Today marks World Sister Cities Day
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Today marks the World Sister Cities Day, aiming to strengthen historical and cultural ties between different cities.
Celebrated on the last Sunday of April, the holiday dates back to 1944 when citizens of the English town of Coventry sent some humanitarian cargo to Stalingrad.
They also sent a tablecloth with embroidered words “Little help is better than big sympathy”.
After WW II this practice became quite popular worldwide.
The pairs of twin cities include Russia's Vorkuta and Madagascar's capital of Antananarivo, Zhukovsky (outside Moscow) and French Le Bourget, Irkutsk in Siberia and Japan’s Kanazawa.
Russia's Saint Petersburg holds a record for having twinned with 90 cities.


















































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