VSUES president is one of the sponsors of a monument to the founder of Vladivostok
During the festivities devoted to the Town Day on the 2nd of July a monument to the first governor general of Eastern Siberia, count Nikolai Muravyev-Amursky was unveiled in Vladivostok. The monument is located in a public garden slightly above the Primorski drama theater named after Gorky.
The prime minister of the RF Dmitry Medvedev, mayor of Vladivostok Igor Pushkarev and other known public men and politicians took part in the ceremony of unveiling the monument. The monument was created with public money. One of the sponsors was the VSUES president, professor, member of the House of Assembly of Primorski krai Gennady Lazarev:
- Social responsibility is very important. It starts with responsibility owed to one’s fellow countrymen. Our university and me personally take an active part in the development of the city including urban land improvement, patronage of orphanages and veterans, benefit concerts, voluntary activity, extension of all scientific, sports and creative resources of the university for the residents of the city and the region. That is why I could not but answer the call to give money for the monument to the person who had founded our city.
Four-meter high bronze statue of the governor general of Eastern Siberia with a scroll in the hand overlooks the Golden Horn bay. The scroll represents the Igunsky agreement that allowed Russia to receive a huge part of the Amur River region. An important element of the memorial is a renovated granite sarcophagus over the place where the remains of the count slumber.
