A monument to Boris Nemtsov was unveiled on October 9, 2015 – on the day when he would be celebrating his 56th birthday. The unveiling ceremony at Troekurovskoye Cemetery was attended by his friends and political associates – Mikhail Kasyanov, Irina Khakamada, Boris Nadezhdin, Ivan Starikov, Konstantin Merzlikin, Yury Ryzhov, Ilya Yashin, Dmitry and Gennady Gudkov, Mikhail Fridman and Oleg Sysuyev.
The monument created by Vyacheslav Bukhayev was sponsored by Boris Nemtsov’s friends Alfred Kokh (former head of Gazprom-Media), Igor Linshits (founder of Neftyanoy Concern) and Oleg Sysuev (former Deputy Prime Minister).