The place: the old town of Yakutsk.
Event: The opening day of the old town, the fall of 2006.
Mr. Zuev's note: A new understanding of history and traditions have come when people have learnt not only to fix their eyes at the future but to estimate the past at its true worth… Old Yakutsk also experienced that lot to follow that hard and long way to its resurrection. In 1991, on the instructions of Pavel Borodin, the first Mayor of Yakutsk, and Semion Nazarov, Yakutsk Chief Architect, a group of historians and architects developed a historical concept of building up some protected zones, namely: Old Town and Zalog... In 1999, when Vyacheslav Shtyrov was President of ALROSA company, he assigned large means for reconstruction of Grado-Preobrazhenskaya church and Kruzhalo trading center. In 2002 this historical district was taken completely under President’s wing... Finally, this long-expected moment has come – the Old Town has come alive, begun to speak and even to sing and dance!..