Odesa monuments are among the hundred to be decolonized

The NGO Decolonization of Ukraine has updated the list of monuments that activists believe should be dismantled.

Among the monuments are those located in the Odesa region.

These are:

• Abust of Pushkin in Odesa on Prymorskyi Boulevard.
• Monument to Vorontsov in Odesa.
• Monument to Alexander II in Odesa.
• Monument to Pushkin near the museum of the same name in Odesa.
• Monument to Leo Tolstoy in Odesa.
• Mausoleum to Kotovskyi in Podilsk, Odesa region.
• Monument to Pushkin in Tatarbunary.
• Monument to Inzov in Bolhrad.
• Monument to Chernyakhovsky in Odesa.
• A monument to Zoya Kosmodemianska in the village of Bessarabske in Odesa region.

The decolonizers also targeted the monument to "Fighters for the Power of the Soviets," the monument to Admiral Makarov, and the monument to Hmyryov in Mykolaiv. And a monument to Karbyshev in Kherson.

In June, the then-mayor of Odesa , Hennadiy Trukhanov, found himself at the center of another scandal over a monument to Russian poet Alexander Pushkin on Prymorskyi Boulevard in Odesa.

Previously, a memorial plaque to Russian writer Alexander Pushkin, which was on the facade of the former Richelieu Lyceum building at 16 Deribasovskaya Street, was smashed in Odesa. It is unknown who did this.

Before that, activists of the public organization "We make you nerves" staged a performance on a bust of Alexander Pushkin located on Primorsky Boulevard in the center of Odesa.

The action took place in the context of a conflict because passers-by were outraged by the actions of the activists, and they, in turn, advised those dissatisfied with their actions to go to Russia.

The day before, unidentified persons had vandalized a monument to Soviet Marshal Rodion Malinowski, located at the corner of Preobrazhenska and Sofiivska streets.

In September 2024, Odesa signed an order to dismantle the monument to Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, which is located on Primorsky Boulevard in front of the city hall.

Кирило Бойко