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Letter from St. Petersburg Mayor’s Office
Unofficial Translation
Government of St. Petersburg
Committee for External Relations of St. Petersburg
Smolny, St. Petersburg, 191060
July 5, 2010, Ref. #3098/10
Mr. Frederick Andresen
President, LASPSCC
Los Angeles, California, USA
Dear Mr. Andresen,
On behalf of the Governor of St. Petersburg Valentina Matvienko allow me to thank you for your letter and the Los Angeles St. Petersburg Sister City Committee’s initiative to organize [...]
“A Twenty Year Friendship Between Los Angeles and St. Petersburg”
Invitation to Student Art Exhibit in PDF format
The Los Angeles-St. Petersburg Sister City Committee and the Los Angeles Unified School District
invite you to join them to the closing ceremony of the exhibit “A Twenty Year Friendship Between Los Angeles and St. Petersburg”,
on May 6, from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
at Charles White Elementary [...]
Arts Project
The Los Angeles/St. Petersburg Sister City Committee is developing an art and cultural exchange, and citizen outreach project between the students of Los Angeles Unified School District and their peer in St. Petersburg.
In the first phase, LASPSCC plans to exhibit a small number of paintings made by the LAUSD students and Los Angeles university students [...]
Anna Akhmatova
Anna Akhmatova was born on this day, June 23, 120 years ago.
The LASPSCC is proud to have sponsored the restoration and digital preservation of Akhmatova’s “Poem Without a Hero” by Dr. Natalia Kraineva, a Senior Fellow at the Russian National Library in St. Petersburg. The presentation of the book will take place today in St. [...]
LASPSCC Fundraiser
UPDATE: See photos of the event here.
The USC IGM Art Gallery & Los Angeles – Saint Petersburg Sister Sity Committee cordially invite you to join a virtual, artistic tour to Saint Petersburg through visual art, film, cultural discussion and live music with the current exhibits:
The Public Statement: Environment, Society and Institutions by Alexey Steele and [...]
Anna Akhmatova
The work by Dr. Kraineva on the poems of the famed Anna Akhmatova continue with our help at the State Library Archives in St. Petersburg. Dr. Kraineva’s initial focus was on the poet’s famous work “Poem without a Hero.” Akhmatova’s work is particularly hard to condense into a final format as she wrote on whatever [...]
Fred Andresen – President
We welcome Fred Andresen as our new President, who was unanimously elected at the Board Meeting on October 22, 2006. Fred has been a very active Board Member, whose personal knowledge of St. Petersburg through his business ventures and cultural passions will greatly benefit the LASPSCC.
Medical Committee Project Progress
The project is continuing with ongoing contacts with the Russian faculty leaders, the trained faculty (3) and the Special Fellows who began postgraduate training in September 2004.
The Project is a model for the international medical community devoted to assisting developing countries. The unique characteristics include:
Collaboration and trust between the Russian leaders and Western experts;
Continuity – [...]
Annual Hollywood Christmas Parade
Sister Cities International (SCI) participated in the 2005 Annual Hollywood Christmas Parade held on Sunday, November 27 in Hollywood, CA. Part of SCI, The Los Angeles-St. Petersburg Sister City Committee was well represented during the day’s festivities by young ballerina Kasha Kropinski. Dressed in a beautiful ballerina costume, Kasha represented the dancers of the legendary [...]
