LOPATIN Alexander G.

(23.IV.1818, estate Sergeevskoe now Toropetzkaya region Tver region .- 1.HII.1890, ibid)
Effort and the care of L. was a garden on the site of King's Bastion, and in 1873,. highest permission of garden became known as "Lopatinsky". In 1878, Mr.. L. was president of the Smolensk Branch of the Russian Musical Society. He organized a handicraft workshops in prisons, has introduced innovations in hospitals. When L. Smolensk appeared small factories, workshops on processing agricultural products, printing, set up a private bank and merchants Pestrikova Lanin. With the active participation of the L. in 1872. Smolensk was established charitable society, whose main task was to form a monetary fund to help sick and poor citizens of the city and province. The first major contribution made himself governor, in 1874,. toll-free "people's tea". Created female and male high school. In 1875, Mr.. - "Women's handmade School, where her students were receiving primary education in 1878. - A shelter for young boys, children of poor parents, poor and criminals. Began to be published newspaper Smolensky Gazette been established selling books. L. - One of the initiators of the monument in the city MI. Glinka. L. became an honorary citizen of Gjatsk (1872), Red (1873), Dorogobuzh (1877), Porechye (1880), Roslavl (1881), White and Yukhnov (1880),. On May 23, 1980, Mr.. - Honorary citizen of Mr.. Smolensk. He was awarded the Order of St.. Vladimir 3rd degree, SW. Stanislaus 1-st degree.

Lit.: Work Path, 1995, September 28, Belyaev I.N. Honorary Citizens of Smolensk. 1865-1997. - Smolensk, 1998.