By the visit of Dmitri Medvedev Chinese restore memorials to Soviet soldiers.

By the official visit of President Dmitry Medvedev to China, scheduled, according to preliminary data, in September 2010, in Port Arthur will be restored Russian military memorials. This writes the newspaper Kommersant on Thursday, 7 May.
According to one of the points of the year visit, Medvedev could become involved in the opening ceremony of a monument to Russian soldiers who fell during the Russian-Japanese war in defense of Port Arthur and the Soviet soldiers who died in 1945 in Northeast China. Recovery of these graves had already engaged the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Defense on the money humanitarian fund "Generation" State Duma deputy Andrei Skocha.
Sources of Kommersant at the Russian Foreign Ministry explained that it is also planned opening of a joint memorial to Soviet and Chinese soldiers, because in 2010 will be celebrated 65 anniversary of victory in World War II.
According to the publication, so the memorial could be a monument to Russian and Soviet soldiers in the city Lyuyshun in the north-east of China (formerly Port Arthur). According to the Kommersant, Dmitry Medvedev showed an interest in the memorial in August 2006, when he first visited China in the post of first vice-premier of Russia.
As the publication, Stanislav Muravsky, then head of the Russian Consulate General in the Chinese Shenyane and organized in 2006, Medvedev traveled to Northeast China, the First Vice Prime Minister inquired graves of Russian soldiers killed in the defense of Port Arthur during the Russian-Japanese war of 1904 -1905 years, and the Soviet soldiers who liberated the area from the Japanese in August 1945.
Now there is a memorial Lyuyshune defenders of Port Arthur, built in 1945 and maintained in good condition. Next to him is about 1.6 thousand monuments and obelisks, representing the burial of Russian and Soviet soldiers.
Kommersant reports that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Defense since 2004, led the Chinese side on the possibility of restoring a military cemetery. In 2008, the Russian government became a partner of the humanitarian foundation "Generation" State Duma deputies from United Russia "Andrei Skocha, who decided to finance the work. In the "generations" implies that the cost of the project in Port Arthur will be from 1.5 to 2 million U.S. dollars.