Monument to the Benefactor

Monument to the Benefactor is located on the Millennium Square in Kazan. The author of the sculptural composition dedicated to the famous Tatarstan patron Asgat Galimzyanov is Asiya Minnullina. The monument was created and installed on the initiative and at the personal expense of the Shaimievs.

The bronze composition depicts a good grandfather in national clothes, leading a horse with a cart on which children sit. The monument weighs about 5 tons, and in length stretched about 7 meters.

Opening the monument, the first President of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiev stressed that the prototype of the Benefactor is a simple Kazan resident with a kind and responsive heart. With his help, orphanages and orphanages of the republic were supplied with new buses, he actively contributed to the victims of the Chernobyl tragedy, the Spitak earthquake, the conflicts of South Ossetia.

For effective charitable activity Galimzyanov was awarded high orders, a gold medal and the title of honorary citizen of the city. The patron was also awarded the International Prize and the Order of Andrew the First-Called for Mercy.