Saturday, October 13, 2018

Public discussions on the project of installing the monument to J.V. Stalin in the city of Novosibirsk


From October 9 to October 29 public discussions on the installation of the monument to J.V. Stalin on the territory of the city of Novosibirsk at the following addresses:

- next to the building of the Federal State Budgetary Institution “House of Officers of the Novosibirsk Garrison” (63 Krasny Avenue);

- on the square of the Siberian Guardsmen near the stele "Bayonets";

- in the Efremovsky Square near the building of PJSC "Tyazhstankogidropress" (Sibiryakov Guardsmen Street, 50).

Notice of public discussion is published on the official website of the city - http://novo-sibirsk.ru/upload/iblock/3dd/byust.pdf

Public discussions are conducted via the Internet. Not only residents of the city of Novosibirsk - any citizen of Russia, public organizations, legal entities, expert organizations can send comments and suggestions. Feedback is sent in the form of an attached document by e-mail to imiheev@admnsk.ru

Similar public discussions are held in the city for the first time. The question is why the project of installation of the monument to J.V. Stalin is undergoing public hearings? After all, neither a monument to Emperor Nicholas II, nor a monument to Prince Vladimir the Baptist of Rus did not undergo such a procedure.

Application for approval of the location of the monument to J.V. Stalin on the territory of the city was sent to the mayor's office on August 22. This issue was included on the agenda of the artistic council on October 3, but then was urgently withdrawn due to the need for public discussion. The fact is that on August 29, the mayor’s office (signed by the mayor, AE Lokt) introduces changes to the decree of the mayor’s office No. 7056, which complicates the approval procedure and, moreover, introduces a procedure for dismantling the inconsistently installed monument on both municipal and private territory.

Also, according to the same decree of the city hall of September 29, 188, the permission of the district administration is now also required. It cost only the head of the Leninsky district to object to the installation of the monument J.V. Stalin in the Square of Glory (Monument of Glory), and the question was immediately closed.

It turns out that the municipality is opposing the installation of a monument in the city, following the lead of the liberal public.

It is not surprising that the mayor’s office offered a site in a remote Kirovsky district of the city - in Efremovsky Square. Like, place it, but in the back out of sight.

Recall that in September last year, at a meeting of the City Council’s artistic council, a working group was formed to determine the location of the monument to J.V. Stalin on the territory of Novosibirsk. According to the results of her work, there are three possible sites for the installation of the monument to J.V. Stalin.

The municipality did not approve the sites offered by the initiative group: on Krasny Prospect (for example, at the stele to the Heroes of the Great Patriotic War), on the Monument of Glory (in the Square of Glory), in front of the Stalin Club). The mayor's office proposed Efremovsky Square at the plant "Tyazhstankogidropress." For our part, we offered a place near the House of Officers (next to the bust of the Russian commander MI Kutuzov). A member of the artistic council E.M. Trofimovich offered a stela "Bayonet" on the square Siberian guards.

Based on the indisputable merit of J.V. Stalin in the organization of the Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War, we propose to establish a monument to Generalissimo J.V. Stalin in the historically significant, central part of the city - near the House of Officers.

Due to the fact that approval by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation is required to coordinate the installation of the monument next to the House of Officers, we are on October 7 of this year, sent an appeal to the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin and Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation S.K. Shoigu with a request to assist in obtaining the consent of the Defense Ministry of the Russian Federation.

The monument to J.V. Stalin has already been made.  450 thousand rubles of people's money was collected  without the help of sponsors. The bust cost 200 thousand rubles, granite pedestal (from Kazakhstan) 200 thousand rubles. Now we are raising funds for the improvement of the site for the installation of the monument (100-150 thousand rubles are required).

The monument to Generalissimo J.V Stalin we intend to set up by the 74th anniversary of the Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War of 1941 - 45.

A.V. Denisyuk,

leader of the initiative group for the installation of the monument J.V Stalin in the city of Novosibirsk

Tel .: +7 923 775-09-05

08.10.2018