Yeltsin memorial center opens in Ekaterinburg — RT Russian politics
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, foreground, and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev at the ceremony to lay flowers at the memorial for first President of Russia Boris Yeltsin in Yekaterinburg.
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A major memorial center dedicated to Boris Yeltsin has opened in the first Russian president’s native city of Ekaterinburg. The huge three-storied modernist building holds tens of thousands of exhibits, including even a city trolleybus.
The artifacts include the interior of the politician’s Moscow apartment (complete with a TV set showing the Tchaikovsky ballet Swan Lake), the ‘Chaika’ limo that he used as a service car and a real trolleybus that Yeltsin once rode to ask questions of ordinary people. The exhibition also has a lot of multimedia materials and allows visitors to record own video messages expressing attitude to the museum, to Russia’s first president and to 1990s Russia in general.
Yeltsin’s widow and daughter, along with many former officials from his government and administration, have arrived in Ekaterinburg to take part in the opening of the center. President Vladimir Putin also participated in the ceremony, telling reporters that the exhibition looked like “honest history” to him.
