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5 unusual facts about Ústí nad Labem


ČSD Class E 499.1

Currently the whole series is being systematically withdrawn with last units used in Prague, Olomouc and Ústí nad Labem.

Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis

This same year, occurrence of 16 cases over a period of two years (1963–1965) was reported in Ústí nad Labem.

Sudeten German Party

The history of this party is centered on the cities of Eger (German for present-day Cheb) and Aussig (Ústí nad Labem), it originated and gave the impetus for Austrian National Socialism.

Ústí nad Labem

Modern sports figures born in the city include Milan Hejduk (born 1976), hockey player and former team captain for the Colorado Avalanche; Michal Neuvirth (born 1988), hockey player for the Washington Capitals; and Jiří Jarošík (born 1977), association football player, formerly of Chelsea FC and Celtic FC player, currently of Real Zaragoza.

Among the city's other natives are the illustrator and designer Heinz Edelmann (1934–2009) and the writer Vladimír Páral (born 1932).


Günther Herbig

Born in Ústí nad Labem, Czechoslovakia, Herbig studied conducting at the Franz Liszt Academy in Weimar in 1951 with Hermann Abendroth.

Victoria Tereshchuk

Her first senior World Championship was the 2003 edition, held in Pesaro, Italy, where she finished 27th, and her first senior European Championship came the following month in Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic, where she came in 34th.


see also

Račice

Račice, Czech Republic, a village in Ústí nad Labem Region in the Czech Republic

Vesele

Veselé, a village in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic