Odesa City Council Requests Dismantling of Kursk Memorial Plaque

The Odesa City Council reported that it had sent a letter to the leadership of the Holy Archangel Michael Convent with a request to dismantle the memorial plaque dedicated to the dead sailors of the Russian submarine Kursk.

This was the response received by the NGO Decolonization. Ukraine".

The Department of Culture, International Cooperation and European Integration of the Odesa City Council informed Decolonization. Ukraine that it had already sent a letter to the monastery with an appeal to the leadership of the Holy Archangel Michael Convent with a request to dismantle the memorial plaque dedicated to the dead sailors of the Russian submarine Kursk.

Photo: Decolonization. Ukraine

"It is up to the leadership of the religious institution to decide the fate of this memorial object," the letter said.

In Odesa, the city council instructed the Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture to create projects for the dismantling of Russian and Soviet monuments.

On the night of September 6, activists Demian Hanul and Vladyslav Balynskyi demolished a bas-relief depicting the Hero of the Soviet Union star and the Order of Lenin. The day before, Marina Boyko, a member of the city council from the European Solidarity party, appealed to Odesa Mayor Gennadiy Trukhanov to dismantle or temporarily close the bas-reliefs of the Order of Lenin and the medal on the Wings of Victory monument on the square. On the morning of September 28, it became known that the activists had broken the bas-reliefs.

Among the objects to be dismantled in Odesa is a mass grave of Red Guards on Kulykove Pole. Defenders of the Ukrainian People's Republic may be buried there. The city authorities are going to exhume the bodies and move them to another cemetery.

Андрій Колісніченко