The Monument to Boris Yeltsin in Novodevichie cemetery. A shot of Vesti 24 TV Channel.
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Monument to Boris Yeltsin Opened in Moscow
The monument to Russia’s first president Boris Yeltsin was inaugurated in Novodevichie cemetery, Moscow, Vesti TV Channel reported. Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and President-elect Dmitry Medvedev attended the ceremony.
Boris Yeltsin died April 23, 2007, when he was 76. The monument, a steaming tricolor flag, was created by sculptor Georgy Frangulyan by request of the family of Russia's first president. Frangulyan is also the creator of monuments to Peter I (Antwerp), Alexander Pushkin (Brussels), Empress Elizabeth (Baltiisk), Bulat Okudzhava (Moscow) and Aram Khachaturyan (Moscow) and of the Crucifixion Sculpture in St. Francis Cathedral in Italian Ravenna.
Yeltsin’s name was crowned with immortality in Ekaterinburg, where he had studied and worked for the party for a long time. There is Boris Yeltsin Street there and his name was given to the Ural State Technological University.
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