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A new exhibit appeared in the Rostov Regional Museum of Local History and Geography. It is a fragment of the facade wall of the former applied arts factory with a commemorative plaque honoring Vladimir Vysotsky.
In 1975, the Taganka Theater went on a tour to Rostov. Vysotsky received an invitation to visit the applied arts factory from Andrey Bagdasarov, the head of one of its departments. The workshop foreman, Viktor Polikarpov, crafted a plaque to commemorate this event. It was fixed to the factory wall. Lyudmila Skvortsova, a local TV director, claims that this is the first, and lifetime, memorial plaque to Vysotsky in the USSR.
The factory closed in 2017, and the building was to be demolished. Mikhail Goncharov, an activist of the All-Russian Society for the Preservation of Historical and Cultural Monuments, cut out part of the wall to preserve the unique plaque. This fragment weighed 300 kg. Now it will be kept in the museum.
