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The planned destruction of Warsaw during the Second World War, Poland's national icon Frederic Chopin, the polonaise dance; Łódź – Poland's film industry; Poznań – the last steam-powered commuter train at Wolsztyn; Wrocław – Market Square, Wrocław's dwarfs, the National Rail Carriage Factory; Kraków – milk bar and the Trabant car.
Following the socialist revolution in 1917, a number of Orthodox refugees from Russia fled to Scandinavia, first to Sweden and eventually to Norway. The Eastern Orthodox Church in Russia organized pastoral work among them through the church in Stockholm, founded in 1617. In 1931, St. Nikolai church was established in Oslo.
Vy still uses locomotive hauled passenger trains on a few of the long-distance lines. For this task they use 22 El 18s and 5 Di 4s in addition to six El 17 on the Flåm Line. Most of the cars are B7 on long-distance services and B5 on regional services. Most of the locomotives have been transferred to the freight division CargoNet.
Eastern Orthodoxy in Europe [image reference needed] Serbian Orthodox Monastery of Gračanica The Eastern Orthodoxy in Europe constitutes the second largest Christian denomination. European Eastern Orthodox Christians are predominantly present in Eastern and Southeastern Europe , and they are also significantly represented in diaspora ...
The Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of Scandinavia consists of all the active Eastern Orthodox bishops serving Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Iceland, and representing multiple jurisdictions. It is not, properly speaking, a synod. The Episcopal Assembly of Scandinavia is one of several such bodies around the world which operate in the so ...
Stockholm Metro (Stockholms tunnelbana) is the only metro system in Sweden.. Cities with light rail (trams); Gothenburg: Gothenburg tram – consisting of 190 km on a total track length of 161 km
Rail transport in Sweden uses a network of 10,912 kilometres (6,780 mi), the 24th largest in the world. [3] Construction of the first railway line in Sweden began in 1855. . The major operator of passenger trains has traditionally been the state-owned SJ, though today around 70% of all rail traffic consists of subsidised local and regional trains for which the regional public transport ...
The Orthodox Church of Finland or Finnish Orthodox Church (Finnish: Suomen ortodoksinen kirkko, lit. 'Finnish Orthodox Church'; [2] Swedish: Ortodoxa kyrkan i Finland [3]) is an autonomous Eastern Orthodox archdiocese of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.