Bandic and Cheremin signed the programme regulating cooperation in the 2017-2019 period, including cooperation in development, urban planning, ecology, transport, culture and sports.
We agreed to intensify cooperation by holding Moscow Days in Zagreb next year, Cheremin said after the signing, adding that more cultural and sporting events would also be organised and cooperation in tourism advanced.
Bandic recalled that the cities agreed the cooperation in 2001 and that it had grown since, notably in the culture sector. He said a park carrying the name of Croatian priest, writer, musician and politician Juraj Krizanic would be opened in Moscow this autumn.
Bandic said that during their stay in Zagreb, Moscow's delegation would also visit the Koncar factory to see if the Croatian company can take part in a tender for the procurement of trams in Moscow and in that context announced a tender for 60 new low-floor trams in Zagreb.
Later today, Bandic and Cheremin will unveil a monument to one of the most popular and well-known Russian poets of the 20th century, Sergei Yesenin, in Zagreb's Bundek park.
Croatia has five other monuments erected to Russian writers and prominent figures. A bust of one of the greatest authors of all time, Leo Tolstoy, was unveiled on the island of Brac in 1914, while a bust of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher, was unveiled on the same Adriatic island in 2015. A bust of Anton Chekhov, a Russian playwright and short story writer, who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history, was unveiled in the northern Adriatic resort of Opatija in 2015. A bust of Alexander Pushkin, a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature, as well as a bust of Yuri Gagarin, a Russian Soviet pilot and cosmonaut and the first human to journey into outer space, were unveiled in Zagreb in 2016.