Lithuania’s Klaipėda named the street after Odesa and received a monument from Ukraine as a gift
The Ukrainian city of Odesa gifted a monument, named Anchor-Heart, to the Lithuanian city of Klaipėda after the latter decided to name a promenade after it, LRT reports.
In June, Klaipėda authorities were approached by the Odesa City Council with a proposal to move the Anchor-Heart monument, a symbol of Odessa’s tourism, to its partner city as a gift to Klaipėda.
Last week, Odesa Vice Mayors Sergiy Tetyukhin and Dmytro Zheman met with Klaipėda Mayor Vytautas Grubliauskas in Lithania and officially handed over the Odesa symbol.
In late March, the City Council approved plans to rename the path stretching along the sea in Klaipėda’s Melnragė district after Odessa.
Speaking at the Council meeting in Klaipėda, Tetyukhin said: “We have always known that our friends live in Lithuania, but now this friendship has really manifested itself. Klaipėda is a piece of Odesa and Odesa is a piece of Klaipėda.”
