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61 unusual facts about Bucharest


007: Agent Under Fire

Analysis of the computer message from Romania mentions "Defective Mercandise," believed to be a codename for Dr. Natalya Damescu, formerly in the employ of Malprave, now under protection at the British embassy in Bucharest, in which Bond already went to.

449th Air Expeditionary Group

The group received a Distinguished Unit Citation (DUC) for a mission on 4 April 1944 when the group, flying without escort, raided marshalling yards in Bucharest.

A Farewell to Fools

A Farewell to Fools was filmed in the Romanian cities of Bucharest and Sighișoara.

Addison Baker

As a result, when the force reached the target area, the lead group turned at the wrong point and flew towards Bucharest.

Administrative divisions of the People's Republic of Romania

The final result, substantially different from the original territorial organisation prior to 1950, comprised 39 counties, the Bucharest municipality, 236 cities and towns, of which 47 municipalities and 2,706 communes having 13,149 villages.

Alternosfera

In 2001, the band did their first demo recordings in Chişinău, followed by more demo recordings in 2002 in Bucharest, Romania.

Antonio de Zayas

As a diplomat he lived for some time in Istanbul, a city to which he devoted the memoirs A orillas del Bósforo, Estocolmo, San Petersburgo, Bucarest, Berlín y México (On the banks of the Bosphorus, Stockholm, St Petersburg, Bucharest, Berlin and Mexico).

Bartholomew Voorsanger

The New York architect Voorsanger received a Bachelor Degree with Honors from Princeton University, a Master Degree in Architecture from Harvard University, and accepted in 2005 the title of Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Architecture and Urbanism “Ion Mincu”, Bucharest, Romania.

British propaganda during World War I

Special telegraph agencies were established in various European cities, including Bucharest, Bilbao and Amsterdam, in order to facilitate the spread of information.

Bryan Rennie

Translated by Lidia Rosu as: 'Cariera diplomatica a lui M. Eliade—un raspuns Adrianei Berger,' Jurnalul Literar (Bucharest) nr. 5-8 (feb-mar 1993): 1, 4-5.

Bulevardul Unirii

Bulevardul Unirii (Unification Boulevard) is a major thoroughfare in central Bucharest, Romania.

Calea Victoriei

It leads from Splaiul Independenței (which runs parallel to the Dâmboviţa River) to the north and then northwest up to Piaţa Victoriei, where Șoseaua Kiseleff continues north.

Colentina

The name Colentina can refer to three places in Bucharest, Romania.

Corneliu Robe

In his career as a football player, Corneliu Robe played for only two clubs : Olympia and Unirea Tricolor, both teams from Bucharest, his hometown.

Cricket in Romania

In recent years the game has begun to grow again, particularly in Bucharest, Timișoara and Transylvania.

Devilish Presley

In November 2008 the band toured Europe again including a debut gig in (Romania) in the capital (Bucharest).

Dimitrie Gerota

In 1886, he entered the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Bucharest, graduating with an M.D. degree in 1892.

From 1913, he was a professor of surgical anatomy and experimental surgery at the University of Bucharest.

Domino theory

Warsaw, Prague, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia; all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject, in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and in some cases increasing measure of control from Moscow.

Douglas Reed

He went on to report from various European centres including Warsaw, Moscow, Prague, Athens, Sofia, Bucharest and Budapest.

Ecosophy

Naess based his article on a talk he gave in Bucharest in 1972 at the Third World Future Research Conference.

Elena Ceaușescu

After primary school, she moved along with her brother to Bucharest, where she worked as a laboratory assistant before getting a job at a textile factory.

Eric Gates

Gates made his International debut on 10 September 1980 against Norway in a 4-0 World Cup qualifying victory, his only other international appearance coming in a 2-1 World Cup qualifying defeat against Romania in Bucharest.

Ernst Wallfisch

Born into a musical family, Ernst Wallfisch immigrated to Bucharest, Romania in 1926.

EUROGEO-European Association of Geographers

EUROGEO ran a number of workshops meetings and conferences around Europe (Bled, Slovenia; Madeira, Portugal; Bucharest, Romania and Liverpool, UK) to disseminate the outcomes of this project.

False Impression

False Impression concerns an international journey through several countries and continents, including London, New York, Bucharest and Tokyo, and includes historical information about the September 11 attacks on New York, which the protagonist, Anna Petrescu, escapes after being fired by the banker Bryce Fenston.

Franz Kneisel

After graduating from the Bucharest Conservatory in 1879 he went to Vienna, where he continued his studies with Jakob Grün and Joseph Hellmesberger until 1882; he made his solo début in Vienna at the end of that year.

George Enescu Festival

The concerts are held in three different venues in Bucharest, Iaşi and Sibiu.

Georgi Sava Rakovski

Rakovski moved to Bucharest where he continued his journalistic and revolutionary activities.

Hermann Blau

The Augsburg-based company operated later on with Riedinger under the name the German Blau gas company which controlled factories in Vienna, Budapest, Bucharest, Saint Petersburg, the United States, Canada and Cuba.

I Have My Life

Blaxy Girls sung live the song at Palatul Copiilor, Bucharest, in June, 2009.

The video is an excerpt from a Blaxy Girls concert, held in June at Palatul Copiilor in Bucharest, special for shooting this video and singing in premiere their new song "Revolution".

Ivan Vedar

He continued his studies in the medical school in Bucharest, where he got his pseudonym Vedriy or Vedar (meaning cheerful) from the professors Dr Peter Protić and Dr Georgi Atanasović, because of his easy-going temper.

John L. Jerstad

The mission was Operation Tidal Wave, in which 179 B-24s took off on an 18-hour, 2,400 mile round-trip mission to destroy the largest of the Nazi-held oil refineries at Ploieşti, 30 miles north of Bucharest, Romania.

Joseph Halévy

While a teacher in Jewish schools, first in his native town and later in Bucharest, he devoted his leisure to the study of Oriental languages and archeology, in which he became proficient.

Komsomolets armored tractor

Because the T-20 used a Ford motor built under license and Romania had a Ford truck plant in Bucharest, the overhaul and maintenance were simple tasks.

L'Indépendance Roumanie

L'Indépendance Roumanie ('The Independence of Romania') was a French language liberal daily newspaper published from Bucharest.

La Fel De Prost Ca Tine

Produced by Tataee, it was recorded in Bucharest at the Ines Sound & Video studios by long-time collaborator Cristi Dobrică.

Law-Racoviţă Station

The station is located 13,352 km from the capital of Romania, Bucharest.

Mahmut Karaduman

His lieutenant, a Turk named Gabi Kaiat, lives in Bucharest and handles transshipments on the Romanian end.

Marian Ionescu

Upon his return to Romania in 1960 he was appointed Consultant Cardiovascular Surgeon at Fundeni Hospital in Bucharest.

Marshall White

On July 4, 2009 Marshall recorded his biggest win to date, a victory at the Strongman Super Series Bucharest contest, defeating Nick Best, Brian Shaw and Johannes Arsjo.

Mayor of Bucharest

The Mayor of Bucharest (Primarul General al Municipiului Bucureşti in Romanian), sometimes known as the General Mayor, is the head of the Bucharest City Hall in Bucharest, Romania, which is responsible for city-wide affairs, such as the water system, the transport system and the main boulevards.

All decisions of the mayor have to be approved by the 55-seat General Council of Bucharest.

The title of General Mayor is sometimes used to distinguish the office from that of the sectorial mayors that lead each of Bucharest's six administrative sectors, and which are responsible for local area affairs, such as secondary streets, parks, schools and cleaning services.

Mihailo Petrović

He received numerous awards and acknowledgments and was a member of several foreign science academies (Prague, Bucharest, Warsaw, Kraków) and scientific societies.

Morris Moscovitch

He was born in Bucharest, Romania, where he lived for the first few years of his life before moving to Israel between the ages of 4 and 7 and subsequently moving to Montreal, Canada.

Nicholas Dozenberg

Dozenberg tesified to Congress that in the early 1930s he was dispatched on a mission to Bucharest, Romania, to establish a motion picture company which was to be a front for Soviet military intelligence.

Pârvu Cantacuzino

After the military conflict began in October 1768, Pârvu and his brother formed a small group of pro-Russian boyars in Bucharest, and welcomed Russian troops entering the city in November 1769.

Petre Mihai Bănărescu

Petre Mihai Bănărescu (born 15 September 1921 in Craiova, Dolj County — died 12 May 2009 in Bucharest) was a Romanian ichthyologist.

Pușcă Automată model 1986

The Pușcă Automată model 1986 (Automatic Rifle Model 1986, abbreviated PA md. 86 or simply md. 86) is the standard assault rifle used by the Romanian Military Forces and manufactured in Cugir, Romania by firm RomArm S.A. located in Bucharest, Romania.

Radu Bălescu

Radu Bălescu (Bucharest, 18 July 1932 – 1 June 2006, Bucharest) was a Romanian and Belgian (Belgian since 1959) scientist and professor at the Statistical and Plasma Physics group of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB).

Realitatea FM

Realitatea FM or RFM is a radio station based in Bucharest.

Romani people in France

Reuters reported that a charter plane flew 240 Romani, including children, back to Bucharest, Romania, from Lyon.

Sergiu Luca

Sergiu Luca was born in Bucharest, Romania, but his family moved to Israel at his age of 7, and as a 9 year old he debuted with the Haifa Symphony Orchestra.

Socialist Party of Romania

The PS had its headquarters in Bucharest, at the Socialist Club on Sfântul Ionică Street No.12, near the old National Theater (located just north of University Square, the street is currently a section of Ion Câmpineanu Street, after the latter was rerouted).

T-1 tractor

The Romanian General Staff ordered the construction of 1000 tractors between 1944 and 1945 at the Ford truck plant in Bucharest.

Transilvania International Guitar Festival

After two days, the jury, presided by Prof. Dumitru Capoianu and including Prof. Constantin Andrei, Maria Florescu, Valeriu Maior and Aurelian Andrei, awarded the contestants as follows: First Prize - Ionut Zamfirescu (Bucharest); Second Prize - Stan Zamfirescu (Bucharest); Third Prize - Daniel Castravete (Craiova); Special Prize - Anna Tunde Virginas (Targu Mureş); Mentions - Lucian Naste (Targu Mureş) and Anna Tunde Virginas (Targu Mureş).

Valentin Porcișteanu

Valentin Porcișteanu (born on November 25, 1982, Bucharest, Romania) is a pilot in the Romanian Rally Championship, who won the National Champion title in 2011 and two National Runner titles in 2010 and 2012.

Following the 2004 season in which he competed with a Dacia Nova GTI, within Class N1.6, finishing 4th at Brasov Rally, 3rd at Romania Rally and 4th at Harghita Rally, in 2005 he drove a Citroen Saxo VTS, his best event results being Class N1.6 victories at the Maramures Rally and Bucharest Rally.

Wilhelm Steinmann

Jagdgeschwader 4 was still only a single Gruppe in strength at the time and had been set up to provide air protection against bombing raids on the vital Ploesti oil refineries, north of Bucharest.


1975 European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships

It was the 10th edition of this competition that started in 1957 in Bucharest, Romania, that was its first edition.

2008 FIA GT Bucharest 2 Hours

The 2008 Bucharest City Challenge was the sixth round of the 2008 FIA GT Championship season and was organised by City Challenge GmbH.

2012 Bucharest hair salon shooting

At around 17:40 EET, Vlădan entered the hairdressing salon Perla (English language: Pearl), located at the intersection between Dorobanti and Iancu de Hunedoara Blvd. in Bucharest, armed with a 9 mm Glock semi-automatic pistol with a magazine capacity of 19 rounds.

Alexeni

In 2007, as the airfield was not used by the Romanian Air Force anylonger, the former Minister of Transport Radu Berceanu suggested to use the location for Bucharest's new low-cost flights airport(as the operational tariffs for Bucharest's previous low-cost hub, Aurel Vlaicu Airport, were set to grow).

Aurel Vlaicu International Airport

The airport is situated 8 km north of Bucharest city centre and is accessible by RATB buses 131, 335 and Airport Express 783, RATB tramway 5 and taxi.

Bucharest Alexeni Airport

Alexeni Airport was a project for a new low-cost airport for Bucharest, located in the Alexeni town, in Ialomiţa County, at 60 km north-east of the capital city of Romania.

Former Minister of Transport Radu Berceanu suggested the location for Bucharest's new low-cost flights airport (as the operational tariffs for Bucharest's previous low-cost hub, Aurel Vlaicu Airport, were set to grow).

Bulevardul Unirii

Following the 1977 Vrancea earthquake, Bucharest's city center suffered significant damage, and a large number of historic buildings were demolished to make way for the new Centrul Civic (Civic Center; see systematization and Ceaușima).

Ceuta Heliport

Destinations include more than one hundred cities in Europe (mainly in the United Kingdom, Central Europe and the Nordic countries) but also the main cities of Eastern Europe: Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Budapest, Sofia, Warsaw, Riga and Bucharest), North Africa, the Middle East (Riyadh, Jeddah and Kuwait) and North America (New York, Toronto and Montreal).

Cezar Lăzărescu

This architectural style (of which the Moscow State University and its clones such as the "Casa Scînteii" in Bucharest are prime examples) is mandated by law in all countries of the Soviet Empire.

Following this, he builds numerous other significant buildings in Romania (the Palace of Sports in Bucharest, the "Omnia" conference venue next to the Communist Party headquarters in Bucharest, a reception hall for the French embassy in Bucharest) and abroad (the Romanian embassy in Beijing, the Parliament building in Khartoum).

Colentina, Bucharest

An Austrian map of 1791 shows the village as being located at the crossroad of the routes leading to Fundeni, Afumați, Ștefănești, Pipera with the high road bound for Bucharest.

Cundall Johnston and Partners

Founded in Newcastle and Edinburgh, Cundall now has United Kingdom offices in London, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Birmingham and Manchester, with Australian offices in Sydney, Perth, Melbourne and Adelaide plus offices in Dubai, Doha, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Cyprus in Paphos and Nicosia, Madrid, Cluj-Napoca and Bucharest in Romania.

Dărăști-Ilfov

In 2006, RATB reintroduced Route 433 services from Bucharest to Dărăşti, and the city is now once again connected to the capital's public bus network.

De-Stalinization in Romania

This began in 1962, with the reverting everything that was named after Stalin: Brașov (which had been named Orașul Stalin), two raions in Bucharest, 23 national companies, 28 local companies, 26 agricultural cooperatives, 5 schools, 285 socio-cultural institutions (hospitals, clubs, stadiums, etc.) and 541 avenues, streets and parks.

Elisabeth Leonskaja

During her conservatory years she won prizes in the prestigious Enescu, Marguerite Long–Jacques Thibaud and Queen Elizabeth international piano competitions in Bucharest, Paris and Brussels.

Franz Kneisel

Born in Bucharest, the son of a German bandmaster, he learned to play the flute, clarinet and trumpet as well as the violin.

Hinduism in Croatia

The Embassy had nominated the Assistant Professor teaching Hindi in the Zagreb University to attend the Regional Hindi Conference held in Budapest in 2002 and Bucharest in July 2004.

Lucian Ban

2000 – The theater show “Azi ma Ubu ” after Alfred Jarry wins the Great Prize at the Bucharest Humoror Theatre Festival in Bucharest, Romania.

Mărăcineni, Buzău

Mărăcineni is connected to the city via the DN2 national road, across a bridge, known as either the Buzău bridge or the Mărăcineni bridge, which is the most important road connection between Bucharest and the cities of Moldavia.

Mariana Marin

Educated in Bucharest during the time of the Romanian relative cultural freesom of the 1960s, she went on to receive a degree in philology from the University of Bucharest in 1980, starting a grade school teacher career that lasted almost ten years, first in a village along the Danube, then in Bucharest.

Mykhailo Andriienko-Nechytailo

In 1917–1924, he devoted most of his time to designing stage sets for various theaters—in Saint Petersburg, Odessa, Prague, Paris, and for the Royal Opera in Bucharest.

Niyazi

Niyazi conducted many of the major symphony orchestras in Prague, Berlin, Budapest, Bucharest, New York, Paris, Istanbul, London, Tehran, Beijing and Ulan-Bator and played an important role in making the Azeri classical music known to the world.

Pantazi Ghica

George Călinescu, Istoria literaturii române de la origini până în prezent, Editura Minerva, Bucharest, 1986

ProSport

headquarters = Casa Presei Libere, A3-A4 Housing 1st Floor 1 Presei Libere Square
Bucharest, Romania

Qatar Airways

The airline has launched 22 new destinations since 2010, with nine more destinations announced: Ankara, Aleppo, Bangalore, Barcelona, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Copenhagen, Hanoi, Montreal, Nice, Phuket, São Paulo, Shiraz, Kolkata, Medina, Oslo, Sofia, Stuttgart, Venice and Tokyo.

Radu Mihnea

He replaced Polish vassal Simion Movilă on the throne in Bucharest after the brief occupation of Wallachia by the troops of hetmans Jan Zamoyski and Jan Karol Chodkiewicz.

Roberto Russo

As a piano teacher he taught at various Italian Conservatories, giving also Masterclasses at Music University in Tromsø (Norway), at Conservatory of Music in Oviedo (Spain), at Academy of Music in Kraków (Poland) and at the National University of Music Bucharest (Romania).

Samson Flexor

Samson was educated at a private school in Soroca, then in the Odessa Art School in Bucharest, where she moved the whole family.

Sean Kane

Sean was one of the first Scottish actors to perform with Romanian actors at the Teatrul De Comedie in Bucharest Romania in their production entitled 'Home'.

Sighet prison

Victor Papacostea, historian, founder of the Institute for Balkan Studies in Bucharest, former Under-secretary at the Ministry of Education in the Constantin Sănătescu and Nicolae Rădescu cabinets

Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Bucharest

Ten unidentified soldiers who died at Mărăşeşti, Mărăşti, Oituz, Târgu Ocna, Jiu, Prahova, Bucharest, in Dobruja, Transylvania and Bessarabia were exhumed and laid in oak coffins, doubled with zinc, inside the "Assumption of Mary" Church in Mărășești.

Transport in Bucharest

Two distinct, non-interconnected networks exist in Bucharest, the main network (comprising the two main East-West lines as well as a spur in the Northern part of town) and a relatively small Southern network in Berceni.

Tropaeum Traiani

48 metopes are hosted in the Adamclisi museum nearby, and one metope is hosted by Istanbul Archaeology Museum, the rest having been lost (There is a reference from Giurescu that two of them fell into Danube River during the transport to Bucharest).

Valentin Ionescu

Valentin Marian Ionescu (born September 3, 1961, Bucharest, Romania) is a Romanian lawyer, former presidential advisor to the President of Romania Emil Constantinescu (between September 5, 1997 and December 12, 1997) and subsequently Minister of Privatization (December 1997 - April 14, 1998).

Vodka Perfect

Vodka Perfect has won several awards, such as the Romexpo Degustation Bucharest international trade fair contest 2003 and the International Spirit AWARD (ISW) 2004

Wedding in Bessarabia

The director of the film is Napoleon Helmis (born in 1969, Topana); he graduated from the National Theater and Film's Art University in Bucharest in 1996, where he currently teaches film direction.