Kyiv dismantles monument to Shchors, which may result in traffic restrictions on Taras Shevchenko Boulevard - KCIA
Kyiv • UNN
The dismantling of the monument to Bolshevik leader Mykola Shchors has begun in Kyiv, which may lead to traffic blocking on Taras Shevchenko Boulevard. The dismantled monument will be moved to the State Aviation Museum.
Dismantling of the monument to the Bolshevik leader of the monument to Bolshevik activist Mykola Shchors. Because of this, it is possible traffic on Taras Shevchenko Boulevard may be blocked. This was reported in the morning by the Kyiv City Military Administration, UNN reports.
To dismantle the complex structure, a temporary partial traffic on Taras Shevchenko Boulevard may be temporarily blocked.
Dismantling of the Soviet monument of the Soviet monument by public utilities around 7 am.
The monument to the Soviet figure, located in the center of Kyiv city center, had previously had its protective status removed, the Kyiv City State Administration said.
After dismantling, the monument will be transferred to the State Museum of Aviation of Ukraine named after O. Antonov.
For reference
Shchors Mykola Oleksandrovych was one of the military Bolshevik military leaders during the Soviet-Ukrainian War. In the 1930s, the image of Shchors' image was actively used by Soviet propaganda, including the erection of monuments to the Bolshevik leader throughout the territory of the then USSR.
As a reminder
on November 10, the government decided to remove monuments of national significance from the State Register of Immovable Monuments of Cultural heritage of national importance of monuments to the Russian writer Alexander Pushkin, Bolshevik leader Nikolai Shchors, as well as other Russian and Soviet figures. Thus
