Monument to Governor General Sirotkin D.V

The monument to D.V. Sirotkin, the owner of his own steamship business, is installed in Nizhny Novgorod on the favorite place of the philanthropist - the Volga slope.

Dmitry Vasilyevich Sirotkin is a merchant patron, an outstanding public figure. He was born in the Nizhny Novgorod province in 1864 in the family of a peasant who owned two steamers. Since childhood, Dmitry was associated with ship business - he helped his father to work on ships. In 1894, Sirotkin himself became the owner of the steamship business. Thus, he developed a new and very promising direction in business, namely, transportation of petroleum products by river. In the late 90s of the XIX century, Sirotkin built several wooden barges of a new design that amazed contemporaries with their giant size. A coup in shipbuilding barges made created in 1907 barge "Marfa-Posadnitsa".

In 1911, Sirotkin began to implement another grandiose project - he began to replace steamships with diesel engines, thus reducing fuel consumption. Moreover, in 1911, on his initiative, the construction of a new shipyard, called the Nizhny Novgorod Ship, was launched. Today it is one of the most successful shipbuilding enterprises in the region.

The author of the monument to Sirotkin is Viktor Purekhov.