“Deputies of the Odesa City Council voted to allocate funds for the design of works for the dismantling of 13 monuments with Russian imperial symbols. This became known from the meeting of the session, which took place on December 4. According to the project, 200,000 hryvnias were allocated for the development of documentation for dismantling, removal and relocation. UAH 20,000 will be spent on the following monuments: to the scientist Viktor Hlushka;”, — write on: ua.news
Deputies of the Odesa City Council voted to allocate funds for the design of works for the dismantling of 13 monuments with Russian imperial symbols.
This became known from the meeting of the session, which took place on December 4.
According to the project, 200,000 hryvnias were allocated for the development of documentation for dismantling, removal and relocation.
UAH 20,000 will be spent on the following monuments:
- scientist Viktor Hlushka;
- the mass grave of the Red Guards who died in the struggle for the establishment of Soviet power in Odessa in January 1918;
- Alexander II (Memorial column in honor of the laying of the park);
- partisans and scouts Zoya Kosmodemyanska;
- bust of Marshal Rodion Malinovsky;
- to General Chernyakhovsky;
- pilot Valery Chkalov.
10 thousand hryvnias each:
- monument to Isaac Babel;
- monument to Oleksandr Marinesk;
- wall of Chekists;
- two monuments to the poet Alexander Pushkin on Primorsky Boulevard and Italiyska Street, 13;
- a monument to Komsomol members of Odesa.
MP from “European Solidarity” Maryna Boyko thanked her colleagues for supporting this decision and turned to the Department of Capital Construction:
“I express my sincere hope that all tenders for the identification of executors of design and technical works will be conducted on time, in accordance with the procedures without delays.”
Design documents for dismantling, removing and moving monuments should be ordered in 2024.
Earlier, Oleg Kiper, the head of Odesa OVA, announced that he had signed an order to demolish, in particular, a monument to Pushkin in Odesa. The city council pointed out that it is necessary to have a UNESCO permit.
The Executive Committee of the Odesa City Council plans to dismantle 19 monuments in the city as part of decommunization. Among them are Gorky, Pushkin, Alexander II and Michurin.
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