Location of anniversary, fifth Winter Symposium on Chemometrics is Chemometrics isSamara city on the Volga river. It is a large city with more than 1 200 000 inhabitants. You can reach Samara by plane that is arriving at the regional Koromich airport, located 40 minutes from Samara. There are daily flights from Moscow — the flight time is about one hour. Please, click on the map on right side for enlarge. The detailed flights schedule is available on this page.

The night train ride to Samara from Moscow takes about 13 hours and it is a quite comfortable and is a great way to see some of the country. You will arrive at Samara's huge and modern new railway station near the center. The most suitable (and comfortable) train from Moscow to Samara is #10. It departures from Moscow, Kazanskiy train station, every day at 18:50 Moscow time and arrives to Samara on the next day at 11:41am Samara's local time (MSK+01). From Samara to Moscow (#9) it departurtes at 16:10 local time and arrives to Moscow on the next day at 07:31am.

You can find a lot of information about Samara, including cultural life, weather, sightseeing, and more on these sites:

• http://www.languagelink.ru/e/jobs/samara.php
• http://www.russianamericanchamber.org/regions/samara.html

The host organization of the symposium is Samara State Technical University. This is one of the largest universities in Russia with the outstanding academic and industrial potential. The university has the recreation facilities in the Samara suburb area, some 30 minutes from city center by public bus. The attendees will live in this campus in the comfortable single and double rooms. All campus bungalows have big halls for evening discussions. Russian banya (sauna) and cross-country ski will be available. A special building will be used for sessions, meals, and, of course, for the traditional 'Scores and Loadings' meeting, which again will be organized in the old-fashioned, self service Kosroma style.