“The head of the Department of Culture and European Integration of the Odesa City Council, Ivan Liptugaby, explained what is needed to demolish the monument to the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin in the city. The organization should have a response from UNESCO, as this monument is located in its protected area. This was announced by the head of the Department of Culture and European Integration of Odesa City Council, Ivan Liptuga. A response from UNESCO is required for any work that”, — write on: ua.news
The head of the Department of Culture and European Integration of the Odesa City Council, Ivan Liptugaby, explained what is needed to demolish the monument to the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin in the city. The organization should have a response from UNESCO, as this monument is located in its protected area.
This was announced by the head of the Department of Culture and European Integration of Odesa City Council, Ivan Liptuga.
A response from UNESCO is needed for any work planned in its protected area, from changing the layout of a block to simply replacing pipes, he said.
Currently, the city council has sent letters to the Ministry of Culture and Foreign Affairs regarding what to do next with the monuments in the protected zone.
“But UNESCO here is also a very cautious and bureaucratized organization, so we will not get an answer from them quickly. This is a very long procedure. We write to the Ministry of Culture, they write to the UNESCO executive company at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs sends it to Paris, and the answer comes back to us in the same chain,” said Ivan Liptuga.
Earlier, Oleg Kiper, the head of the Odesa OVA, said that the Pushkin monument will be demolished in the city, which has been demanded from the local authorities for a long time.
All the relevant orders have already been signed, so the documents have already been sent to all the relevant structures.
The monument was built back in 1887-1889 on Primorsky Boulevard in Odessa, it is made of bronze and granite, and the funds for it were collected by the city residents. The monument is a bust placed on a high square granite pedestal.
Pushkin lived in Odessa for about a year from June 1823 to July 1824. It is believed that this is where the Russian poet wrote part of his novel in verse “Eugene Onegin”.
Before and after the start of the full-scale invasion, Odesa residents and other activists demanded that the local authorities demolish this monument. This was argued by the fact that the monument to Pushkin is a symbol of the Russian occupation, but the local authorities rejected such words.
For example, the mayor of Odesa, Gennadiy Trukhanov, stated in one of his recent interviews: “When they tell me that Putin dressed Pushkin in military uniforms and everything related to culture, it is wrong. This is our gift to the Russians: we give them Pushkin, who lived and worked in Odessa.”
In addition to this monument, people demanded to demolish the monuments in honor of the Russian empress Catherine II and the Russian military commander Alexander Suvorov. After long disputes, they were dismantled.
A monument to the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin will be demolished in Odesa, Oleg Kiper, the head of Odesa OVA, said earlier in an interview with “City of Power”.
On Wednesday, June 5, communal workers dismantled the pedestal of the monument to Alexander Pushkin in Kharkiv.
During the full-scale war in Ukraine, 34 monuments to the Russian writer Alexander Pushkin were dismantled. The first was demolished in the city of Mukachevo on April 7, 2022.
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