Monument to Sergei Yakovlevich Lemeshev, great opera singer, was opened in Tver Trekhsvyatskoye street next to the house №25, in honor of the 105th anniversary of the birth of the famous tenor.

The monument is a bronze bust mounted on a marble column. The author of the monument is sculptor Andrei Balashov. Next to the monument is installed on the wall plate with the memorable words.

Soviet opera singer, teacher and opera director, Lemeshev Efron was born in 1902 in the village of Old Knyazevo Tver province, into a peasant family. He graduated from the parish school and then studied shoemaking in St. Petersburg. Foundations of singing and musical notation he received in artistic and craft school, which took part in amateur concerts and performances. In 1920 he studied at the model courses commanders of the Red Army, where he was assigned to the conservatory.

The Moscow Conservatory, he studied in the class of Professor Eden, sang in the opera studio of the Bolshoi Theatre, where he performed subsequently has glorified his Lensky. This party Lemeshev sang 501 times. In 1926 he made his debut on the professional stage Lemesheva. This happened in the opera and ballet theater of Sverdlovsk. In 1931, Efron was invited to the Bolshoi Theater. Lemeshev with Kozlovsky was the leading tenor before 1957 he played a lot of parties: Astrologer (in "Golden Cockerel" Indian guest in "Sadko" Levko in "May Night" in Bayan "Ruslan and Ludmilla" Dubrovsky, and many others .

In 1939, SJ Lemeshev starred in the comedy "Music History". The partners began his S.Filippov E. Garin, Z.Fedorova. For this role, Lemeshev awarded the Stalin Prize. Shortly before the shooting, he sang "Take us, Suomi-Beauty", the song "politically important" and a kind of anthem of the Soviet-Finnish war. In 1947 Lemeshev toured with the opera "Eugene Onegin" at the State Opera in Berlin. His debut as an opera director took place in 1951. at the Maly Opera House in Leningrad production of "La Traviata." In 1957, at the Bolshoi Theatre he staged the opera "Werther" MACH and performed the title role.

In the period from 1951 to 1961. he directed the Department of opera training at the Moscow Conservatory, and from 1969 po1971 years. - The Department of solo singing. He also directed the vocal group and led to the transfer of All-Union Radio.

SY Lemeshev is the author of "The Way of the arts."

Sergei Lemeshev died in Moscow in 1977 and is buried in the Novodevichy cemetery.