Hi! My name is Dima and I want to tell you about the city where I live.The city name was given by the Empress Catherine II. Drawing a plan for the future of the County town, presented to the Empress, made her Association with the all-seeing eye (eye). According to this version, the city got its name "Glazov".

55 interesting facts about my city :

1. Glazov – a city in the North of Udmurtia. Located on the TRANS-Siberian railway between the cities of Perm and Kirov.

2. Residents like to say that the city is home to 100 thousand people, although everyone knows that living in the city much less – about 80 thousand.
3. Residents of the city call themselves – hlasovani. Not terribly fond of being called – glasovi.
4. Glasovanje surprised when people outside of the Udmurt Republic think of Udmurtia, about Yakutia. To the question: where is Glazov? answer: Izhevsk know? Well, this is where Kalashnikovs are doing... here... and Glazov next.
5. Officially the city was founded in 1780, but in reality, the city became a city after the opening of the Chepetsk mechanical plant in 1946.
6. The highest point in the Glazovsky district – mountain Solder.

7. Near the village of Solder and a little further, near the village of Adam, are the most prestigious suburban areas.
8. The city has several factories, but when they say "plant" all glasovanje understand that we are talking about CMP.

9. Almost all glasovanje would like to work at CMP.
10. Glasovanje like to speak on the subject: CMP to be closed soon.
11.The most beautiful part of the city built after the war, German prisoners and prisoners.
12. To live in Stalin's homes – prestigious.
13. The city is fairly compact for the reason that there is a large number of high-rise and mnogopodezdnom houses. Glasovanje proud of the fact that the city is small and convenient: you can walk through in an hour from East to West.
14. The main streets of the city, as the cilia differ from Freedom square.
15. Glazochkom for 20 years, promising to repair the station. Every time they believe it.

16. Train Glazov stand 3 minutes. 27 kilometers to the East there is a station Balezino, where the trains are half an hour. Glasovanje like to talk about the fact that if it wasn't factory, CMW, long trains standing in Glazov.
17. The majority of glazovka does not know the names of the mayor and the head of the city administration.
18. The city Council, unlike other towns of the Udmurt Republic, almost half of the deputies - Communists. But this does not affect the life of the city.
19. One of the office buildings the city is a monument to the janitor. The janitor as two drops of water similar to the one the mayor, the city of Glazov.

20. In Glazov has long stood a monument to the vodka - a large bottle of vodka.

21. In Glazov say the name of the river Cheptsa received from Empress Catherine II, which is kind of dropped in the water cap.According to another version the name of the river gave the Udmurts. "Kupci" in Udmurt – swampy river. And Chita" on the Udmurt water.
22. In Glazov is a monument to Pavlik Morozov. Flowers to the monument laid.

23. In no prefabricated house. All the houses are brick, block or wood.
24. Glasovanje think your city is green. There are a lot of poplars planted in 50-th years (it used to be that poplar purify of radiation). A little color.

25. Glasovanje believe that the vodka removes radiation. In the fifties of beer stood on the perimeter of the CMP and at the plant.
26. More recently, glasovanje drank mostly only their own, Glazovskaya vodka. Thought she was good and drove friends and relatives as a gift. Now I drink for the money, but fans of Glazov in the city a lot.

27. Hlasovanie conventionally divided the city into old and new. The old town was previously called "second phase". The cemetery is called the sixth precinct.
28. Glasovanje think that 4 stops on the bus is far away. Often use a taxi. Taxi is booming. Walking around the city rare and few. Mainly shopping.
29. In winter, the road Glazova do not sprinkle with salt.
30. Glasovanje eat a lot of dairy products: cheese, sour cream, milk. They always have in the refrigerator glasgowcan.
31. Glasovanje love potatoes. Favorite dish average glasovanja – mashed potatoes with cutlet or fried potatoes.
32. Talking about an eye, we can say that here all know each other. Well, if I don't know, you know, who knows.
33. The main source of information in the city – word of mouth.
34. Glasovanje don't like local TV and always scolded him. But local Newspapers are not abused. Glazovskaya Newspapers (two) do not recognize each other.
35. Around the city incredibly large number of garden societies here called "gardening". Citizens over forty – there is a rest for body and soul. Vacation is generally carried on their plots. Here, on their dachas, glasovanje friends, celebrate holidays...
36. Glasovanje don't like Izhevsk, but often moving there to live and work.
37. Glasgowcan there is a saying: give steam to the heating system is to heat on the street; turned off the heating – the temperature of the outside air falls... That is interesting, so often the case.
38. Glasovanje looks very different. There are high cheekbones and a round-faced, blue-eyed and black-eyed, red-haired and brown-haired, brown and white... this is Due to the fact that from 50 to 80 years, came to the city from across the Soviet Union. In Glazov could make good money, get an apartment. Product selection in the stores was much richer than in other cities.
39. In Glazov there are no trams and trolleybuses.
40. In Glazov has no promenade. There is a river. Bonnet.
41. Education in Glazov at a high level. There are a few elite schools. Graduates from these schools almost certainly arrive in the capital's Universities and home have not returned.
42. Motorists in Glazov, as a rule, pass pedestrians on pedestrian crossings.
43. Glasovanje not pass wearing clothes in the thrift shop. Such clothes usually give to friends (in the garden, in the garage, take the center of social security, to boarding schools or simply spread around the garbage cans to be picked up by those who are in need.
44. In Glazov have a hockey team "Progress" and mini-football club "Progress".

45. In Glazov is a theatre "Paraphrase". Go to the theatre teachers, doctors, students, pupils and workers. Officials in theater do not go.

46. In Glazov writer Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko was in exile. Called then it's fake. Called, you might say. And glasovanje put a monument to him and the institution his name was called.
47. In Glazov only one bookstore.
48. Students have little interest in the city. Don't know the names of the streets, the number of schools. Companies can call CMP and liquor store.
49. Officials like to call Glazov Glazov Northern capital of Udmurt Republic and the cultural capital of Udmurt Republic. Simple glasovanje.
50. Glasovanje like to call their shops, cafes and restaurants are the most appropriate for the city names: Arbat, Babylon, Ambre, Metropolitan, Three banana, Prestige, Dolce Vita, street Dynamo (the city administration). There is even a shop GUM – Glazov-s top shop.

51. Guests Glazova glasovanje offer to buy as a souvenir – product of zirconium. Themselves glasovanje zirconium trinkets do not buy.
52. Probably a third of the Glazov family has a car. Courts clogged with parked cars.
53. Grandmothers in Glazov much more than grandparents. Grandmother raising grandchildren grow vegetables, sell grown, feed the pigeons, watch TV shows, go to concerts, sing in the choir of veterans. Grandfather from Glazov usually go in early may to the country (the garden) and live there until October.
54. Without ties to a well-paid job in Glazov does not get.
55. The most famous glasovanja now – skater Liza Tuktamysheva.

If you become interested I will continue the review of the city and my life in it