Other

Venera Minakhmetova

Venera Minakhmetova

Erection date: /12/2013

Immediately after her death this site was visited by a protest ride of over 1,000 cyclists demonstrating for safer roads.   A small shrine was set up with flowers, candles, "Space for cycling" notices and a hand-written sign: “RIP to the young lady killed here this morning + thoughts go to her family…. TFL you are to blame for this…. the CS2 is NOT SAFE and you have allowed cyclists to die needlessly!! Shame on you!” 

December 2013 Andrew Lockley set up a ghost bike for Venera and kindly sent us a photo. "I met her a few times through work, but I didn't know her well. Nobody else left a bike for her so I did." Thank you, Andrew.

 

Site: Svitlana Tereschenko and Venera Minakhmetova (2 memorials)

E3, Bow Flyover Roundabout

Svitlana Tereschenko was killed when hit by a left-turning tipper lorry. Only a few weeks after this horrible death Brian Dorling died in the same way on the other side of the same roundabout. Almost exactly 2 years later Venera Minakhmetova was killed at exactly the same spot as Svitlana, in the same awful way. 

Meanwhile The Guardian reports the Mayor of London saying "...people make decisions on the road that are very risky – jumping red lights, moving across fast-moving traffic in a way that is completely unexpected and without looking to see what traffic is doing....". None of the many cyclist deaths on the roads over the last few years have been attributed to this type of behaviour. Most of them have been caused by cyclists having to share the road with lorrys, driven by people who cannot see the vulnerable people on the road. The Mayor seems keener to maintain his popularity than saving innocent people's lives.

Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them

This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Venera Minakhmetova

Subjects commemorated i

Cyclist deaths

Much of the street research for LondonRemembers is done by bike. 820 cyclists...

Read More

Venera Minakhmetova

From London24: "Ms Minakhmetova, a former City financial analyst from Bethnal...

Read More

This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Venera Minakhmetova

Also at this site i

Nearby Memorials

Two St Paul's

Two St Paul's

EC4, St Paul's Churchyard

For our detail picture we show the Chapter House and Cloister which are actually laid out in situ at St Paul's Medieval footprint.

3 subjects commemorated
St George's Circus - clock tower

St George's Circus - clock tower

SE1, St George's Circus

Our image comes from Historic England where we found the designer, Groll, but don't trust the dates given there.

2 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
Battle of St Vincent frieze

Battle of St Vincent frieze

NW1, Euston Road, Triton Square

See "2018" below for the event that this relief depicts. Camden's Public Art List of Major Works in the Borough (warning: large file) sa...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
HMS Sovereign of the Seas

HMS Sovereign of the Seas

SE18, Wellington Street, Greenwich Town Hall

The text names Phineas Pett as the builder of this ship, but Wikipedia gives "... This was supervised by Peter Pett ... guided by his fat...

3 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
Bermondsey Town Hall - remains

Bermondsey Town Hall - remains

SE16, Spa Road, Old Bermondsey Library / Kagyu Samye Dzong Buddhist centre

These piers and ironwork are in front of the Sainsbury's (opened 2014) to the right of the Library.

1 subject commemorated

Previously viewed

Chessum

Chessum

A firm of builders and contractors active in 1880. From British History Online: "Jesse Chessum, a builder who lived in Paradise Place in 1871, Holly Bush Lodge, Green Lanes in 1877, and Amhurst Pa...

Group, Property

1 memorial