MOSCOW, April 22. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered his condolences to the family of sculptor and President of the Russian Academy of Arts Zurab Tsereteli, who died on Tuesday at the age of 91. "Please accept my deep condolences, my words of sympathy and support over the death of Zurab Tsereteli. We have lost a talented artist and sculptor, an outstanding man who represented the country’s multiethnic community. Zurab Tsereteli dedicated his entire life to art, was open to good, noble deeds and endeavors," he said in a telegram of condolences posted on the Kremlin website. "The memory of this great man will remain forever in the hearts of his family members, friends, students, all those who valued his unique and unmatched talent," the president noted. Zurab Tsereteli, an artist and a sculptor, an educator and a public figure, People’s Artist of the USSR, Georgia and Russia, the President of the Russian Academy of Arts, was in charge of many large-scale art projects. In the 1970s and1980s, he was the art director for the Russian Foreign Ministry. In 1980, he was the art director for the Moscow Olympics, and in 1995, he oversaw the construction of the Poklonnaya Hill memorial in Moscow and the reconstruction of the interior of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow. His works can be found in the streets, squares and public buildings in Moscow and other cities in Russia, the Commonwealth of Independent States, and abroad.