Penza, 25 August 2014. PenzaNews. A memorial plaque to Vladimir Zastrozhniy, Honored Cultural Worker of Russia, honorary citizen of Penza, poet and film director, was revealed on house No.8, Moskovskaya Street, on Monday, August 25.

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The ceremony was attended by relatives of the famous Penza author, as well as those touched by his work.

Addressing the participants of the event, Kirill Zastrozhniy, deputy chief of the department of culture and the archive of the Penza region, noted that the location for the memorial plaque was not selected simply by chance.

“There was a folk art center here from 1960 to 2000. In the second half of the 1950s, Oktyabr Grishin started coming here. And songs began here. Many prominent people worked in this center. It was truly the center of folk art, and a single man— Vladimir Zastrozhniy — had been its core and its spine for many decades,” he said.

The plaque was created by sculptor Vladimir Trulov from Moscow.

After the opening ceremony, people laid flowers by the plaque and read the poems by the author.