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7 unusual facts about Chernivtsi


Assassination of Haim Arlosoroff

Born in Chernivtsi, Ukraine in 1911, he was the local Beitar officer.

George Robert Jebb

He was involved with many other engineering projects around the world, such as planning the route of the railway between Lviv and Chernivtsi.

Maximilian Maksakov

Maksimilian Karlovich Maksakov (Максимилиа′н Ка′рлович Макса′ков, also known as Max Maksakov, real name Max Schwartz; 1869, Chernivtsi, Bukovina, Austria-Hungary — March 26, 1936, Moscow, USSR) — was an Austrian/Russian opera singer (dramatic baritone) and music teacher.

Nico Dostal

After participating in World War I, Dostal worked as the theatre Kapellmeister in Innsbruck, St. Pölten, Vienna, Chernivtsi and Salzburg, before moving to Berlin in 1924, where he turned his hand to secular music.

Otto Porsch

He became first director of the botanical garden in Czernowitz (now Chernivtsi, Ukraine) and later professor at the University of Czernowitz (now Chernivtsi University).

SoftServe

The company is headquartered in Lviv, Ukraine and Fort Myers, Florida, while its development offices are located in the Ukrainian cities of Lviv, Dnipropetrovsk, Ivano-Frankivsk, Rivne, Chernivtsi, and Sevastopol.

Yanair

On December 9, 2013, Yanair suspended its flights between Chernivtsi and Kiev, claiming that the flight was unprofitable.


Bucharest North railway station

As of 2009, Gara de Nord served about 200 trains, including domestic trains operated by Căile Ferate Române, Regiotrans and Trans Feroviar calatori as well international trains to Hungary - Budapest, Bulgaria - Sofia, Varna and Burgas, Republic of Moldova - Chișinău, Ukraine - Kiev, Chernivtsi, Austria - Vienna, Turkey - Istanbul, Russia - Moscow and Saratov, Belarus - Minsk and Dnepropetrovsk.

Karl Ernstberger

Their designs for the government building (Landtag) in Chernivtsi (Czernowitz) in Bukowina and for the National Library and Museum in Sofia, Bulgaria obtained awards.

Shaar Hashamayim Yeshiva

Auerbach chose to stay with the yeshiva even after his father, the Admor of Chernowitz-Chmielnik, died and his Hasidim asked Auerbach to take his father's place.


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