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The message reads, in part:

“I am pleased to welcome you to the official ceremony to unveil the monument to Zinaida Yermolyeva, an outstanding scientist and inventor of domestic antibiotics, a woman of an extraordinary fate, impressive talent and immense personal courage.

It is symbolic that the monument has been installed in Rostov-on-Don, the city where Zinaida Yermolyeva achieved her initial academic success. Her selfless efforts and the outcome of a truly unique research resulted in saving millions of lives. And of course, her work to organise production of medications to treat cholera during the Great Patriotic War went down as a separate heroic page in her biography. This was a feat of a true doctor selflessly devoted to the Motherland and her noble calling.

I should note that the opening of the monument to Zinaida Yermolyeva is timed to coincide with her 125^th birthday and is taking place in the year when we mark the 100^th anniversary of Russia’s State Sanitary and Epidemiological Service, an agency she pioneered. I am confident that a profound awareness and preservation of Zinaida Yermolyeva’s academic and creative legacy will contribute to the further development of Russia’s medical science and healthcare.”