2019 has been declared the International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements by the UN Assembly in honor of the 150th anniversary of the periodic law inaugurated on March 1, 1869. February 8, 2019 marks the 185th anniversary of the birth of a native of the city of Tobolsk, an honorary citizen of Tobolsk – Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev.

On February 28, 2019, on the eve of the 150th anniversary of D.I. Mendeleev and on the Day of the 25th anniversary of the public charitable foundation “Revival of Tobolsk”, the foundation and the company “Sibur” opened a sculptural and landscape composition in the park “Ermakovo field” dedicated to D.I. Mendeleev and his great discovery of the periodic law.

The author of the monument is the architect Alexei Belousov.