KUIBYSHEV SQUARE

Kuibyshev square is the biggest square in Europe and the second in the world. It occupies 17,4 hectares. There is the Samara Academic Opera and Ballet House in the square, a monument to Valerian Kuibyshev and a memorial sign dedicated to the parade on November 7, 1941. Before revolution in the 19th century Kuibyshev square was called Sobornaya because of a giant cathedral, one of the biggest in Russia, that was located on its territory. It had been built for 25 years, and in the thirties of the 20th century it was blown up and it took five more years to sort it on bricks.