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4 unusual facts about Parizh


Nağaybäk

Here, they founded a chain of villages named after the battles of Napoleonic Wars, including present-day Parizh, named after the Battle of Paris, Fershampenuaz (after the Battle of Fère-Champenoise), Kassel (after engagements near Kassel in Hesse), Trebiy (after the Battle of Trebbia) etc.

Parizh, Chelyabinsk Oblast

In 2005, an Eiffel Tower 1:5 replica was constructed in Parizh to serve as a cellular network station.

Several other villages named for Russian victories in Napoleonic Wars are located nearby: Fershampenuaz (the administrative center of the district), Leyptsig, Berlin, and others.

It was established as a Nağaybäk Cossack settlement in 1842 and soon after was given its name to honor the Battle of Paris.


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Fershampenuaz

Like several other Ural villages, among them Parizh (Paris) and Berlin, it was named to honor the feats of Cossacks in the war against Napoleon—in this case, a victorious battle of Fère-Champenoise that took place on March 25, 1814.


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