Solemn inauguration ceremony of President Ho Chi Minh's statue in St. Petersburg (Russian Federation)
(Baonghean.vn) - On the morning of June 30, the Vietnamese Embassy, representatives of the Ho Chi Minh City and St. Petersburg authorities held the inauguration ceremony of the statue of President Ho Chi Minh in St. Petersburg.
Exactly 100 years ago, on June 30, 1923, the patriotic young man Nguyen Ai Quoc first came to the Soviet Union in Petrograd, now St. Petersburg, to find a way to save the country. And here, he found Marxism-Leninism as the path to national liberation. The inauguration of the statue of President Ho Chi Minh in St. Petersburg commemorates this event.
Attending the ceremony were comrades: Nguyen Van Nen - Politburo member, Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee; Nguyen Phuong Nga - President of the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organizations (VUFO); Dang Minh Khoi - Ambassador of Vietnam to the Russian Federation; Major General Trinh Quoc Khanh - Permanent Vice President of the Vietnam - Russian Federation Friendship Association; Do Xuan Hoang - President of the Association of Vietnamese in the Russian Federation; representatives of organizations and unions of the Vietnamese community in the Russian Federation, along with over 500 overseas students and Vietnamese people studying, working and living in St. Petersburg and its surrounding areas.
On the Russian side, there were delegates: Mr. Becglov Alexander Dmitry - Governor of St. Petersburg; Mr. Iaskin Andray Vladimirovich - First Vice Chairman of the Russian Federation Council; representatives of the Russian Veterans Association in Vietnam; the Russia - Vietnam Friendship Association and a large number of people, students and pupils of St. Petersburg and surrounding areas.
Speaking at the ceremony, comrade Nguyen Van Nen highly appreciated the significance of the erection of the statue of President Ho Chi Minh in the "Northern Capital" by the St. Petersburg city government. This is a testament to the warm affection of the Russian people for President Ho Chi Minh, the beloved leader of the Vietnamese people, the national liberator, and an outstanding cultural celebrity. The event has special significance, a beautiful symbol of the traditional friendship between Vietnam and the Russian Federation in general, and St. Petersburg in particular.
Speaking at the ceremony, the delegates also expressed their gratitude to the government and people of St. Petersburg. They especially thanked the engineers and construction workers who did not mind the difficulties of the weather and working conditions to hold today's ceremony, and believed that the location of the statue of President Ho Chi Minh will become a destination attracting many tourists and people of both countries.
The statue of President Ho Chi Minh is located on a large plot of land, at the intersection of Ho Chi Minh Street and Proxvesenhie (Enlightenment) Avenue, in Vyborgsky District. The statue of President Ho Chi Minh faces East with a height of 4.5 m. This is the 5th statue of President Ho Chi Minh in Russia and the second in St. Petersburg (the first statue is located in the Ho Chi Minh Institute campus in the city center).