A memorial sign in honor of People’s Artist of the USSR Mikhail Pugovkin will be installed in Kostroma
YAROSLAVL, November 22 – RIA Novosti. According to the city administration, a memorial sign in honor of the People’s Artist of the USSR Mikhail Pugovkin, a native of Kostroma province, will be installed on the Street of Recognition in Kostroma.
According to the city government, the Alley of Recognition was established on Mira Avenue in 2007, the year Kostroma celebrates its 855th anniversary. Since then, every year on City Day, memorial signs with the names of famous residents of Kostroma and people who have made a significant contribution to the development of the region are opened here. The first to appear on the street were four brass plates bearing the names of Prince Yuri Dolgoruky, Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich Romanov, architects Pyotr Fursov and Kaleria Torop.
In whose name the sign will be erected is determined by voting among the residents of the city. According to the Kostroma administration, this year, it has been proposed to choose a name from among the five candidates that stand out in the fields of religion, science, local history, literary criticism and directing.
“In total, more than 1,700 residents of Kostroma took part in the vote. More than half of those polled were in favor of hanging a memorial sign for Mikhail Ivanovich Pugovkin,” the message said. It was noted that the memorial sign will be installed next year.
Mikhail Pugovkin was born on July 13, 1923 in the village of Rameshki, Chukhloma district, Kostroma province. He played nearly 100 movie roles, especially in The Wedding on Malinovka (1967), Shelmenko the Orderly (1971), Finist the Bright Falcon (1975), Two Captains (1976), New Adventures of Captain Vrungel” (1978), “Oh, vaudeville, vaudeville” (1979), “Egorka” (1984), “Ordered to be taken alive” (1984), “The circus has arrived” (1986), “They sat on the golden porch” (1986), “Visiting the Minotaur” (1987) , “The Artist from Gribov” (1988).
“Badge of Honor” to the artist (1983), IV degree “For Merit to the Fatherland” (2002), Honor (2003), Patriotic War II degree, Zhukov (2004), III degree “For Merit” ( 2007), medals.
Source: Ria
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