Dvinsk

None of this is helped by the fact that a few years ago, I watched this Dvinsk Clan parkour video and this breakdancing video and decided I wanted to be able to do cool stuff like that.

Hello, I’m five years old | Johnny B. Truant 2009

Practically speaking, Smolensk was the last obstacle of any importance before Moscow, and the only militarily sound place to defend the capital was along a line that stretched from Smolensk northwest through Vitebsk, Polotsk, and Dvinsk, this last town sitting athwart the Warsaw to Leningrad rail line.

Deathride John Mosier 2010

Practically speaking, Smolensk was the last obstacle of any importance before Moscow, and the only militarily sound place to defend the capital was along a line that stretched from Smolensk northwest through Vitebsk, Polotsk, and Dvinsk, this last town sitting athwart the Warsaw to Leningrad rail line.

Deathride John Mosier 2010

Ruta (Mina) Batkhan, (d. 1942), an eloquent speaker in both Russian and Yiddish, was a well-known representative of the Bund among Jewish socialists in Dvinsk, Bialystok, and Lodz.

Bund. 2009

Sarah Malkhin, who was born in Dvinsk (now Daugavpils), Latvia, in 1885, became active in the Zionist youth movement Pirhei Zion at the beginning of the twentieth century, when the dream of the “Great Revolution,” both personal and social, gave rise to ideals of a new and better life for humanity as a whole and for Jews in particular.

Sarah Malkhin. 2009

By 1890 there were five million of them there, concentrated in middle-sized towns like Vitebsk and neighbouring Dvinsk (now Daugavpils) and constituting 40 percent of world Jewry.

'Chagall' 2008

The video is from the Dvinsk Clan - a Latvian not Russian parkour club.

Absurd Athleticism Will Price 2005

Polish troops kept moving, taking the Latvian city of Dvinsk in January 1920.

The Polish Invasion? Magala, Slawomir 1995

Manstein has described how, after his corps had been waiting for two days at Dvinsk, Hoepner arrived in a Fieseler Storch but "could tell us nothing" except "to widen the bridgehead, and keep the crossings open."

Barbarossa Clark, Alan 1965

By now the northwestern front, denuded of its armour, was disintegrating fast, with the surviving armies falling back on Riga and uncovering the approaches to Dvinsk.

Barbarossa Clark, Alan 1965