The initiative of the Rostov human rights organization to set up a monument to the Nobel Prize winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn has been approved by Rostov-on-Don authorities.

      Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn lived in Rostov-on-Don for 18 years: he finished school there, graduated from the Physics and Mathematics Faculty, got married and went to the front line during World War II.

      One of the streets in Rostov-on-Don is named after the writer.

      The idea about setting up a monument to the author of The Archipelago GULAG appeared in autumn last year.