Samara Regional Cardiac Center, Volga Federal District
Situated on the Volga River – a vital commercial thoroughfare for many centuries – Samara is Russia’s sixth-largest city. During the Soviet Era, Samara was a closed city. Today it is an important social, political, economic, industrial, and cultural center with a metropolitan population of over three million.
Self-sustaining pediatric site: our second
Area served: 401,000 square miles
Population served: 30 million
Beginning of collaboration: 2003
Self-sustainability reached: 2009
Size of first team trained: 50
Children saved to date: 4,700+
In 2003, Heart to Heart set out into the heartland of Russia. Our partner site in Samara was our first pediatric site after St. Petersburg. With our start in Samara, we announced Heart to Heart’s new goal: to give all children in all regions of Russia access to life-saving heart care. In 2009 this site became self-sustaining, and has now been serving children in the Volga region for over a decade.