The Samara () is a river in Russia and a left-bank tributary of the Volga. It flows into the Volga at the city of Samara. Its largest tributary is the Bolshoy Kinel.Самара (река в Оренбургской и Куйбышевской обл.), Great Soviet Encyclopedia It is long, and its drainage basin covers .«Река Бездна», Russian State Water Registry.
Honours The asteroid 26922 Samara was named on 1 June 2007 to honour the river, which has also given the city of Samara its name.
Samarabatrachus, a temnospondyl from the Lower Triassic (Induan) deposits of Borsky District, Samara Oblast, was named after this river in 2016. This animal is known by a skull of 15.3 cm in length.https://web.archive.org/web/20240122205103/http://paleosamara.ru/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%8B.pdf I V Novikov New Tempospondyl Amphibians from the Basal Triassic of the Obshchii Syrt Highland, Eastern Europe in Paleontological Journal volume 3 page 88-100 2016 doi=10.7868/S0031031X16030065
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