Riga City Council committee approves raising monument to Konstantins Cakste on Brivibas Boulevard
The Riga City Council^apostrofs;s City Development Committee today approved raising a monument to Konstantins Cakste, the leader of the national resistance movement at the beginning of the 1940s, at the end of the Brivibas Boulevard island at Elizabetes Street, the Riga City Council^apostrofs;s Information and Public Relations Department told LETA.
The Riga City Council's City Development Committee today approved raising a monument to Konstantins Cakste, the leader of the national resistance movement at the beginning of the 1940s, at the end of the Brivibas Boulevard island at Elizabetes Street, the Riga City Council's Information and Public Relations Department told LETA.
The Riga City Council is to adopt the final decision. The committee's draft decree says that an initiative group for the monument will assume all expenditures on creating and erecting the monument.
The Riga City Council's Monument Council backed in principle the idea of raising a monument to Cakste during its meeting on November 14.
The idea of raising a monument to Cakste was proposed by a group of prominent member of the Latvian community. The project has received enthusiastic support.
Both President Vaira Vike-Freiberga and Riga Mayor Gundars Bojars have said they backed erecting a monument to Cakste.
The group that proposed raising a monument to Cakste decided on November 4 to launch an open competition for the best project, 10 sculptors were invited.
Invited were the world-famous Finnish sculptor Eila Hiltunen, who has created the monument to Jean Sibelius in Helsinki and other outstanding sculptures, as well as Lithuanian sculptor Roberts Antinis and local sculptors Valts Barkans, Janis Karlovs, Viktorija Pelse, Vilnis Titans, Andris Varpa, Ligita Ulmane, Glebs Pantelejevs and Olga Silova.
Dainis Mikelsons LETA
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The Riga City Council is to adopt the final decision. The committee's draft decree says that an initiative group for the monument will assume all expenditures on creating and erecting the monument.
The Riga City Council's Monument Council backed in principle the idea of raising a monument to Cakste during its meeting on November 14.
The idea of raising a monument to Cakste was proposed by a group of prominent member of the Latvian community. The project has received enthusiastic support.
Both President Vaira Vike-Freiberga and Riga Mayor Gundars Bojars have said they backed erecting a monument to Cakste.
The group that proposed raising a monument to Cakste decided on November 4 to launch an open competition for the best project, 10 sculptors were invited.
Invited were the world-famous Finnish sculptor Eila Hiltunen, who has created the monument to Jean Sibelius in Helsinki and other outstanding sculptures, as well as Lithuanian sculptor Roberts Antinis and local sculptors Valts Barkans, Janis Karlovs, Viktorija Pelse, Vilnis Titans, Andris Varpa, Ligita Ulmane, Glebs Pantelejevs and Olga Silova.
Dainis Mikelsons LETA
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