Twin-cities

In 1991 Izhevsk entered the Twin cities international association. The twin cities movement was born during the World War II. In 1942 Coventry (the United Kingdom) and Stalingrad (the Soviet Union) decided to set up friendly relations in purpose to bring people into a closer understanding of each other and to promote cross-border projects of mutual benefit. Lately, noble aims of the movement obtained the recognition of the general public and furthered the development of civil initiative in different countries. Since 1964 till 1991 the Association on cooperation between soviet and foreign cities was functioning, and with its assistance 289 cities and regions of the former Union established cooperation with 530 cities and regions in 71 countries. In 1991 the decision of setting up the Twin cities international association as an international public organization was made that broke formal political barriers and opened Association for cities and regions of all former Soviet Union states.

On 10^th of December, 1992 friendly relations with Tatabanya (Hungary) were established and special agreements on cooperation were signed. On 12^th of June, 1995 Izhevsk and Yambol (Bulgaria) became twin cities. On 12^th of May, 2002 friendly relations with Xining (China) were set up. On 11^th of June, 2004 Bedzin (Poland) became a sister city of Izhevsk. On 13^th of June, 2006 friendly relations with Cordoba (Argentina) were officially established and special agreements on cooperation were signed. Approximately in a month (on 25th of July, 2006) Maracay (Venezuela) and Izhevsk became twin cities.

Moreover, in December, 2004 friendly relations with Salt Lake City (the USA) were established.