Nikolai Ostapenko is remembered in Pridnestrovie

Deputy of the Supreme Council of the first convocation Nikolai Ostapenko would have turned 70 years old on December 15. He became a victim of Moldovan nationalists from the Bujor group in 1992. He died on April 30 after receiving wounds.

A commemorative event took place today at the grave of Nikolai Ostapenko at the Glory Memorial in Tiraspol. Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic Galina Antyufeyeva, deputy for the Slobodzeya district Pavel Shinkaryuk, the First President of the PMR Igor Smirnov, representatives of the Administration of the President and the Government, the leadership of the state administration and the district city council of the Slobodzeya district and the city of Slobodzeya friends and associates of Nikolai Ostapenko came to pay tribute to the memory of the deputy of the first convocation and the defender of Pridnestrovie.

Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic Galina Antyufeyeva emphasized that Nikolai Ivanovich was a man with a capital letter.

Nikolai Ostapenko made a great contribution to the political and economic development of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic. He actively participated in the work of the Provisional Supreme Council of the PMSSR and its Presidium, and was a member of the commission for the development of the first Constitution of the PMR, Deputy of the Supreme Council of the PMR (1st convocation), chairman of the village council of the village of Kitskany, since 1991 - Slobodzeya district executive committee and district Council of People's Deputies.

According to Vasily Vasilyevich Tishenko, Nikolai Ostapenko was the first to sense the onset of nationalism in Pridnestrovie, and later became its victim.

Friends and leaders of the Slobodzeya district in the morning laid fresh flowers at the memorial plaque of Nikolai Ostapenko, which is installed on the facade of the district state administration building, as well as at the obelisk installed at the site of his tragic death at the hands of Moldovan nationalists.

Based on information from the website of the state administration of Slobodzeya and Slobodzeya district.