Editing Samara (section)

==Etymology==
* Current name: Samara, {{lang-rus|Самара|p=sɐˈmarə}}), {{IPAc-en|s|@|'|m|a:r|@}} {{respell|sə|MAR|ə}};<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/samara | title=Definition of SAMARA }}</ref>
* Former name: Kuybyshev, {{lang|ru|Куйбышев}}; {{IPA|ru|ˈkujbɨʂɨf|IPA}}

Samara is named after the [[Samara (Volga)|Samara River]], which likely meant "summer water" (signifying that it froze in winter) in the [[Indo-Iranian languages|Indo-Iranian language]] which was spoken there around the third millennium BC.<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite web|access-date = 2015-12-11|title = Топография крепости Самара 1586-1706 гг., этимология и предшествующие упоминания топонима в письменных источниках (Topography of the Samara fortress, etymology and preceding mentioning of the toponim in the written sources)|url = https://www.academia.edu/18155990|publisher = www.academia.edu}}</ref> The Samara city gives its name to the [[Samara culture]], a [[Neolithic]] culture of the fifth millennium BC, and the [[Kurgan hypothesis]] associates the region with the [[urheimat|original homeland (urheimat)]] of the [[Proto-Indo-European language]].<ref>Balter, Michael (13 February 2015). "Mysterious Indo-European homeland may have been in the steppes of Ukraine and Russia". Science. doi:10.1126/science.aaa7858. Retrieved 17 February 2015.</ref>

During Soviet times, the city of Samara was renamed to '''Kuybyshev''' in 1935 in honor of the Russian Bolshevik, [[Valerian Kuybyshev]]. The city reverted to its historical name of Samara on 25 January 1991 where it remains to this day.