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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.
 


    

OUR TWO BRIDGES...Rogue River & Alei River

  

Photos from Rubtsovsk

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