There are 10 towns in the region:
• Samara - population is 1.2 mln persons
• Toliatti - population is 708,000 persons
• Sizran - population is 177,000 persons
• Novokuibishevsk - population is 115,000 persons
• Tchapaevsk - population is 87,000 persons

The region has a convenient geographical position: a large railway junction, an international airport, a river station, developed agriculture, rich resources... The region supplies more than 3% of the whole industrial output, and it occupies the 5th place among all the Russian regions

In 1850 the Samara province was promoted to the status of a separate administrative unit. It was popular all over Russia as a major center of wheat trade and agricultural production. Outstanding figures of national and foreign culture worked wonders here, they were: Alexey Tolstoy, Korolenko, Garin-Mikhaylovsky, Gorky, Repin, Gasek and many others. Dramatic developments that struck Russia in the first decades of the 20th century, did not miss the Samara land. Three revolutions, the First World War and civil war deeply engraved on the history of the land. As it was usual at that time, the city Samara was named after Kuibyshev, and the region was renamed accordingly. In its present borders the Region has existed since December, 1936. It became one of the nation's biggest industrial centers during the Second World War as a result of evacuation of a number of engineering and aircraft works to here from the western regions. And after most of the government offices and diplomatic corps had moved to Samara later in 1941 the city was rightfully called the capital of the rear. In the post-war period the Region continued to build up its economic potential developing the oil, aerospace engineering, hydro-energy and motor-car industries. Nowadays the Samara Region is one of the major contributors to the industrial might of this country along with Moscow, Saint-Petersburg and the Ural. In 1990 the historical name was reverted to the city and the region - Samara and the Samara Region.