Talk:Daugavpils

message: Please explain the meaning. mikka (t) 21:17, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Done -- thanks for pointing that out! I hope to expand this article substantially soon (until then I'd left the names as they were, but thanks for fixing that, too... I suppose that all of the historical names should be dated, e.g., it was called Dvinsk 1893-1920.) --Pēteris Cedriņš 06:32, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Would you also provide us with recent photo's of the city, like you did on virtualtourist.com? (I found them, and you, while looking for additional information to expand my Daugavpils-article on Wikipedia.nl). Paldies! Fransvannes 21:17, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Sure, I'd be glad to! I am completely inept at formatting photos for articles, though. So what I'll do is GNU license them, post them, and list them here on the talk page, so that someone who understands layout can insert them. --Pēteris Cedriņš 09:50, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: "Saules" school

message: This should be edited, to my mind -- that Latvian is the official language in schools is completely untrue (there are only two and a half Latvian-language secondary schools, for example, and the education reform which calls for increased teaching in Latvian in minority schools has actually created very little "tension" here, comparatively, that term being a pretty meaningless generalization). Also, a strong majority of Daugavpils Russians holds citizenship by descent. I don't doubt that not a few Russophones aren't fond of the language laws or the citizenship laws, but this is overly vague as written. --Pēteris Cedriņš 11:21, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Just a note -- this article gets worse and worse -- the Russian-speaking majority in Daugavpils, which has demanded that Russian be restored as an official language alongside Latvian ...a "majority" "demanded"? How and when, and in what context? --Pēteris Cedriņš 22:11, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Paragraph on "tension"

message: But the article does not say why. Any good reason? Philaweb T 22:43, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It was a separate town, not a village, in fact. Anyways, article for Grīva (according to its current status) is welcomed. —Glebchik (talk) 12:51, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grīva redirects here 

message: Please elaborate, I don't think that's right. 80.230.81.52 (talk) 12:32, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: fierce jewish resistence?

message: The remark that most ethnic Russians came to Daugavpils during the occupation and are non-citizens is factually incorrect; at registration in 1992, there were 39 988 ethnic Russians with Latvian citizenship and 27 058 without it; most ethnic Russians in Daugavpils hold citizenship by descent, and not a few others have since naturalized. 
: It's not actually true. According to the 1893 census Russians were the second biggest nationality in the city (28%) after the Jews (46%). Latvians were a minority with 1.8% of the total population. —Glebchik (talk) 12:57, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Language, demographics, etc.

message: The Germans regauged the Russian gauge 1524 mm Vilna - Dvinsk (Dünaburg) main line to standard
West European gauge 1435 mm in 1917. In addition they built during World War One standard gauge
railway from Lithuanian Radviliskis to Griva (188 km). The Polish troops helped Latvians to drive out the Bolsheviks from Daugavpils in 1920. Up to 23.08.1939 there was a daily through express train service running between Berlin Stadtbahn and Daugavpils via Königsberg, Insterburg, Tilsit, Jonatiskis, Radviliskis, Panevesys, Obeliai (passport and custom control, Lithuania), Eglaine  (passport and custom control, Latvia). The direct express train departed from Berlin Friedrichstrasse at 23.42 from Königsberg at 08.15, from Insterburg at 09.21, from Tilsit at 10.29, from Radviliskis at 13.43 from Panevesys at 14.39 arriving to Obeliai at 16.20. The Central European Time (GMT + 1) was in use to Obeliai. The train departured from Obeliai at 16.30 and arrived to Eglaine at 18.00 East European Time (GMT + 2). Eglaine stop was only 10 minutes and the express train stopped at Griva at 18.48 funally arriving to Daugavpils at 19.00. At Daugavpils the eastbound passengers changed to Riga - Vitebsk - Smolensk - Moscow broad gauge train which departured from Daugavpils at 19.27 arriving to Moscow next day at 14.00 Moscow Time (GMT + 3).
On the westbound journey the Moscow - Smolensk - Vitebsk - Daugavpils - Riga train departured from Moscow at 20.30 arriving to Daugavpils next day at 13.05. The standard gauge express train to Berlin departured from Daugavpils at 13.35, from Griva at 13.56, from Eglaine at 14.33, from Obeliai at 14.17, from Panevesys at 16.04, from Radviliskis at 17.12, arriving to Tilsit at 20.26, arriving to Insterburg at 21.17, arriving to Königsberg at 22.23, arriving to Berlin Friedrichstrasse at 07.10.
In addition three Polish standard gauge trains arrived to Daugavpils from Warszawa and Wilno via Turmontas (Polish passport and custom control), Zemgale (Latvian passport and custom control), with stop at Griva. These trains arrived daily to Daugavpils at 03.20, (connection to Riga, departure at 03.37), 13.11 (connection to Riga, departure at 13.35), and 19.41 (connection to Riga and Tallinn, departure at 19.52). The Warszawa bound trains departured daily from Daugavpils at 05.00 (connection from Riga at 00.20), 13.15 (connection from Riga and Tallinn at 07.13, and 19.33 (connection from Riga at 15.50). It can be said Daugavpils was part of internal European railway network up to 22.08.1939. 
Even in Imperial Russia´s period there were three daily express trains running between St.Petersburg and Verzhbolovo via Dvinsk and Vilna in both directions. All these express trains had connection to German express trains at Verzhbolovo / Eydkuhnen forming fast train connections to Berlin and Paris. Nothing is mentioned of this important role in Daugavpils history. Peharps it was forgotten to mention in Soviet days.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.113.117.142 (talk) 16:30, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Daugavpils, the end station of standard gauge 1435 mm railway in Latvia 

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