On October 31, 1899, the cruiser "Variag" was launched. The cruiser "Varyag", a legend of the Russian Navy, was built at the William Crump and Sons shipyard in Philadelphia by order of the Russian Empire and launched from the stock of the Philadelphia docks on October 31, 1967, in the center of Donetsk, a monument to V.I. Lenin was erected in the square named after him. The blueprint of the monument was approved in 1965. statue. Eduard Kuncevich (Kyiv). Architect - Nikolai Ivanchenko (Kyiv). One of the authors of the Ukrainian SSR Pavilion at the VDNKh in Moscow. 836.15 thousand rubles were spent on the construction of the monument. To create a status similar to a lump of coal, the Georgian SSR sacrificed its border on granite, with which the authorities of the Donetsk region managed to reach an agreement. Lenin "looks" at Artema Street, along which parades and demonstrations are taking place in Donetsk. At the opening of the monument, the cadets of the Institute for Higher Education in the Far East marched in a solemn march. The report was received by the First Secretary of the Donetsk Regional Party Committee, Vladimir Degtyarev. The monument was nominated for the State Prize in 1970, but lost to the equestrian statue of Salavat Yulaev in Ufa on October 31, the International Black Sea Day every year since 1996, when the six Black Sea countries, Bulgaria, Georgia, Russia, Romania, Turkey and Ukraine, signed the Strategic Action Plan for the Restoration and Protection of the Black Sea. So it was decided to establish the environmental holiday for today news | discuss.