For 19th time Latvian Youth Winter Olympics was held in Ērgļi from 8th till 9th of February. Each year it is organized by the Latvian Olympic Committee in cooperation with Ērgļi county council. In overall ranking of school teams winner isSecondary school ofAlūksnes County – they took home six gold and three silver medals. At least
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The flu in Daugavpils has not stopped
11.02.2013
Monitoring indicates that despite the high level of illness, the flu slowly reduces, but it doesn’t indicate that epidemic ends. Last week there were 635 ill people, the week before last – 976 ill people.
This year a lot of children are ill. Head of Regional Hospital Aivars Zdanovskis informed that flu is heavy this year, with many complications. Most common complication is
Daugavpils county Tourism Information Centre participated in the International Trade Fair ‘Balttour’
07.02.2013
Daugavpils county Tourism Information Centre participated in the 20th International Trade Fair ‘Balttour 2013’, which was held from February 8-10 February at Kipsala International Exhibition Centre. The centre took part at holding a presentation on variety of tourism opportunities of Latgale at stand of Latgale region ‘Latgale unites’ in cooperation with 18
The state joint-stock company ‘State Real Estate’ in cooperation with Daugavpils City Council and the State Inspection for Heritage Protection organized a discussion on “Development perspectives of the Daugavpils fortress” on February 7 at Mark Rothko Art centre. The objective of the discussion was to summarize ideas,
On 31st of January administration of Latgale Planning Region and Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development organized presentation of movie “Latgale. Three stories” The presentation was opened by State Secretary of Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development Aleksandrs Antonovs, administration of Latgale Planning Region and
Exhibition “The Nature is Dyeing”
28.01.2013
On 1st February at 12.00 in the exhibition hall of Daugavpils Regional and Art Museum will be opened exhibition “The Nature is Dyeing”. The exhibition will be devoted to in Latvia commonly found herbs which can be easily collected and used in yarn dyeing. There will be available informational material, dried herbs as well as samples of dyed yarn. In the exhibition
„Golden Puck – 2013” starts on Tuesday
28.01.2013
Annual tournament “Golden Puck” for school and yard teams will start with three games on Tuesday. This year in tournament will participate seven teams.
Teams could sign in until 22nd of January. Third year in a row this tournament will be organized byDaugavpils hockey club in cooperation withDaugavpils sports department and education department.
This year
Grigorjeva won „Grand Prix” stage in Russia
28.01.2013
Daugavpilsathlete Anastasija Grigorjeva won "Golden Grand Prix" stage in freestyle wrestling in weight category till 63 kilograms. In semi-final she got revanche against Mongol sportswoman for the loss at the London Olympic Games.
Anastasija Grigorjeva in a weekend took part in an international competition inKrasnoyarskwhere "Golden Grand Prix" stage dedicated to the memory of Ivan
I would like to emphasize, that this budget will allow the municipality not only to perform its main functions in good quality and to ensure the work of all organizations and institutions, but it will also secure the planned development of the city, implementation of new projects and further realization of those projects implementation of which has not been finished yet. Owing to the main
The youth centre of informal education, located in Varšavas street 45, met 2013 with optimism and creative ideas for further development.
The aim of work of the centre is to encourage the youth to use their free time active and useful. 18 youth organizations help to achieve this aim. These organizations operate in the centre of youth informal education in different spheres of
On January 22 a commemoration of the January uprising took place in the Tourism and information centre of the Daugavpils fortress. This is an important event not only to the Polish nation but to the whole Europe as well. This event is closely related to the Daugavpils fortress.
Polish Ambassador to Latvia Jerzy Marek Nowakowski, the Chairperson of Daugavpils city council Žanna
You are kindly invited to the weekly conversation clubs at Erfolg! Take this opportunity to practice your foreign languages with our volunteers! We propose 3 different conversation clubs:
French conversation club on Tuesday from 17:30 to 19:00. This week’s topic is travels (Les voyages: Quelle fut votre
2012 was a year of an intensive work in theDaugavpilsfortress - several projects have been implemented, which made the working process and attracting of tourism more difficult. ‘Nevertheless the plans for this year are even more ambitious’, tell Jānis Dukšinskis - the administrator of theDaugavpilsfortress and Artjoms Mahlins – expert on project issues.
Though
Remembering the time of Barricades
18.01.2013
The time of the Barricades of January 1991 – time, when people from all Latvia gathered together in Riga to defend the just reborn freedom of their country.
In honor to this event Daugavpils Regional and Art Museum on 18th of January at 11.00 will hold remembrance event “Remembering the time of Barricades”. People from Daugavpils district –
On Friday, in a festive ceremony, the best athletes of 2012 in 13 different nominations were announced. Dmitrijs Jurkevičs was awarded as the year’s best sportsman and Anastasija Grigorjeva was awarded as the best sportswoman.
In the “Sport Laureate – 2012” ceremony the best athletes of the last year in 13 different nominations were announced as well as
Exhibition ‘Lithuanian winter solstice decoration ‘Puzurs’ and knitted wrist warmer cuffs’
16.01.2013
will be held at the Daugavpils Clay Art Centre from January 18th till March 14th, 2013.
Though according to the astronomical calendar winter continues till March 20, days grow longer again, it is time when Shrovetide (the Latvian equivalent for it is Meteņi) has been celebrated. People are cherishing the hope that the warmth of the sun will return. In the
Three skating rinks works in Daugavpils
15.01.2013
Also in this year, city inhabitants will have the possibility to spend their free time at outdoor skating rinks, which already are ready to operate.
Continuing the tradition, also in this year, city inhabitants will have the possibility to skate at outdoor skating rinks. Under the authority ofDaugavpilssport department there will be two skating rinks onKandavas street17a near Daugavpils
It has become known that in September, 2014 100 km World Championship race will be held inDaugavpils.DaugavpilsoutrivaledJapan,ItalyandFrancein a fight for right to host the competition.
This year, for the third time alreadyDaugavpilswill host the 50 km stage of the World Cup race, but in 2014 100 km World Championship race will be held inDaugavpils.
This information became
From 14th of January, 2013 at the Daugavpils Regional and Art Museum will no longer be exhibition of works of Mark Rothko and participants of International Plein Air “Mark Rothko”.
The works will be exhibited in the newly founded Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre which opening is planned on 24th of April,
Four days Daugavpils lived in the rhythms and sounds of the X International Sacred Music Festival “Silver Bells”.
Concerts, rehearsals, meetings, excursion to the city and other similar activities brought together more than 2500 participants of the Festival from four countries. On Saturday the main event was contest of choirs, vocal ensembles and groups, which continued also