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American city of Portland (OR) became the second sister-city of Khabarovsk. The sister-city agreement with Khabarovsk was signed on the 10th of June 1988.
Portland is a city on the North-West of the USA, it’s a biggest city of the state of Oregon.
The population is 556 thousand people, 2 million people together with agglomeration (24th place in USA). It is located on the bank of the Willamette River.
Portland is an important economic centre of the North-West of the USA. A large port, railroad junction, airport. There are companies of the woodworking, cellulose, metalworking, food industries in the city. Transport and electro-technical machine building is developed.
Nowadays Khabarovsk and Portland are carrying out the projects of humanitarian relationship in arts, exchanging the jazz musical bands, children paintings. Housing and public utilities services managements of the city administration together with the association “Portland-Khabarovsk” is realizing ecological projects on the separation and sorting of rubbish in Khabarovsk and also in the field of engineering consultations and drinking water purification. Portland’s specialists and personnel of the housing and utilities services companies in Khabarovsk are studying the best experience applying it in practice.
Working on the education exchange programs realization Khabarovsk Pedagogical University (FESGU at present) was the first one to sign an agreement on the start of the student and professor exchange with the Lewis and Clark college in Portland.
Since 1990 as per the agreement concluded between Portland State University and Khabarovsk Institute of National Economy (KhSAEaL at present) “Russian-American business management school” opened in Khabarovsk.
In August 2011 X international radio-games took place in Khabarovsk between the sister-cities in which radio lovers from Portland took a part.