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Gunārs Rusiņš
Gunārs is a Latvian masculine given name. It is a cognate of the name Gunnar and may refer to: *Gunārs Astra (1931–1988), Latvian human rights activist and anti-Soviet dissident * Gunārs Birkerts (1925–2017), Latvian-born American architect *Gunārs Cilinskis (1931–1992), Latvian actor, film director and screenwriter * Gunārs Ķirsons (born 1951), Latvian entrepreneur and businessman * Gunārs Lūsis (born 1950), Latvian artist and graphic designer *Gunārs Piesis (1935–1996), Latvian film director * Gunārs Priede (1928–2000), Latvian playwright, engineer and architect *Gunārs Saliņš (1924–2010), Latvian modernist poet * Gunārs Skvorcovs (born 1990), Latvian ice hockey right winger *Gunārs Ulmanis Gunārs Ulmanis (1938 – 17 July 2010) was a Latvian football right wing midfielder, one of the most famous Latvian footballers of the 1960s. Biography While at school Ulmanis played both basketball and football but the famous Latvian footba ... (1938–201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latvia
Latvia ( or ; lv, Latvija ; ltg, Latveja; liv, Leţmō), officially the Republic of Latvia ( lv, Latvijas Republika, links=no, ltg, Latvejas Republika, links=no, liv, Leţmō Vabāmō, links=no), is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is one of the Baltic states; and is bordered by Estonia to the north, Lithuania to the south, Russia to the east, Belarus to the southeast, and shares a maritime border with Sweden to the west. Latvia covers an area of , with a population of 1.9 million. The country has a temperate seasonal climate. Its capital and largest city is Riga. Latvians belong to the ethno-linguistic group of the Balts; and speak Latvian, one of the only two surviving Baltic languages. Russians are the most prominent minority in the country, at almost a quarter of the population. After centuries of Teutonic, Swedish, Polish-Lithuanian and Russian rule, which was mainly executed by the local Baltic German aristocracy, the independent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunārs Cilinskis
Gunārs Cilinskis (23 May 1931, Riga — 25 July 1992, Riga District) was a Latvian theater and film actor, film director and screenwriter. He was a People's Artist of the USSR (1979). Family * Wife — Velta Line (1923-2012), actress, People's Artist of the Soviet Union (1973) * Son — Aigars (1958-2007) References External links * Riga Film StudioSonate au-dessus d'un lac {{DEFAULTSORT:Cilinskis, Gunars 1931 births 1992 deaths Film people from Riga Soviet male film actors 20th-century Latvian male actors Soviet film directors Latvian film directors Soviet screenwriters Latvian screenwriters People's Artists of the USSR Recipients of the Vasilyev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR Latvian Academy of Music alumni Soviet male stage actors Latvian male stage actors 20th-century screenwriters Actors from Riga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunārs Skvorcovs
Gunārs Skvorcovs (born 13 January 1990) is a Latvian ice hockey right winger, currently playing for Odense Bulldogs. Playing career Skvorcovs made his debut for Metalurgs already in 2004-05, when he was only fourteen years old and continued to play in the club system for eight seasons. When in 2012-13 season Liepājas Metalurgs became affiliate of Dinamo Riga of KHL, Svorcovs made his debut in KHL. Eventually he split season between Dinamo and Metalurgs. International play Skvorcovs has played for Latvian national team in the 2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ... U18 championship, as well as three World Juniors Championships. References External links * * 1990 births Living people People from Saldus Dinamo Riga players HC Kunlun Red Star players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunārs Saliņš
Gunars Saliņš (21 April 1924 – 29 June 2010) was a modernist poet within the Latvian lyric poetry tradition. He became a leading voice of the " Hell's Kitchen artists" (Elles ķēķis) - a Latvian emigre artist community in the U.S. which flourished in the 1950s and 60s, named after the neighborhood in New York where it originated. In his youth, he was inspired by the Latvian poet Aleksandrs Čaks and later by writers such as Rainer Maria Rilke, Guillaume Apollinaire, Federico García Lorca, and Dylan Thomas. Saliņš' imagery playfully explored transformational and metaphysical elements in this world and beyond, often incorporating his personal experiences with allusions to myth, art, and ancient Latvian folklore - a process he referred to as "orpheism". Gunars Saliņš' poetry was widely circulated within the Latvian diaspora post-WWII; later his work was rediscovered and championed in Latvia in the post-Soviet era. In 2000, Saliņš was awarded the Order of the Three St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunārs Priede
Gunārs Priede (1928–2000) was a Latvian playwright, engineer and architect. He was originally a civil engineer for the Soviet government in Latvia who became the most important Latvian playwright of the Soviet era. He penned numerous dramas and comedies with lyrical, metaphorical and realist qualities, reflecting social conditions in Latvia at the time. He was appointed Writers' Union of Drama Consultant (1958 - 1960), to Riga Film Studio Riga Film Studio ( lv, Rīgas kinostudija, russian: Рижская киностудия, Rizhskaya kinostudiya) is a Latvian film production company based in Riga and founded in 1940 on the basis of the earlier private film companies. In 1948, th ... (1960 - 1964), the Ministry of Culture (1964 - 1965), the Latvian Filmmakers Union Board as secretary (1965 - 1968), secretary of the Writers’ Union (1972 - 1974), secretary the Writers' Union Board (1974 - 1984), the Lenin and USSR State Prize Committee (1975 - 1989), and the Latvian Bret ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunārs Piesis
Gunārs Piesis (19 July 1931 – 9 February 1996) was a Latvian film director. 1931 births 1996 deaths Latvian film directors Soviet film directors Film people from Riga {{Latvia-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunārs Lūsis
Gunārs Lūsis (born 1950) is a Latvian artist and graphical designer. Lūsis is notable for creating the design for some of the modern Latvian coins with denominations in Latvian lats, and for authoring the logo for the Latvian presidency of the Council of the European Union. Life Lūsis was born 18 December 1950 in Riga. He graduated 1968 from the Jānis Rozentāls Art High School and 1974 from the Art Academy of Latvia, Faculty of Design. He is member of the Artists' Union of Latvia () since 1978. During the Soviet era he designed posters and the layout of books. Later he created approximately 70 logos for different institutions and events, like Latvian National Opera Foundation, Song and Dance Festival Riga 800, Cinema Festival Arsenāls, Lido, Riga Stradiņš University etc. Lūsis has, in cooperation with Jānis Strupulis, designed a number of Latvian coins with denominations in Lats dated 1992, the bi-metallic 2 Lats coin dated 1999, variations of the 1 Lats coin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunārs Ķirsons
Gunārs Ķirsons (born 17 May 1951, in Omsk) is a Latvian entrepreneur, businessman and founder of the Latvian chain of restaurants. He is also the president of the Latvian Judo Federation. References 1951 births Living people People from Omsk 20th-century Latvian businesspeople {{Europe-business-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunnar Birkerts
Gunnar Birkerts ( lv, Gunārs Birkerts, January 17, 1925 – August 15, 2017) was a Latvian American architect who, for most of his career, was based in the metropolitan area of Detroit, Michigan. Some of his notable designs include the Corning Museum of Glass and the Corning Fire Station in Corning, New York; Marquette Plaza in Minneapolis, Minnesota; the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Missouri; and the U.S. Embassy in Caracas, Venezuela. In 2014, the National Library of Latvia in Riga was completed to his design. Biography Birkerts was born and raised in Latvia, but escaped ahead of the advancing Soviet army toward the end of the Second World War. He graduated from the Technische Hochschule, Stuttgart, Germany, in 1949. He acknowledged being influenced by Scandinavian tradition and the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto. Birkerts immigrated to the United States that year and worked initially for Perkins and Will, based in Chicago. He moved to the Detroit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gundars
Gundars is a Latvian masculine given name and may refer to: *Gundars Āboliņš (born 1960), Latvian actor * Gundars Bērziņš (born 1959), Latvian accountant and politician * Gundars Bojārs (born 1967), Latvian politician * Gundars Celitāns (born 1985), Latvian volleyball player * Gundars Daudze (born 1965), Latvian physician and politician *Gundars Vētra Gundars Vētra (born May 22, 1967) is a Latvian former professional basketball player and a current coach. He most recently served as a head coach of Spartak St. Petersburg. Standing at , he played at the shooting guard and small forward positio ... (born 1967), Latvian basketball player See also * Gundar (other) {{given name, Gundars Latvian masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunārs Astra
Gunārs Astra (22 October 1931 – 6 April 1988) was a Latvian human rights activist and anti-Soviet dissident arrested by the Soviet Union in 1961 and sentenced to prison for 15 years. He was released in 1976. In 1983, he was arrested again but released several weeks before his death. Biography Gunārs Astra was born in Riga, on 22 October 1931. He graduated primary school and later continued his education in an electromechanical technical school. After graduation in 1952, he started to work in one of the largest electromechanical factories in the Latvian SSR – VEF. Because Astra was a very erudite and industrious worker, he was granted a promotion and became chief of the 7th Radio manufacturing workshop. He also studied the English language in university as an external student. In 1958, Gunārs Astra had the chance to meet American diplomats in Riga. This encounter had a great influence on him in his later life, allowing him to consider Western culture and develop an innate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Given Name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a family or clan) who have a common surname. The term ''given name'' refers to a name usually bestowed at or close to the time of birth, usually by the parents of the newborn. A '' Christian name'' is the first name which is given at baptism, in Christian custom. In informal situations, given names are often used in a familiar and friendly manner. In more formal situations, a person's surname is more commonly used. The idioms 'on a first-name basis' and 'being on first-name terms' refer to the familiarity inherent in addressing someone by their given name. By contrast, a surname (also known as a family name, last name, or '' gentile'' name) is normally inherited and shared with other members of one's immediate family. Regnal names and re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
