A monument to Sergei Yakovlevich Lemeshev, the great Opera singer, was opened in Tver on three saints street, near the house No. 25, in honor of the 105th anniversary since the birth of the famous tenor.

The monument is a bronze bust mounted on a marble column. The author of the monument is sculptor Andrey Balashov. Next to the monument on the wall mounted commemorative plaque with the words.

Soviet Opera singer, teacher and Opera Director, Lemeshev, Sergey Yakovlevich was born in 1902 in the village of Old Knyazevo Tver province, in a peasant family. He graduated from the parish school and then studied shoemaking business in St. Petersburg. The basics of singing and musical notation he received in art and craft school, where he participated in Amateur concerts and performances. In 1920, he studied at exemplary courses of the red army commanders where and got directions to the Conservatory.

At the Moscow Conservatory he studied under Professor Paradise, sang in the Opera Studio of the Bolshoi theatre, where he subsequently performed his famous Lensky. This party Lemeshev sang 501 times. In 1926 he made his debut Lemeshev on the professional stage. This happened in the theatre of Opera and ballet of Sverdlovsk. In 1931, Sergei Yakovlevich was invited to the Bolshoi theatre. Lemeshev together with Kozlowski was a leading tenor up to 1957, He played a lot of parties: Astrologer (the Golden Cockerel", the Indian guest in Sadko, Levko in "May night", a Bayan in "Ruslan and Lyudmila", Dubrovsky, and many others.

In 1939, S. Lemeshev starred in the Comedy "Music history". Partners it became S. Filippov, E. Garin, Z. Fedorova. For this role Lemeshev was awarded the Stalin prize. Shortly before the shooting, he performed "Take us, Suomi-beauty", the song "politically important" and something of an 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 was held in 1951. at the Maly Opera theatre in Leningrad production of "La Traviata". In 1957, at the Bolshoi theatre he has staged the Opera "Werther" the Masnou and played the title role.

In the period from 1951 to 1961 he headed the Department of Opera training at the Moscow Conservatory, and from 1969 PA, the Department of solo singing. He also directed a music group and led to the transfer of the all-Union radio.

Sy Lemeshev is the author of the book "the Way to art".

Died Sergei Lemeshev in Moscow in 1977 and was buried at Novodevichy cemetery.