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GRANTS PASS-RUBTSOVSK ARE MEMBERS OF
SISTER CITIES INTERNATIONAL:
In 1956, President Eisenhower proposed a people-to-people program at a White House
conference.
Originally
a part of the National League of Cities,
Sister Cities International (SCI)
became a
separate,
nonprofit corporation
in 1967.
The Grants
Pass Sister City Committee was formed in 1990, after white-water rafters
from
the
two
cities
met at
an international competition during the late
years of the Cold War.
Candace
Bartow
and
Lev Korshunov, then
respectively
the mayors of Grants Pass
and Rubtsovsk,
signed
the
agreement in
1990,
"to
develop friendship
between people
of the
Soviet Union
and
the United
States
and to stimulate
economic
and cultural cooperation..."
Since then,
the sister city committees in Rubtsovsk and in Grants Pass have
facilitated
visits
of
over 200
citizens
between our cities. Pen and email
pals correspond; books
have been donated
to each other's
libraries;
special
sewing machines for the blind
and medical
supplies were
donated
and delivered, and
videotapes and gifts
have
been exchanged.
GRANTS PASS
SISTER CITY COMMITTEE MISSION:
To foster goodwill and
understanding between the cities of Rubtsovsk, Russia
and Grants Pass,
Oregon,
and to provide
a conduit for citizen exchange.
The Grants Pass Sister City Committee: a non-profit membership organization affiliated with Sister Cities International.
Our sister
city is Rubtsovsk, Russia, located in south central Siberia, three times
zones east
of
Moscow,
near
the
point where the borders of Mongolia, China, Kazakhstan and Russia meet.
It
has a population
of about
170,000
people. Founded in
the 1880s, it was built on the Siberian
steppe (plains), where rich
black
soil produces
wheat,
sunflowers (for cooking oil), and grazing
for dairy
cattle. Not far from
the
rugged Altai Mountains to the
south where
rich
mineral ores are
found, it became
a manufacturing
center in the mid-20th
century.
After WWII,
a large tractor factory became the major industry in Rubtsovsk. In the
1980's,
it
employed
about
22,000
people and provided housing, health
services, and cultural activities, for
its employees and
their families.
Rubtsovsk,
like other former Soviet cities, has experienced unbelievable changes over
the past
decade.
The people
active in sister city activities tell their
Grants Pass friends
that their sister city
connection has
many times
sustained their hope.
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This website is maintained by the Grants Pass
Sister City Committee, Grants Pass, Oregon, USA
Webmaster Judy Gosnell
Web hosting provided by Mark Kellenbeck.Photos above from Rubtsovsk web site
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