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Volgograd through the eyes of Alena Skachkova (VIM, RANEPA)

07.04.2021

Volgograd through the eyes of Alena Skachkova (VIM, RANEPA)

We will now continue to introduce to our dear audience in Volgograd and Cologne the participants of the Russian-German project "Nostalgia Tourist". Today on air is Alena Skachkova, a second-year student of the Economic Department of Volgograd Institute of Management – RANEPA branch.

Volgograd and Cologne through the eyes of youth: a new project by the partner-cities

19.03.2021

Volgograd and Cologne through the eyes of youth: a new project by the partner-cities

After a long break, the year 2020/21 has once again been designated as the Year of Germany in Russia – an especially promising initiative for Volgograd, which has not one, but two partner-cities in the FRG: Chemnitz and Cologne. With the first of them, it is on the level of school exchanges that the most active cooperation is done. In the Cologne case, though, it is college and university students who take the lead. Most fittingly, they will become key participants of the new online project dedicated to the two partner-cities – slightly less lively (due to the pandemic), but just as lovely as ever.

The Indian Ambassador praised the Volgograd region and promised to assist in the development of twinning relations

18.03.2021

The Indian Ambassador praised the Volgograd region and promised to assist in the development of twinning relations

In the end of February 2021, the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Republic of India in Russia, His Excellence Venkatesh Varma, visited the Volgograd region. Why did our region spark the interest of the eminent guest, and what might the results of it be for Volgograd?

Sister-cities exhibition has opened in Volgograd Central Park

16.03.2021

Sister-cities exhibition has opened in Volgograd Central Park

When to visit Turin for a Chocolate Festival? What to see in Ostrava? What is Coventry famous for? Now, we can find it out – with absolutely no regard to the COVID-19 and the economic crisis!

What to do in March and April? A few ideas from the US and Russian cities

11.03.2021

What to do in March and April? A few ideas from the US and Russian cities

On the 9^th of March, yet another and already traditional monthly round table was held – dedicated to the Russia-US cooperation and organized by the Sister Cities International. Its participants were treated to two new presentations about the best collaboration practices, a report on the preparation of the Forum of University Presidents and several suggestions about new projects, among which there were the first steps towards the long-awaited "Great Rivers" Project.

Silver-Age volunteers are helping Volgograd children become A-students

09.03.2021

Silver-Age volunteers are helping Volgograd children become A-students

In January, a project "Back to A and B" (Opiat' chetyre i pyat') was put in action in Volgograd, which is all about intergenerational cooperation. Within its frame, silver-age volunteers are helping children from large families learn and revise difficult topics from various school subjects. In 2020, this project won the All-Russian Grant Competition "Young at Heart".

A concert in memory of the Battle of Stalingrad and the Siege of Leningrad was recorded in Ostrava

03.03.2021

A concert in memory of the Battle of Stalingrad and the Siege of Leningrad was recorded in Ostrava

The two civic association that are taking a most active part in the development of the relations between Volgograd and its Czech twin-city Ostrava are the "Ostrava Russian House" and the "Czech-Russian Society". Their founders – the married couple Dr. Karel Šestak and Tamara Galynina, who was in Stalingrad when the Great Patriotic War began in 1942. In the February of 2021, their members recorded an online-concert on the occasion of two important anniversaries – 78 years after the defeat of the Nazi troops by the Soviet Army in the Battle of Stalingrad and 77 years after the full liberation of Leningrad.

An exhibition of children drawings from Volgograd’s Chinese twin-cities has opened in the Gorky Library

01.03.2021

An exhibition of children drawings from Volgograd’s Chinese twin-cities has opened in the Gorky Library

Since the beginning of February, Volgograd Regional Library named after Maxim Gorky is celebrating the birth of the great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin. In this, it is aided by Volgograd Regional Children Art Gallery and not one but two Chinese cities: Chengdu (Sichuan province) and Qujing (Yunnan province), both of them being Volgograd's twin-cities.

“There is a mission we have – to establish cooperation”, the results of the third Russia-US meeting

16.02.2021

“There is a mission we have – to establish cooperation”, the results of the third Russia-US meeting

On February 09, 2021, the third videoconference between the local governments and public organizations was held under the aegis of the Sister Cities International association of the US with the assistance of the Union of Russian Cities.

Komsomolsky Garden will get an open-air transport museum

10.02.2021

Komsomolsky Garden will get an open-air transport museum

If you enter Komsomolsky Garden from the Krasnoznamenskaya Street, you will definitely come across the memorial to an old tram car. In future, it will be joined by a whole transportation museum situated right under the sky.