A star from a house on Khreshchatyk and monuments to Soviet propagandists: 47 memorials to be removed have been identified
Kyiv • UNN
The decision provides for the dismantling of the star from a building on Khreshchatyk, monuments to Soviet propagandists, pedestals of lenin monuments, etc
In Kyiv, 47 more memorials and decorative elements were added to the list of memorials related to the history and culture of russia and the USSR to be removed from the city's public space. The decision, in particular, provides for the dismantling of the star from the building on Khreshchatyk. UNN reports with reference to KCSA.
"The Kyiv City Council has identified 47 more memorials and elements of decoration that reflect Soviet and Russian historical and propaganda narratives. They were included in the List of memorials related to the history and culture of russia and the USSR to be removed from the city's public space," the statement said.
Deputy Head of KCSA, Kyiv City Council member Hanna Starostenko said that the city continues to cleanse the urban space of russian senses.
The decision, in particular, provides for the dismantling of the star from the building on Khreshchatyk, monuments to Soviet propagandists, pedestals of lenin monuments, etc. russia uses elements related to imperial history as a springboard to promote aggressive policies. Therefore, it is important that the symbols under which the empire carried out the genocide of Ukrainians disappear from our streets forever
It is reported that among the 27 objects that need to be completely dismantled are monuments to Oleksandr Boychenko (on the territory of gymnasium No. 59) and Mykola Ostrovsky (on the territory of gymnasium No. 191), pedestals from the monument to lenin (Taras Shevchenko Blvd. 1 and 1-A Yakova Hnizdovskoho St.), the memorial stone "Komsomol Alley" (at 40 Akademika Hlushkova Ave.), a star on the roof of a building at 25 Khreshchatyk St., etc.
In addition, the List includes 20 objects that require removal of certain elements of composition, correction of text or its individual parts.
In particular, it concerns a plaque with a russian-language quote by film director Stanislav Govorukhin on the monument to Soldiers-Internationalists (19 Lavrska Street), which is to be replaced with a Ukrainian-language plaque dedicated to Ukrainians who died during the criminal military invasion of Afghanistan by the USSR. There are also plans to replace the inscriptions in russian with Ukrainian on the monuments to Boris Paton and Ilya Repin. And the monogram depicting the imperial monogram of Alexander III on the entrance gate to St. Michael's Clinical Hospital of Kyiv (formerly Oleksandrivska Hospital) is to be dismantled.
"The dismantling of the monuments included in the List is carried out by the Department of Territorial Control of Kyiv. So far, 117 such objects or elements have been removed from the public space of the capital," the statement said.
As of today, 87 objects have not yet been dismantled, 12 of which have monument protection status.
