The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has permitted the removal of monuments to Pushkin, Shchors, and the grave of Vatutin in Kyiv

The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has decided to remove from the State Register of Immovable Monuments of Cultural Heritage of National Significance monuments to poet Alexander Pushkin, Red Army division chief during the Civil War Nikolai Shchors, as well as other Russian and Soviet figures.

This information was reported by the website of the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine.

Monuments removed from the register include the Pushkin monument on Beresteysky Avenue, the Shchors monument on Shevchenko Boulevard, the grave of Army General Nikolai Vatutin in Mariinsky Park, the monument to the crew of the armored train “Taraschansky” in the square between Zaslonova and Yaltinskaya streets in Kyiv. Also, monuments to Pushkin in Zhytomyr, Kharkiv, and Odesa, Prince Vorontsov in Odesa, Field Marshal Suvorov in Izmail, Admiral Ushakov in Kherson, “Ukraine to the Liberators” in Uzhgorod, and the Memorial Complex “To the Fighters of the Revolution” in Luhansk.

“The liberation of Ukrainian cities and Ukrainian culture from communist, Soviet, and Russian-imperial impurity continues. Local authorities must finally clear the space of markers of anti-Ukrainian policy—dismantle and relocate monuments,” commented Acting Minister of Culture Rostyslav Karandeyev on the event.