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On July 21, by Presidential Decree, in connection with the 1100th anniversary of the founding of Pskov, the Mayor of the city Mikhail Horonen and the chairman of the Pskov Regional Council of War Veterans Ivan Vasiliev were awarded the Order of Honor, the choirmaster of the Pskov Russian Folk Choir Nikolai Mishukov was awarded the Order of Friendship, and the medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" II degree - Director of the Pskov Museum-Reserve Olga Volochkova. / PLN

On July 22, Mikhail Zurabov, Chairman of the Board of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation, visited Pskov. Mikhail Zurabov and Governor Yevgeny Mikhailov signed an agreement on paying medical services to non-working pensioners in the Pskov Region, for which the Pension Fund allocates an additional 32 million rubles. / PAI

On July 22 Kauko Jamsen, Consul General of Finland in St. Petersburg, visited Pskov. At a meeting with Deputy Governor Dmitry Shakhov, issues of cooperation between Finland and the Pskov region were discussed, in particular, in the deep processing of timber and the production of paper products, and the development of the tourism industry. / PAI

On July 22, in Pskov, in the square of sister cities, foreign guests who arrived for the holiday planted trees to commemorate the 1100th anniversary of the first mention of Pskov in the annals. Mayors of Bialystok Ryszard Tur and Norrtelier Christer Kendal, together with Mayor of Pskov Mikhail Horonen, planted red apple trees near the memorial stones dedicated to the sister cities. / PLN

On July 22, 300 families of servicemen of the 76th Airborne Division received keys to new apartments. Until the end of 2003, 6 houses will be commissioned, and in the next - 9 more houses. 2115 apartments according to the project of the Ministry of Defense should be received in the next two years by ensigns and officers of the Pskov airborne division. 600 officers remain in the 76th Airborne Division without their own housing. / PAI

On July 22, the building of the railway station was opened in Pskov after repairs. The ceremony was attended by Governor Yevgeny Mikhailov, Mayor of Pskov Mikhail Khoronen, Head of the Pskov Directorate for Passenger Services Igor Debush, First Deputy Head of the Oktyabrskaya Railway Vasily Golubtsov. All work will be completed in August. / PAI

On July 23, the third cooperation agreement was signed between the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation (represented by First Deputy Minister Natalya Dementieva) and the Pskov Region. The first was signed in connection with the celebration of the 200th anniversary of A. S. Pushkin and the Day of Slavic Literature and Culture; the second agreement was dedicated to the 1100th anniversary of Pskov. As part of the third agreement, work will continue with the complex on Romanova Gorka, work will be completed on the museum complex, the depository, and the regional library for the blind. / PAI

The Pskov region will receive a loan of 130 million rubles. to prepare for the winter heating season, on the basis of a decree of the Government of the Russian Federation. In total, 5.5 billion rubles were allocated to the subjects of the Federation for these purposes. / PAI

On July 28, a delegation of the Italian company Busi Impianti S.p.A. arrived in Pskov on a working visit. led by the head of the company's representative office in Moscow, Ankori Flavio. The visit is connected with the work on a joint project to equip the operating rooms of the regional hospital with a modern air purification system that will be able to maintain the required temperature, pressure, and air speed. / PAI

On July 22, Governor Yevgeny Mikhailov presented awards to the regional administration for the best research work on local history and the history of Pskov and the Pskov region. The awards were established in order to attract the attention of scientists, local historians, and the general public to research, study and popularization of the history of Pskov and the Pskov region. More than 20 works were submitted for the competition. / PAI

The winners of the journalistic competition of the city administration in honor of the 1100th anniversary of Pskov were: Natalya Bobrovskaya, editor of the supplement to the weekly Panorama 7 Days, for a series of television essays Stone Chronicle, Anastasia Postnikova, journalist for the newspaper Pskovskaya Guberniya, for a series of publications dedicated to interesting people of the city, and Pskov TV and Radio Company for the short feature film Olgin Khleb (director Oleg Mikhailov, screenwriter Viktor Yakovlev). / PLN

On July 29, two carriages arrived in Pskov with writers, authors of the Andreevsky Flag publishing house, which specializes in publishing the works of contemporary national patriotic writers. Pskov was visited by Alexander Seden, Vladislav Artyomov, Yuri Losits, Lidia Sycheva, Vyacheslav Degtev, a nominee for the 2003 National Bestseller literary prize, and others. The writers' visit is a joint action of the publishing house and the management of the Oktyabrskaya Railway. / PLN

From July 23 to July 27, the Mikhailovskoye State Museum-Reserve of A. S. Pushkin hosted an international conference “Father Georgy Florovsky: Philosopher, Theologian, Cultural Historian. To the 110th anniversary of the birth. The conference was organized by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, the Mikhailovskoye State Museum-Reserve of A. S. Pushkin, the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Vladimir's Seminary (USA). / PLN

At the age of 73, Alexander Rodionov, director of the Pskov Gonchar plant, Honorary Citizen of the city of Pskov in 2002, passed away. For the complex of works on the construction of new kilns and molding equipment, Alexander Rodionov was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor, awarded more than 20 certificates and diplomas for his work, following the results of his work in 1999 and 2000 he received diplomas of the Best Manager of Russia / PAI