Peter Vladimirovich Alabin (1824–1896) - Russian statesman and public figure, military writer and journalist, actual state councilor, honorary citizen of Vyatka, Samara and Sofia. He was a participant and chronicler of four wars of his time: the Hungarian campaign of 1849; Danube Campaign of 1853, went through the entire Crimean War, participated in the famous and tragic Inkerman Battle, which turned into a monstrous catastrophe for Russia. In 1877–1878, Alabin ended up in Bulgaria, during the war of liberation with Turkey, where Prince Cherkassky was appointed governor of Sofia (the first in its history after the 500-year Turkish yoke). It was he who, during the time of the Grand Dukes Romanov, presented the Samara banner, sewn by the nuns of the Iveron Monastery, to the Bulgarian people's army. But the main business of his life was Samara. It was under him that it blossomed and became a large Volga city - a real frontier of the Fatherland. Alabin literally built the city with his own hands and was the most famous mayor of Samara.