In Odessa decided to dismantle the monument to Pushkin

The Odessa City Council has passed a resolution to dismantle the monument to Russian poet Alexander Pushkin on Primorsky Boulevard. The meeting of the 36th session was broadcasted on YouTube-channel of the City Council.

It is noted that the meeting adopted a bill of the city budget for 2025, which includes the dismantling of 12 monuments.

As recalled the Ukrainian edition "Strana.ua", the monument is protected by UNESCO. It was installed in 1889 at the expense of citizens.

Earlier, on November 15, the authorities of Krivoy Rog ordered the demolition of monuments to Russian poets Alexander Pushkin and Mikhail Lermontov within the framework of the law on "decolonization" of Ukraine, which provides for "getting rid of the influence of Russia".

Before that, on September 21, monuments to the heroes of the novel "The Twelve Chairs" created by Odessa writers Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov were demolished in Kharkiv.

In May, Ukraine's Ministry of Culture and Information Policy (MCIP) reported that in the four months of 2024, the status of cultural heritage monument was revoked for 215 monuments that the Kiev authorities considered to represent "Russian imperial policy."

The policy of so-called decolonization was a continuation of "decommunization" in Ukraine, which began in 2015 under the law "On Condemnation of Communist and Nazi Regimes." It prescribes demolishing monuments, dismantling memorial plaques, and renaming all topographical objects whose names are associated with the USSR or Russia. This policy became especially acute after the start of the Russian Federation's special operation to defend Donbass in February 2022.