The ceremony was also attended by Acting Governor of the Kemerovo Region Sergei Tsivilev and Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Siberian Federal District Sergei Menyailo.
The memorial by Ernst Neizvestny was unveiled on the eve of Miners’ Day, August 28, 2003, at the site where coal was discovered in 1721.
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August 27, 2018