Saturday, February 16, 2019

Monument to I.V. Stalin will be open by May 9

The initiative group of citizens of Novosibirsk again addressed the city administration with a statement on the approval of the installation of the monument to I.V. Stalin. This time it was proposed to install a monument on the street. Bolshevik, 29, in the territory of the Communist Party regional committee.

The initiative group includes representatives of the All-Union Communist Party Bolsheviks (AUCPB) and a number of other socio-political organizations.

On the website of the City Hall yesterday, on February 7, a notice of public hearings and a draft of the monument to I.V. Stalin - https://novo-sibirsk.ru/upload/iblock/865/stalin.pdf Public discussions will take place from February 12 to March 4, after which the question will be submitted to the council of the city hall.

In the project of installation of the monument to  I.V. Stalin made significant improvements. It is planned to equip the area around the monument, build a brick wall with columns, on the central section to the left and right of the bust will be placed granite slabs, one of which is carved with the words of I.V. Stalin on the historical mission of the Soviet people in the defeat of fascism and the salvation of civilization, on the other - the words from the poem of the Georgian poet "Answer Yevgeny Yevtushenko" -


The three-meter-high monument is a red granite stele with a bust of I.V.  Stalin, depicted in the marshal's jacket with the Star of the Hero of Socialist Labor. The bronze Order “Victory” will be placed on the granite stele, which will be made by the bust author Pavel Markov. On the stela is carved: "The Generalissimo of the Soviet Union STALIN". The area around the monument of I.V. Stalin will be planted trees and flower beds. On one of the lower granite curbstones it will be written: "The monument is installed on people's donations." The stela with bust of I.V. Stalin will be installed on the podium of black granite tiles.

In May of this year. It will be three years already, since the initiative group has been striving for the installation of the monument to I.V. Stalin in the city. During this period, a lot of work has been done, about half a million rubles of national money has been collected, the monument itself has been made. The cost of landscaping is taken on by the Novosibirsk Regional Committee of the CPRF. Also on the territory of the monument will be installed around the clock video surveillance.

Themonument I.V. Stalin will be solemnly opened on May 9 - the 74th anniversary of the Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War of 1941 - 45.

The issue is essentially resolved. Now it is only necessary to go through formal procedures for coordination with the mayor's office, which proposed the territory of the CPRF regional committee. This territory was also recommended by the city's artistic council at a meeting in November 2018. The approval procedure will be completed around the end of March.

A.V. Denisyuk, head of the initiative group for the installation of the monument to I.V. Stalin in the city of Novosibirsk and the Novosibirsk regional branch of the AUCPB

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