Monuments as gifts for Russian cities

In September 2010 the Yaroslavl’s Millennium monument was unveiled in Yaroslavl. The monument construction was sponsored by Gazprom.

It represents a 22 meter stele surrounded by five bronze figures (Grand Prince Yaroslav the Wise, Patriarch Tikhon, collective characters of a Citizen, a Mother with her Child and a Warrior) and crowned with a bronze double-headed eagle – the State Emblem of Russia. Thematic panels dedicated to the history of Yaroslavl are disposed in the central part of the monument.

The monument is located in the historic part of the city at the embankment section restored by Gazprom. Three “singing” fountains are installed at the embankment as well.

This is not the first gift made by Gazprom to Russian cities on their birthdays. Thus, on the threshold of Surgut’s 416th anniversary Gazprom transgaz Surgut gave the monument to Ermak Timofeevich, the Russian Cossack Chieftain and the conqueror of Siberia, to the city as a present. The bronze monument was fully paid for by Gazprom transgaz Surgut.

Gazprom not only builds new monuments, but also participates in restoring the existing ones. In late 2010 a decision was taken to restore the historical monument to the Russian mariner and explorer Grigory Shelikhov in Irkutsk. The monument comprises a five-meter white marble obelisk decorated with the bronze bas-relief of Grigory Shelikhov, images of maps, a compass, bales with goods, a court sword and a handwritten scroll. The monument was mounted on the Grigory Shelikhov grave back in 1800 and has never been restored for two hundred years.