The presidents of Russia and Belarus Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko on 30 June, will take part in the opening of Rzhev of the memorial to Soviet soldiers, informs the press-service of the Kremlin.
As transfers RIA Novosti, the initiators of the monument were veterans of the great Patriotic war, applied to the Committee of the Union state, and search engines of the Russian military historical society (RVIA).
On the basis of open international competition won the project of sculptor and architect Korobtsova Fomin — 25-foot bronze statue of a Soviet soldier, erected on a 10-meter artificial mound.
