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Photo dedicated to Dersu Uzala, Vladimir Arsenjev and Akira Kurosawa!
~Dedicated to Rose~
The last of this series, but now that I have found the sweet spot for these shots, you can expect many more.
I wanted to dedicate this pic to the amazing Savannah. Life stinks for her right now- her first dog died(been there:(), her grandma is suffering from heart failure, and she wants to sell one of her dollies, but doesn't know which. AND, she hates her life and believes it will get worse.So, life stinks for her. She told me she likes Stells, so we went outfise and did a shoot for you Sav. Hope your heart heals soon, hun!
Stella looks like she just got stunned here, don't you guys think?
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Volgograd, formerly Tsaritsyn (1589–1925) and Stalingrad (1925–1961), is the largest city and the administrative centre of Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The city lies on the western bank of the Volga, covering an area of 859.4 square kilometres (331.8 square miles), with a population of slightly over one million residents. Volgograd is the 16th-largest city by population size in Russia, the second-largest city of the Southern Federal District, and the fourth-largest city on the Volga.
The city was founded as the fortress of Tsaritsyn in 1589. By the 19th century, Tsaritsyn had become an important river-port and commercial centre, leading to its rapid population growth. In November 1917, at the start of the Russian Civil War, Tsaritsyn came under Bolshevik control. It fell briefly to the White Army in mid-1919 but returned to Bolshevik control in January 1920. In 1925, the city was renamed Stalingrad in honor of Joseph Stalin, who then ruled the country. During World War II, Axis forces attacked the city, leading to the Battle of Stalingrad, arguably the largest and bloodiest battle in the history of warfare, from which it received the title of Hero City. In 1961, Nikita Khrushchev's administration renamed the city Volgograd as part of de-Stalinization.
Volgograd today is the site of The Motherland Calls, an 85-metre (279 ft) high statue dedicated to the heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad, which is the tallest statue in Europe, as well as the second tallest statue of a woman in the world. The city has many tourist attractions, such as museums, sandy beaches, and a self-propelled floating church. Volgograd was one of the host cities of the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
Tsaritsyn was established in 1555 and was named after the Tsaritsa river. The name of Tsaritsyn was written as Царицынъ, with the hard sign.
When Vladimir Lenin died in 1924, Joseph Stalin took charge as the General Secretary; Tsaritsyn was renamed Stalingrad in honour of his role in the defence of the city. The name is derived from the compound of Stalin (Сталин; his name) and grad (град: name for a settlement in Russian).
In the aftermath of Stalin's death, Nikita Khrushchev announced the policy of De-Stalinization. The name was changed to Volgograd in 1961, derived from name of the Volga river, on whose bank the city is situated.
Although the city may have originated in 1555, documented evidence of Tsaritsyn at the confluence of the Tsaritsa and Volga rivers dates from 1589. The structure stood slightly above the mouth of the Tsaritsa River on the right bank. It soon became the nucleus of a trading settlement.
At the beginning of the 17th century, the garrison consisted of 350 to 400 people. In 1607 the fortress garrison rebelled for six months against the troops of Tsar Vasili Shuisky. In the following year saw the construction of the first stone church in the city, dedicated to St. John the Baptist.
In 1670 troops of Stepan Razin captured the fortress; they left after a month. In 1708 the insurgent Cossack Kondraty Bulavin (died July 1708) held the fortress. In 1717 in the Kuban pogrom, raiders from the Kuban under the command of the Crimean Tatar Bakhti Gerai [ru] blockaded the town and enslaved thousands in the area. In August 1774 Cossack leader Yemelyan Pugachev unsuccessfully attempted to storm the city.
In 1691 Moscow established a customs-post at Tsaritsyn. In 1708 Tsaritsyn was assigned to the Kazan Governorate; in 1719[citation needed] to the Astrakhan Governorate. According to the census in 1720, the city had a population of 408 people. In 1773 the settlement was designated as a provincial and district town. From 1779 it belonged to the Saratov Viceroyalty. In 1780 the city came under the newly established Saratov Governorate.
In the nineteenth century, Tsaritsyn became an important river-port and commercial center. As a result, it also became a hub for migrant workers; in 1895 alone, over 50,000 peasant migrants came to Tsaritsyn in search of work. The population expanded rapidly, increasing from fewer than 3,000 people in 1807 to about 84,000 in 1900. By 1914, the population had again jumped and was estimated at 130,000. Sources show 893 Jews registered as living there in 1897, with the number exceeding 2,000 by the middle of the 1920s. At the turn of the nineteenth century, Tsaritsyn was essentially a frontier town; almost all of the structures were wooden, with neither paved roads nor utilities. The first railway reached the town in 1862. The first theatre opened in 1872, the first cinema in 1907. In 1913 Tsaritsyn got its first tram-line, and the city's first electric lights were installed in the city center.
Between 1903 and 1907, the area was one of the least healthy in Europe, with a mortality rate of 33.6 for every 1000 persons. Untreated sewage spilled into the river, causing several cholera epidemics between 1907 and 1910. Although the region had an active Sanitary Executive Commission that sent out instructions on the best ways to prevent outbreaks and dispatched a delegate from the Anti-Plague Commission to Tsaritsyn in 1907, local municipal officials did not put any precautions into place, citing economic considerations. The city's drinking water came directly from the river, the intake pipe dangerously close to both the port and the sewage drain. There were neither funds nor political will to close the port (the main hub of economic activity) or move the intake pipes. As a result, in the three years spanning 1908 to 1910, Tsaritsyn lost 1,045 people to cholera. With a population of only 102,452 at the time, that amounted to a 1.01% loss of the population.
Between 1908 and 1911, Tsaritsyn was home to Sergei Trufanov, also known as the 'mad monk' Iliodor. He spent most of his time causing infighting and power struggles within the Russian Orthodox Church, fomenting anti-semitic zeal and violence in local populations, attacking the press, denouncing local municipal officials and causing unrest wherever he went. The most permanent mark he left on the city was the Holy Spirit Monastery (Russian: Свято-Духовский монастырь), built in 1909, parts of which still stand today.
In light of the explosive population growth, the lack of political action on sanitation and housing, the multiple epidemics and the presence of volatile personalities, it is no surprise that the lower Volga region was a hotbed of revolutionary activity and civil unrest. The inability of the Tsarist government to provide basic protections from cholera on the one hand and subjecting the populace to strict but ineffective health measures on the other, caused multiple riots in 1829, in the 1890s and throughout the first decade of the 1900s, setting the stage for multiple Russian revolutions and adding fuel to the political fire. During the Russian Civil War of 1917–1923, Tsaritsyn came under Soviet control from November 1917. In 1918 White Movement troops under Pyotr Krasnov, the Ataman of the Don Cossack Host, besieged Tsaritsyn. The Reds repulsed three assaults by the Whites. However, in June 1919 the White Armed Forces of South Russia, under the command of General Denikin, captured Tsaritsyn, and held it until January 1920. The fighting from July 1918 to January 1920 became known as the Battle for Tsaritsyn.
On April 10, 1925, the city was renamed Stalingrad, in honor of Joseph Stalin, General Secretary of the Communist Party. This was officially to recognize the city and Stalin's role in its defense against the Whites between 1918 and 1920.
Once the Soviets established control, ethnic and religious minorities were targeted. The only Jewish school in the area was closed down in 1926. In 1928, a campaign was launched by the Regional Executive Council to close down the synagogue in Stalingrad. Due to local pushback, they were not successful until 1929, when the council convened a Special Commission. The Commission convinced local municipal powers that the building was in need of major repairs, was unsafe and much too small for the over 800 worshippers who regularly showed up for high holidays.
In 1931, the German settlement-colony Old Sarepta (founded in 1765) became a district of Stalingrad. Renamed Krasnoarmeysky Rayon (or "Red Army District"), it was the largest area of the city. The first higher education institute was opened in 1930. A year later, the Stalingrad Industrial Pedagogical Institute, now Volgograd State Pedagogical University, was opened. Under Stalin, the city became a center of heavy industry and transshipment by rail and river.
During World War II, German and Axis forces attacked the city, which, in 1942, became the site of one of the war's pivotal battles. The Battle of Stalingrad was the deadliest single battle in the history of warfare (casualties estimates vary between 1,250,000 and 2,500,000).
The battle began on August 23, 1942, and on the same day, the city suffered heavy aerial bombardment that reduced most of it to rubble. Martial law had already been declared in the city on July 14. By September, the fighting reached the city center. The fighting was of unprecedented intensity; the city's central railway station changed hands thirteen times, and the Mamayev Kurgan (one of the highest points of the city) was captured and recaptured eight times.
By early November, the German forces controlled 90 percent of the city and had cornered the Soviets in two narrow pockets, but they were unable to eliminate the last pockets of Soviet resistance before Soviet forces launched a huge counterattack on November 19. This resulted in the Soviet encirclement of the German Sixth Army and other Axis units. On January 31, 1943, Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus, the Sixth Army's commander, surrendered; by February 2, with the elimination of straggling German troops, the Battle of Stalingrad was over.
The bombing campaign and five months of fighting destroyed 99% of the city. Of the population of more than half a million before the battle, only 1,515 remained following the battle's conclusion.
In 1945, the Soviet Union awarded Stalingrad the title Hero City for its resistance. Great Britain's King George VI awarded the citizens of Stalingrad the jeweled "Sword of Stalingrad" in recognition of their bravery.
A number of cities around the world (especially those that had suffered similar wartime devastation) established sister, friendship, and twinning links (see list below) in the spirit of solidarity or reconciliation. One of the first "sister city" projects was that established during World War II between Stalingrad and Coventry in the United Kingdom; both had suffered extensive devastation from aerial bombardment.
On 10 November 1961, Nikita Khrushchev's administration changed the name of the city to Volgograd ("Volga City") as part of his programme of de-Stalinization following Stalin's death. This action was and remains somewhat controversial, because Stalingrad has such importance as a symbol of resistance during World War II.
During Konstantin Chernenko's brief rule in 1984, proposals were floated to revive the city's Stalinist name for that reason. There was a strong degree of local support for a reversion, but the Russian Soviet government did not accept such proposals.
On May 21, 2007, Roman Grebennikov of Communist Party was elected as mayor with 32.47% of the vote, a plurality. Grebennikov became Russia's youngest mayor of a federal subject administrative center at the time.
In 2010, Russian monarchists and leaders of the Orthodox organizations demanded that the city should take back its original name of Tsaritsyn, but the authorities rejected their proposal.
On January 30, 2013, the Volgograd City Council passed a measure to use the title "Hero City Stalingrad" in city statements on nine specific dates annually. On the following dates, the title "Hero City Stalingrad" can officially be used in celebrations:
February 2 (end of the Battle of Stalingrad),
February 23 (Defender of the Fatherland Day),
May 9 (Victory Day),
June 22 (start of Operation Barbarossa),
August 23 (start of the Battle of Stalingrad),
September 2 (Victory over Japan Day),
November 19 (start of Operation Uranus),
December 9 (Day of the Fatherland's Heroes)
In addition, in January 2013, 50,000 people signed a petition to Vladimir Putin, asking that the city's name be permanently changed to Stalingrad. President Putin has replied that such a move should be preceded by a local referendum and that the Russian authorities will look into how to bring about such a referendum.
Notable People:
Nikolay Davydenko, tennis player
Sasha Filippov, spy
Oleg Grebnev, handball player
Yekaterina Grigoryeva, sprinter
Larisa Ilchenko, long-distance swimmer
Yelena Isinbayeva, pole vaulter
Lev Ivanov, association football manager
Yuriy Kalitvintsev, association football manager
Elem Klimov, film director
Egor Koulechov professional basketball player
Alexey Kravtsov, jurist
Vladimir Kryuchkov, statesman
Tatyana Lebedeva, jumper
Maxim Marinin, figure skater
Maksim Opalev, sprint canoeist
Aleksandra Pakhmutova, composer
Denis Pankratov, Olympic swimmer
Evgeni Plushenko, Olympic figure skater
Yevgeny Sadovyi, Olympic swimmer
Natalia Shipilova, handball player
Yelena Slesarenko, high jumper
Leonid Slutsky, football coach
Yuliya Sotnikova, 400m athlete
Yulia MacLean Townsend, classical opera singer
Igor Vasilev, handball player
Oleg Veretennikov, association football player
Natalia Vikhlyantseva, tennis player
Vasily Zaytsev, Soviet sniper and a Hero of the Soviet Union
Built in the early 1000s AD, this Byzantine-style church, originally a Greek Orthodox Church dedicated to Soteira Panagia, was constructed by the Kottakis family, and is believed to sit on the site of an ancient temple. The building was heavily damaged during the Greek War of Independence in 1821-1829, and was later renovated to serve as the home of the Russian Orthodox Church of Athens between 1847 and 1855, which heavily altered what remained of the original structure. The church was further modified in 1908-1917, with a further extension of the building and addition of the bell towers. the church features a rough-hewn stone and red brick exterior, a dome, spolia taken from ancient buildings, roman arched and arrow slit window bays, a cross-gabled and hipped red terra cotta tile roof, and the remains of Byzantine frescoes in the interior. The building today serves once again as a Greek Orthodox Church, and has been returned to an appearance closer to its Medieval form, with the removal of the bell towers.
Mad shouts for the support all these years, y'all have been an inspiration.
Jun, Todd, Randy, Ryan & Fibes and all who's involved. One love!
Non è una foto mia, ma una cosina simpatica che ho trovato che metto qui..dedicata a tante persone, a tante cose che penso, e a te che stai leggendo se sei qualcuno che non mi piace:P
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LOWER MAINLAND, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA, 22/Jun/2019 --- GearUp4CF is a fundraising bike ride dedicated to raising funds and awareness for Cystic Fibrosis. GearUp 2019 took place on June 22nd-23rd. One day riders rode from Cresent Beach, Surrey to Chilliwack. Two day riders continued from Chilliwack to Manning Park on the second day. Further information at:
secure.e2rm.com/registrant/EventHome.aspx?eventid=249704
www.cysticfibrosis.ca/western-canada/
www.facebook.com/CysticFibrosisWesternCanada/
Photo by Matt Smart.
Winners: Ahmad Ali, Operations Manager and Osama Barakat, SME Manager, Vitas Jordan (Accepting - Rohit Kulkarni)
Ahmad and Osama dedicated time and effort to train their colleagues in Vitas Egypt on best practices needed to manage operational activities efficiently and effectively. They brought professionalism and an understanding of the big picture strategy and goals of Vitas Group.
Stopped here to have lunch when I noticed the sign.Paxton is very dedicated to Fire,Police and the armed forces.Respect.
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