The authorities of Tighina (Bender) town decided to build a monument in the memory of the Russian general Aleksandr Lebed’. The place where this monument is going to be installed has been found, DECA-press Agency transmits.
Lebed’'s monument will be installed in a square, at the entrance of Tighina from the part of Tiraspol town.
The initiative of installing a monument in the honour of general Lebed’ belongs to the organization „Onoare si patrie”, created by the dead general, as „Novai reghion” said.
Aleksandr Lebed’ conducted between 1992-95, the 14th Army from Russia, installed in the Transnistrian region. In 1996, he ran for the president of Russia, and got the third place. In 1998, he has become governor of Krasnoyarsk region. He died in April 2002, in an avia catastrophe. // DECA-Press


Publication date: 29 January 2008   

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