The Transnistrian Patriotic Party proposed that the monument to Grigory Potyomkin, a prominent Russian political figure of the 18th century, be placed near the monument to Alexandr Suvorov in the central square of Tiraspol, Info-Prim Neo’s correspondent in Tiraspol reports. Pavel Fiodorov, the head of the Historical and Political Researches Center of the Institute “Strategia RMN” (“Moldovan Transnistrian Republic’s Strategy”), said that Potyomkin was a founder, an ideologist on the north shore of the Black Sea and due to many of his initiatives and foreign policy views the Transnistrian region at that time fell within Russia’s geopolitical interests and became part of Russia. General-Filed Marshal Grigory Potyomkin was an important statesman in the Russian Empire and a favorite of Catherine II the Great. He is primarily remembered for his efforts to colonize the sparsely populated wild steppes of Southern Ukraine, which passed to Russia under the Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji (1774). In 1790, he conducted the military operation on the Nistru, while in 1792, one year after his death, General Alexandr Suvorov founded Tiraspol city on the eastern bank of the river. In 1812, as a result of another Russo-Turkish war, the Russian Empire also annexed Moldova's territories eastward of the Prut River, which later became the province of Bessarabia.