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unusual facts about Ostrovsky


Mor Metro-West High School

The high school MOR Metro-West was established in 1991, in the city of Ra'annana, after 30 years in which the only high school in Ra'annana was "Ostrovsky".


Alla Tarasova

She appeared to mixed reviews as Katerina in the screen version of Ostrovsky's The Storm (1934) and as Catherine I in the movie Peter the Great (1937).

Arkady Ostrovsky

In 2009, a 1976 video of singer Eduard Khil singing Ostrovsky's vocalise I am very glad, because I’m finally going home (Я очень рад, ведь я, наконец, возвращаюсь домой) was uploaded to YouTube and quickly became an Internet meme known as "Trololololololololololo."

Baruch Ostrovsky

Contemporaneously with his educational work, Ostrovsky was active in the Zionist Movement's labor organization, Poale Zion, with the leaders David Ben-Gurion, Ber Borochov and Yitzhak Ben-Zvi.

Denise Djokic

She has collaborated with conductors Andrew Litton, Geoffrey Moull, Grant Llewellyn, Yannick Nezet-Seguin, Bernhard Gueller, Kazuyoshi Akiyama, Avi Ostrovsky, and Kenneth Schermerhorn, among others.

It's a Family Affair-We'll Settle It Ourselves

Two weeks later it was staged by Maly Theatre in Moscow, Ostrovsky and the troupe (with Prov Sadovsky as Podkhalyuzin, making a forfeit of reproducing by gesture all those details cut out by the author) were given long ovation and several hundred people followed Ostrovsky and his friends to his house.

Nikolai Ostrovsky

In Moscow during the Communist period the Ostrovsky Museum and the Ostrovsky Humanitarian centre were built.

In December 1927 Ostrovsky began a correspondence course at the Sverdlov Communist University in Moscow that he completed it in June 1929.

Utroya River

The drainage basin of the Utroya includes areas in the northeastern Latvia, as well as almost whole Pytalkovsky District, the western part of Ostrovsky District, as well as minor areas in the western part of Krasnogorodsky District of Pskov Oblast in Russia.


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