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4 unusual facts about Vinnytsia


Halizones

Herodotus (4.17, 52) placed the Halizones among the Scythians in the region of modern Vinnytsia Ukraine, while Ephorus, equating them with Amazons, located them near Cyme in Asia Minor.

TIA-MC-1

Developed in Vinnytsia, Ukraine by Extreme-Ukraine company in the mid-1980s under the leadership of V.B. Gerasimov.

Valentyn Rechmedin

After studies at Uman Cooperative Technicum (Уманський кооперативний технікум) he started his career as a journalist in 1934 at Molodyi Bilshovyk (Молодий Бiльшовик) in Vinnytsia.

Yitzkhok Yoel Linetzky

He was raised a Hasidic Jew in Vinnytsia, Podolia (now in Ukraine), but revolted against his violent schoolteachers and cabalist father by aligning himself with the Haskalah, the Jewish Enlightenment.


2009–10 Ukrainian League Cup

Surprisingly the PFL picked Oleksandia's Nika Stadium which is 71 km (~46 mi) or about an hour drive from the city of Komsomolsk and 387 km (~255 mi) from Vinnytsia.

Ilia Ostrogski

Knyaz Ilia Aleksander Konstantynovich Ostrogski or Elias (1510–1539) was the only son of Konstanty Ostrogski from his first marriage with Tatiana Koretska; Bratslav and Vinnytsia starost.

Vinnytsia massacre

The first examinations of the exhumed bodies were made by German, Ukrainian and Russian doctors such as professor Gerhard Schrader of the University of Halle-Wittenberg, docent Doroshenko of Vinnytsia, and professor Malinin of Krasnodar.


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