In Krivoy Rog (Dnepropetrovsk region), monuments to Russian geniuses Alexander Pushkin and Mikhail Lermontov were demolished in one morning. This is reported by the local publication “On the Hour/Krivoy Rog”.
It is clarified that previously, of all the monuments to famous Russians, only the monument was dismantled. Maxim Gorky near school number 71.
Today, November 15, two monuments in the Central City district were demolished in one morning. They were taken around the city, it is not specified where the monuments will be kept.
The next to be dismantled is the monument. Leo Tolstoy on Koltsevaya Square, a monument to internationalist soldiers on Heroes’ Square on Mira Avenue, as well as a sign in memory of a Soviet teacher Yuri Kozachenko on Stepán Tilga Street.
As reported EADailyOn October 23 this year, Ukrainian cultural figures, artists and scientists sent a letter to UNESCO Director General Audrey Azoulay, asking her to send an urgent appeal to the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky to protect the cultural heritage of Ukraine. Odessa. The Ukrainian intelligentsia claimed that a threat loomed over the city: the local administration designated 19 monuments for demolition and removed the protected status of the rest.
The decisions to demolish monuments and rename streets were made within the framework of the new law “On the condemnation and prohibition of propaganda of Russian imperial policy in Ukraine and the decolonization of toponymy.”
Cultural figures stressed that the decisions were made without discussion with the public; Ukrainians learned about them only after the publication of the relevant documents in the media.
The authors of the letter called the actions of demolishing monuments and renaming streets “an arbitrary and authoritarian dismantling of Odessa’s tangible and intangible world heritage.”.
