.