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4 unusual facts about Valmiera


Aldis Kļaviņš

Aldis Kļaviņš (April 30, 1975 in Valmiera - August 1, 2000 in Germany) was a Latvian slalom canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the early 2000s.

Elīna Ringa

In 2000, in Valmiera (a large town in the Vidzeme of Latvia), she vaulted to 3.72 , setting a new record there as well as improving upon her personal best.

Her last national record outdoor was 3.72 m, set in 2000 in Valmiera and indoor - 3,75 m, set in 2001 in Riga.

Vasily Shibanov

For a source Tolstoy used the fragment of Nikolay Karamzin’s History of the Russian State relating how "…Kurbsky by night clandestinely left his home, climbed over the city wall, found two of the horses his loyal servant prepared for him and safely reached Volmar, then under the Lithuanians".


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Ramata

Ramata parish, an administrative unit of the Valmiera District, Latvia


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