The opening of a monument to Hadi Taktash, the Tatar poet, took place in Kazan

(KZN.RU, August 30). The opening of the monument to Hadi Taktash, the Tatar poet, took place in Kazan today, on the Day of the City and the Republic of Tatarstan. Rustam Minnikhanov, the President of the RT, Vasil Shaikhraziev, the deputy prime minister of the RT, Asgat Safarov, the head of the Presidential Administration of the RT, Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan, Danil Salikhov, the chairman of the Union of Writers of the RT, and cultural figures attended the ceremony.

The monument is located in the park at the intersection of Salimzhanov and Hadi Taktash streets. Andrey Balashov, an Honored Artist of the RF, Assiya Minullina, a People's Artist of the RT, and Herman Bakulin, an Honored Architect of the RT, were the authors of the project.

Rustam Minnikhanov congratulated the audience on the Day of the City and the Republic and noted that the monument to Hadi Taktash was established for the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Tatarstan. It is planned to implement a set of measures to perpetuate the memory and popularize the names of prominent creative and public figures of the republic until 2020. Earlier, a monument to Rustem Yakhin, a Tatar composer, pianist, a People's Artist of the USSR, author of the music of the national anthem of the RT, was opened in the park on Bolshaya Krasnaya Street.

“Hadi Taktash is an outstanding writer who made a great contribution to the development of Tatar poetry. He should be an example for young poets”, said the President. The head of the republic specially thanked the sculptors and the city, which picked up a wonderful place to erect the monument.

Then, Rustam Minnikhanov and other participants of the ceremony laid flowers to the monument, reports the press service of the President of the RT.