In Turkmenbashi a Monument to President of Latvia Ulmanis will be Set
Worldwide, Daily news | ankakh | November 20, 2010 19:26
Monument to the president pre-war Latvia Karlis Ulmanis in the Turkmen city of Turkmenbashi (formerly known as Krasnovodsk) to be installed within two years. This statement was made chairman of the Riga Latvian Society Foundation and the development of national culture Mirdza Stearn, said on Saturday, “Interfax reported.
According to her, the monument will be installed in the city center, which will be divided into urban gardens. Stearn noted that the manufacturer of the monument “to split the world” is still going on, its height will be 3.1 meters. In addition, for the delivery of a monument in Turkmenbashi on the railway is required to collect another 4.9 thousand lats (about 7,000 euros).
Monument Ulmanis was decided to establish the initiative of President Valdis Zatlers. Agreement on its deployment to Turkmenbashi was reached with Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov in October 2008.
Ulmanis, who was previously on several occasions as Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Prime Minister and several others in 1934, gave Latvia a military coup. In 1936, he appointed himself president and prime minister, officially naming at the same time leader and father of the nation. In 1940, after the entry into Latvia by Soviet troops, retired, has worked with the new pro-Soviet government. In the same year he was deported by administrative order via Moscow to Voroshilov (Stavropol), where he was arrested. August 1, 1942 transferred to the city Krasnovodsk (Turkmenbashi), where he died on September 20. Location of his grave remains unknown.
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