The Stalingrad Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation has pledged in the budget 100 thousand rubles for the transportation and installation of a monument to Joseph Stalin from Uryupinsk to Volgograd. They want to open the monument to the leader of nations in 2019 on the Mamayev Kurgan or in one of the city parks. In Urjupinsk, they are not going to give up the monument, and in the museum-reserve “The Battle of Stalingrad” they see many difficulties in the implementation of their plans.
“The regional committee planned the installation of a monument to Joseph Stalin in 2019,” Andrei Shevchenko, secretary of the Communist Party’s Stalingrad regional committee, told a V1.RU correspondent. - We have already put in the estimate about 100 thousand rubles for it, and all other organizational issues will be resolved next year. The monument itself is located in Uryupinsk. The main thing is that the administration of Volgograd should allocate space for it, and we undertake the expenses necessary for transportation, the redemption of space for it, and the installation work.
The monument to Joseph Stalin is located in the regional history museum of the capital of the Russian province.
- I think that there will be no fundamental difficulties with the mayor’s office. But they may occur when choosing an installation site. If, for example, it is federal land on the territory of the Museum-Reserve “Battle of Stalingrad” on Mamayev Kurgan, this is one thing, - said Andrey Shevchenko. - I think it will be easier to erect a monument to Stalin in one of the city parks. But let's start with Mamaev Kurgan, and there we will already look at the situation. I do not see anything wrong with his installation. Nikita Khrushchev demolished all the monuments to Joseph Vissarionovich, the appearance in Volgograd of only one monument will not spoil anything. Moreover, nowadays are place monuments to many - Nicholas II, for example.
“We are planning to erect a monument for the anniversary of the October Revolution on November 7 or the Constitution Day of the USSR 1977 - October 7,” the regional committee secretary explained. - The most extreme installation date is the birthday of Joseph Stalin, December 21.
In Urjupinsk, Stalin is not going to leave.
The monument to Joseph Stalin was erected in the Uryupinsk square of Komsomol in 1948. Later, the park was named after the leader. Under the rule of Nikita Khrushchev, the monument disappeared without a trace and was considered missing. In 2000, the Uryupian, who wished to remain anonymous, indicated the location of the monument. Stalin's concrete was found covered with earth on the territory of the former Khopyorsky District Prison. He was excavated and placed in the Uryupinsky regional museum of local lore in the exposition dedicated to the defeat of the German troops near Stalingrad.
The idea of installing a monument to Stalin in Volgograd was last time close to incarnation in 2005. Then the famous Russian sculptor Zurab Tsereteli decided to give the hero city his “Big Three” work with Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill and Theodore Roosevelt. At first they were supposed to install them in the square at the intersection of the 13th Guards and Soviet. But the cost of transporting and installing almost five-meter sculptures proved unbearable for the city administration. As a result, only a small sketch of the “troika” arrived in Volgograd, installed in one of the halls of the museum-panorama “The Battle of Stalingrad” near the bust of the leader of nations.
Source: https://v1.ru/text/politics/65777131
