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DONETSK, UKRAINE TO IMMORTALIZE IOSIF KOBZON AND EPHIM ZVYAGILSKIY
  

OBOZREVATEL Internet Newspaper
Kyiv, Ukraine
January 17, 2003

 

Donetsk authorities decided to put a monument for Kobzon and to rename Savchenko's Street to Ephim Zvyagilskiy Street.

"Donetsk Association" will finance Kobzon's monument. As charity fund "Golden Skipf" reports, famous Moscow sculptor Oleksandr Rukavishnikov agreed to work on it.

The Kobzon monument will be opened in the autumn 2003.


OBOZREVATEL Internet Newspaper
http://www.obozrevatel.com.ua/eng/news.php?id=71716


NOTE:

One can find spellings such as Yosyp Kobzon, Iosif Kobzon, Josef Kobzon Josiph Kobzon and Yosif Kobzon for the Soviet (Russian)(Ukrainian) pop singer who lives in Moscow. He is called the "Soviet Frank Sinatra. "

One can find spellings such as Yefim Zvyagilskiy, Yukhym Zvygilsky, Ephim Zvyagilskiy, Yukhim Zvyagilsky and Efim Zvyagilskiy for the former prime minister, coal magnate, and now a pro-presidential member of the Ukrainian parliament.
 
 

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