On this day passed his life the first President of Abkhazia Vladislav Ardzinba

"He was a great man, who loved his country and his people, he was close to the people", - Raul Khadjimba.

To honor the memory of the First President of Abkhazia to the memorial complex in the village Eschera came the President Raul Khadjimba, the vice-president Vitaliy Gabniya Prime Minister Beslan Butba, Speaker of the Parliament Valeriy Bganba, Russian Ambassador to Abkhazia Semyon Grigoriev, the Prosecutor General Alexey Lomiya, MPs, and the acting head of the Administration of Sukhum Adgur Kharaziya, members of the public, secondary schools students.

Remembering Vladislav Grigorievich, Khadjimba said: "This was a great man who loved his country and his people, he was close to the people. Vladislav Ardzinba managed to unite all us and make our state".

March 4, 2010 in Moscow on the 65th, after a long and severe illness, died Vladislav Ardzinba - an outstanding statesman and politician, founder of modern Abkhaz state, a prominent scientist-orientalist, the First President of the Republic of Abkhazia.

Vladislav Grigorievich, according to his will, was buried in his native village Eschera, Sukhum district, on the territory of the memorial complex in memory of the fallen soldiers at the front Gumista.