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7 unusual facts about Sverdlovsk


Albert Filozov

Albert Leonidovich Filozov (born 25 June 1937 in Sverdlovsk) is a Soviet and Russian actor, People's Artist of Russia.

Alexander Kantorov

He began his conducting career at the Sverdlovsk Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra and then became both a fonder and head conductor of both Sverdlovsk and Saint Petersburg Symphony Orchestras.

Igor Malinovsky

Igor Malinovsky was born on the 6th of November 1977 in Sverdlovsk, Russia, into a family with a long musical tradition.

Indians in Russia

From the mid-1950s onwards significant numbers of Indian students began attending educational institutions in Moscow, Leningrad, Sverdlovsk and Kursk .

Jeanne Guillemin

In 1992, Guillemin became part of Meselson's investigation into another Cold War controversy, the 1979 outbreak of anthrax in Sverdlovsk, a closed Soviet city in the Ural Mountains.

Vasily Andrianov

He eventually rose to be the leader of the Communist Party in the city of Sverdlovsk from 1939 until 1946.

Wolf Gorelik

Gorelik was born in Sverdlovsk and became a graduated of Urals Mussorgsky State Conservatoire 30 years later where he studied both conducting under guidance from Mikhail Paverman and violin with Mikhail Zatulovski.


1950 Sverdlovsk air disaster

The Sverdlovsk air disaster of January 5th, 1950 was an airplane crash where all 19 of those on board were killed, including almost the entire national ice hockey team (VVS Moscow) of the Soviet Air Force - 11 players, as well as a team doctor and a masseur.

Anton Bakov

In 1994, Anton Bakov was elected a Serov county deputy of Sverdlovsk Oblast Parliament - Sverdlovsk Oblast Duma and the Chairman of the Duma Legislative Committee.

Butka

Butka, Russia, a rural locality (a selo) in Sverdlovsk Oblast; birthplace of Boris Yeltsin

Chuvashia

One of them was the semifast Sochi-Sverdlovsk-Sochi long distance transit train, halting only at Alatyr, Buinsk, and Kanash.

Igor Britanov

While waiting for his trial in Sverdlovsk in May 1987, Defense Minister Sergei Sokolov resigned and was replaced by Dmitry Yazov; subsequently, the charges against Britanov were dropped.

Inge Görmer

Her last World championship in Sverdlovsk, 1959 ended with a somewhat disappointing 23rd place, without being able to skate her favorite distance, the 3000m.

Ingria in World War II

55,773 Ingrians arrived and were scattered to the regions of Novgorod, Kalinin, Vologda, Sverdlovsk, and elsewhere.

Kamyshlovsky

Kamyshlovsky District, an administrative and municipal district of Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia

Koltsovo

Koltsovo, Yekaterinburg, a former urban-type settlement in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia; now a part of the city of Yekaterinburg

Lev Psakhis

In international tournaments, he has had many fine results, including outright or shared first place at Naleczow 1980, Sarajevo 1981, Cienfuegos 1983, Troon 1984, Sverdlovsk 1984, Szirak 1986, Sarajevo 1986, Sevastopol 1986, Lugano Open 1988, Tel Aviv 1990 (and again in 1999), London MSO 1999 and Andorra 2002.

Paul Butkevich

Paul Butkevich has taken part in approximately 150 movies and plays also outside the borderlines of Latvia, in his most active years it was common to travel twice a week or more to Dushanbe-Kaliningrad-Moskow-Sverdlovsk-Simferopol, he has even been awarded as an artist by Russian Federation.

Pavlik Morozov

The most popular account of the story is as follows: born to poor peasants in Gerasimovka, a small village 350 kilometers north-east of Yekaterinburg (then known as Sverdlovsk), Morozov was a dedicated communist who led the Young Pioneers at his school, and a supporter of Stalin's collectivization of farms.

Sagra

Sagra, Russia, a rural locality (a settlement) in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia

Sergei Yegorov

Sergei Gennadyevich Yegorov (born 1983), Russian footballer with FC Arsenal Tula, FC Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast and FC Baltika Kaliningrad

Ural State Academy of Architecture and Arts

The Sverdlovsk Rock Club founded at the Academy in 1986 was a birthplace for a considerable number of famous Russian rock bands such as Urfin Dzhyus, Chaif, Nautilus Pompilius, Nastya, Trek, Agata Kristi.

Vladik Dzhabarov

Vladik Dzhabarov was a world-class Soviet cyclist from Sverdlovsk.

Vysoky

Vysokaya Mount, a mountain in the Middle Urals in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia

Yury Chaika

After serving in the army, he graduated from Sverdlovsk Institute of Law in 1976 and began work at Irkutsk Oblast Prosecutor's Office where he served as an investigator and a deputy district prosecutor.


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