Moscow (VNA) – A statue of late VietnamesePresident Ho Chi Minh will be erected in Vyborg town, Russia’s SaintPetersburg city, as a stone marking the statue’s location was placed at aceremony on October 8.
The ceremony wasattended by Russian officials, former Soviet military experts who had helpedVietnam during the war against the US, and Russian friends, among others.
In his remarks,Vietnamese Ambassador to Russia Ngo Duc Manh said nearly 100 years ago,President Ho landed in St. Petersburg, formerly knownas Petrograd, as part of his path for national salvation.
The construction of thelate leader’s statue in St. Petersburg holds great political, historical andcultural significance, he said, noting that it will become a symbol for thelong-standing friendship between Vietnam and Russia and St. Petersburg inparticular.
The Vietnamese Embassyis coordinating with St. Petersburg’s authorities and competent agencies of thetwo countries in designing the statue, Manh added.
There are four statues ofPresident Ho Chi Minh in Russia, with the first built in Moscow in 1990 and theothers in Ulyanovsk in 2017, and Vladivostok in 2019. The fourth statue is located withinthe campus of the St. Petersburg University./.