Mintimer Shaimiev lays flowers at the monument to the Tatar Poet Gabdulla Tukay

26 April 2020, Sunday

On April 26, on the 134th anniversary of the birth of the great Tatar poet Gabdulla Tukay, at the Gabulla Tukay park in Kazan, a traditional ceremony of laying flowers at the monument to the poet was held. 

Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, State Counsellor of the Republic of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiev and Chairman of the State Council of the Republic of Tatarstan Farid Mukhametshin honored the memory of the classic of Tatar literature.

Because of the epidemiological situation in connection with the coronavirus pandemic, the event was held without a mass gathering.