By: Stig Kristoffersen

The boy’s and girl’s name Kristian \k-ris-tian, kr(i)-stian\ is pronounced KRIS-t’-yun. It is of Scandinavian origin. Variant of Christian (Greek) ”anointed Christian”.Other meanings of the name is the follower of Christ, or follows Christ.

Kristian has 3 variant forms: Krist, Kristan and Kristien.

Baby names that sound like Kristian are Krystian and Cristian.

Kristian is a very rare male first name and a very rare surname in the USA (source: 1990 U.S. Census). In Scandinavia it is used pretty often, as well as it is found used in Northern European countries like Germany, France and Greece.

Kristian can also be found in different variations, dependant upon which country it is used:

Kristian (Danish)

Kristian (Norwegian)

Kristian (English)

Kristian (Greek)

Kristian (Scandinavian)

There are lots of variations with the same meaning as Kristian:

Christien (French)

Cretien (French)

Christian (Greek)

Christiano (Greek)

Cretien (Greek)

Khrystiyanr (Greek)

Krischanr (Greek)

Krzysztofr (Greek)

Carsten (Latin)

Carston (Latin)

Christiann (Latin)

Cristiano (Latin)

Kerstan (Latin)

Christie (Scottish)

Christy (Scottish)

Kersten (Slavic)

Cristiano (Spanish)

Kfister (Swedish)

Krist (Swedish)

Kristar (Swedish)

Krystiyan (Ukrainian)

Crist (Welsh)

Some famous persons having Kristian as their first or middle name

Kristian Solmer Vedel (March 2, 1923 – March 5, 2003) was a Danish industrial designer and part of the Scandinavian Design movement.

Kristian Hellström (July 24, 1880 – June 14, 1946) was a Swedish athlete who competed mainly in the 1500 metres.

Strachkvas (Kristián) (28 September 929 or 935, Prague – 996, Prague) was a prince of Bohemia, son of Boleslav I and brother of Boleslav II, member of the P?emyslid dynasty. A clergyman, he finally became the Bishop of Prague but died during consecration.

Kristian Peter Pless (born February 9, 1981 in Odense, Denmark) is a professional male tennis player from Denmark.

Kristian Birkeland (December 13, 1867 – June 15, 1917) was born in Christiania (Oslo today) and wrote his first scientific paper at the age of 18. He organized several expeditions to Norway’s high-latitude regions where he established a network of observatories under the auroral regions to collect magnetic field data. The results of the Norwegian Polar Expedition conducted from 1899 to 1900 contained the first determination of the global pattern of electric currents in the polar region from ground magnetic field measurements. The discovery of X-rays inspired Birkeland to develop vacuum chambers to study the influence of magnets on cathode rays. An example of one of his experiments is depicted on the left front of the bank note. It shows a magnetized terrella, simulating the Earth, suspended in an evacuated box. Birkeland noticed that an electron beam directed toward the terrella was guided toward the magnetic poles and produced rings of light around the poles and concluded that the aurora could be produced in a similar way. He developed a theory in which energetic electrons were ejected from sunspots on the solar surface, directed to the Earth, and guided to the Earth’s polar regions by the geomagnetic field where they produced the visible aurora. Birkeland was nominated for the Nobel Prize no less than seven times.

Kristian Lundin (born May 7, 1973) is a Swedish composer, music producer and songwriter.

David Kristian (born November 5, 1967) is a Canadian musician and film score composer.

Kristian Ghedina (born November 20, 1969) is an Italian former Alpine skier, currently a car racer. He was the most victorious downhill specialist ever for Italy in the Alpine skiing World Cup.

Kristian-Joy Alfonso (born September 5, 1963 in Brockton, Massachusetts) is an American soap opera actress.

Kristian Huselius (born November 10, 1978 in Österhaninge, Sweden) is a professional ice hockey player.

Lauri Kristian Relander (May 31, 1883 – February 9, 1942) was the second President of Finland (1925-1931). A prominent member of the Agrarian League, he served as a member of Parliament, and as Speaker, before his election as President.

Kristian Schmid (born in Victoria on November 28, 1974) is an Australian actor who first appeared as Todd Landers in the popular Australian soap opera Neighbours. Later he starred as Adam Newman in the 1990s remake of The Tomorrow People. While on a four year work permit in the UK he made appearances on several UK television shows, he was voted by the public to be covered in gunge and slime on Noel’s House Party, and two years later had to sit under a large nose emitting pretend ’snot’ on kids show Gimme 5.

Kristian Hoffman is an American musician. His sister is writer Nina Kiriki Hoffman.

”Kong Kristian” (King Christian), or ”Kongesangen” (The King’s Song), is the royal anthem of Denmark. Composed by Ditlev Ludvig Rogert and adopted in 1780, it is one of the oldest in the world. The lyrics first appeared in 1779, in Johannes Ewald’s historical drama, The Fishermen. It is often mixed with the civil national anthems of Denmark, ”Der er et yndigt land”.

The music was composed by Friedrich Kuhlau in 1828 for the play Elverhøj.

”Kong Kristian” is performed only in relations to the royal family, and normally only the first verse is played or sung. ”Der er et yndigt land”, which is solely a civic national anthem, is used in every other national occasions.

Kristian Sarkies (born October 25, 1986 in Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian football (soccer) player who plays in midfield for Adelaide United as part of the A-League. Sarkies grew up in Dingley Village, a suburb in Melbourne’s South-East. Upon scoring his first A-League goal, Sarkies handsignaled Dingley’s postcode (3172) in his celebration.

Kristian Niemann is a guitarist, member of Therion, Lithium and Demonoid bands. He studied jazz at Musicians Institute. In 1996 his song ”Industrial Type Thang” was featured in JSR Records’ compilation Hottest Unknown Guitarists. His style of playing mostly centers around legato and sweep picking. He is also brother of Johan Niemann.

Kristian Valen is a Norwegian comedian and popstar. He was born on the 13th October, 1974, in Stavanger in Western Norway. He started his career in radio, and has now had two TV-programs and released one CD.

Kristian Hargreaves was a fictional character on the long-running Channel 4 British television soap opera Hollyoaks.

He was played by actor Max Brown between 2002-2004.

Kristian Merrill Bush (born March 14, 1970) is a singer/songwriter. He was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. He is the guitar/mandolin player, singer and songwriter of the Grammy-nominated country music duo Sugarland. Previously, Bush was a member of the Atlanta-based musical duo Billy Pilgrim.

Ole Kristian Furuseth (born January 7, 1967) is a Norwegian former Alpine skier. He won his first World Cup victory in Furano in 1989 and his final World Cup victory in Bormio in 2000. Furuseth won a bronze medal in the slalom competition at the 1991 World Championships in Saalbach. He won a silver medal at the 1998 Olympics in Nagano. He retired as an alpine skier in 2002. Furuseth has nine World Cup victories three in Giant Slalom and six in Slalom

Kristian Schultze is one half of the German New Age band Cusco. Schultze has partnered up with Michael Holm and the two have produced numerous new age albums. However, Schultze is less prominent of the duo, as Holm has been leading figure in the band’s composition. The two met in late 1970s where they discovered they shared a similar interest in pre-colonial America.

Kristian Menchaca (May 29, 1983–June 19, 2006), Brownsville, Texas, was a United States Private First Class of the U.S. Army. He was married to Christina Menchaca of Big Spring in September 2005, before he was deployed to Iraq.

Kristian Wåhlin (born 1971 in Gothenburg, Sweden) is a Swedish musician, graphic designer, and album cover artist for many bands in the extreme metal scene worldwide.

Christian II (July 1, 1481 – January 25, 1559) was a Danish monarch and King of Denmark, Norway (1513 – 1523) and Sweden (1520 – 1521), under the Kalmar Union. Christian was born the son of King Hans of Denmark and Christina of Saxony, at Nyborg Castle in 1481 and succeeded his father as king and regent in Denmark and Norway, where he later was to be succeeded by his uncle King Frederick I of Denmark. In Sweden, he was, as a result of his conquest of Sweden and his involvement in the Stockholm Bloodbath, to be remembered as Christian the Tyrant

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By: Wolfgang Jaegel

Harbin is one of the most popular tourist spots in China. Situated in the heart of the north-eastern Asian economic region and along the eastern region of the Songhuajiang – Nenjiang Plain, Harbin is the largest as well as the capital city of the Heilongjiang – the country’s northernmost province. Bestowed with the title of the ’Oriental Moscow,’ Harbin also serves as the economic, cultural, educational, and political center of the province.

Sprawling over an area of about 18500 square kilometers, Harbin has Lanxi County and Zhaodong in the north-west, Shuangcheng and Wuchang in the south-west, and Shangzhi and Bayan and Mulan counties in the south-east.

Further, Harbin is just about 300 miles away from the extremely cold seaport of Russia, namely, Vladivostok. Harbin is especially well known for two things, one for its cold temperature, which may sometimes plummets to forty below zero, and another for its much famed International Ice and Snow Festival that is held annually. In winter, Harbin becomes truly becomes a paradise filled with ice and snow. Hence, it is not a wonder why Harbin has been sometimes referred to as ’the Ice City.’

The Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival officially begins from January 5th every year and lasts for about a month. Sometimes, the festival may even last for more than a month, depending upon the weather. Established in 1985 as a simple festival, the Ice and Snow Festival has now transformed into an event of international standards.

In other words, this festival is one of the largest as well as unique of its kind in the world. It is one of the four prominent global ice and snow festivals, others being Sapporo Snow Festival of Japan, the Oslo Snow Festival of Norway, and Quebec Winter Carnival of Canada. Further, the festival has utilized the usage of ice as well as snow available in the region at its best. A host of events are conducted during the ice and snow festival, such as, fabulous fireworks display, ice hockey competitions, winter swimming, skiing and speed skating events, football games on expansive snow grounds, poetry jamboree, and ice and snow cinematic festival.

However, the focal point of the festival is Zhaolin Park, located next to the Songhua River, in central Harbin. Named in honor of a general buried in the park, Zhaolin Park contains an array of exquisite sculptures that are carved out from ice. All of the carvings are noted for their exquisite designs, ranging from figures of human, animal, and birds to mythical as well as historic and political characters and figurines of world renowned attractions such as the Great Wall of China, the Eiffel Tower, and Taj Mahal.

Among the highlights of the festival are Sun Island Carving Festival, Ice and Snow World, Harbin Ice Festival, and Ice Lantern Festival. Sun Island Carving Festival allows you to indulge in an array of activities. In the case of Ice and Snow World, it has been acknowledged as the world’s ice Disneyland. When comes to the Ice Lantern Art Fair, the events in connection with the festival date back to the period of the Ming and Qing dynasties, which is about 500 years ago.

Al though it was started by hunters of the region during the winter, later in 1963, Harbin’s Mayor decided to organize formal competition in order to encourage skilled people to create several artistic works. Several magnificent ice lanterns are displayed during the event, ranging from calligraphy and miniature gardens to waterfalls and flowers.

During the festival, tourists from every nook and corner of the world come here to take part in this unique festival. The prime highlight of the festival is undoubtedly ice sculptor contest, in which talented, professional ice sculptors from across the world take part, among which some work alone while some work in group.

In this contest, the sculptors transform huge blocks of ice into beautiful works of art of different sizes, themes, and shapes. All of these carvings are simply stupendous during the day times. They are even breathtaking during the night when all of them are exquisitely lit with hundreds and thousands of neon lights. In short, the Zhaolin Park becomes truly spectacular due to its unique as well as incredible icy creations.

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