Sister city
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A sister city or a twin town relationship is a form of legal or social agreement between two geographically and politically distinct localities for the purpose of promoting cultural and commercial tie
Fingerposts in Oskarshamn, Sweden, showing the direction from the post to each of the city's twin towns
A sample twinning agreement (between Castellabate, Italy (left) and Blieskastel, Germany (right))
Column dedicated to Paris in Rome, Italy
Dignitaries from Antony, France attended a parade in twin city Lexington, Massachusetts, USA
Volgograd
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Volgograd, formerly Tsaritsyn and Stalingrad, is the administrative centre and largest city of Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The city lies on the western bank of the Volga, covering an area of 859.4 squar
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…1940, known as the Coventry Blitz. First conceived by the then Mayor of Coventry, Alfred Robert Grindlay, culminating in a telegram to the people of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in 1942, the idea emerged as a way of establishing solidarity links between cities in allied countries that went through similar…
Motherland Calls 1984
May 2015 Volgograd img 18 Central station
Dmitry Medvedev in Volgograd Oblast, March 2010 3
May 2015 Volgograd img 13 P Lenina metrotram station