September 2001

New Lermontov Sister City Chairperson Lisa
Sergienko (third from the left) shown with former Sister City Chairs Olga Shaposhnikova and Nadeszda Astakhova. Also shown is Pavel S. Anikin, computer specialist for Lermontov Sister City. Thank you to Olga and Nadeszda for their work in the past and a welcome to Lisa Sergienko from the Osage Sister City Organization. (Pavel Anikin photo)

July 2001

Three young women from Lermontov area, from top to bottom, Vilena Baranova, Nadya Galich and Angelina Vasilieva. (Press-News photo). The three are recent graduates of the State Linguistic University in Pyatigorsk . They are working at Fox River Mills for the summer. Nadya Galich was a member of the 1996 Osage/Lermontov Youth Exchange. They are participating in the program "Work and Travel USA" which is part of the Council on International Educational Exchange.
They plan to work until the end of September and then travel in the USA.

April 2001
The governor of Stavropol Krai, Alexander Chernogorov, and his delegation spent Thursday, April 26th in Osage.  Delegation members were:
Ioury Tyrtychov,  Minister of Communal Construction Industry , Nikolai Kovalev , Minister of Environmental Protection, Petr Fedossov, Head of Cossack Community , Anatoli
Tartychev, Governor's Press Secretary,
and Yury Prachev, Assistant to the Governor.
The delegation was hosted at a luncheon at the Maple Inn, toured Osage's wastewater treatment plant, Fox River Mills, and attended a reception at Debbie's Café.
This is the governor's second visit to Iowa in four years. He is currently serving his second five year term. The governor said he hopes "for more exchanges and delegations visits" between Iowa and the Krai "to better understand and to communicate with each other." "I wish to see the (sister state) relations grow each year, so that our grandchildren can enjoy such meetings in Iowa and Russia."  More photos of the delegation visit.

Read the complete story in the archives of The Mitchell County Press News. Photo above courtesy of the Mitchell County Press News : Osage Mayor Steve Cooper, right, receives a handmade porcelain clock, a gift to the city of Osage from Alexander Chernogorov, the governor of Stavropol Krai.

December 2000
Elena Danishevskya and friend on vacation in Laguna  Beach California during Christmas break,. Elena is  attending graduate school at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. Photo submitted by Lena