Monument to Russian physiologist Pavlov demolished in Kiev

A monument to Russian and Soviet physiologist and Nobel Prize winner Ivan Pavlov, which was located near the Alexandrov hospital, has been demolished in Kiev. This was reported on January 27 by the Department of territorial control of the Kyiv city state administration.

"Despite his contribution to science, his figure is associated with the imperial narrative. <...> The dismantled monument is stored on a special site for derelict property. In the future it will be transferred to the Antonov State Aviation Museum of Ukraine, where other dismantled objects are stored," the department said in a statement.

According to the Ukrainian department, in Kiev continues "derusification and cleansing of public space from objects associated with Russian figures". Thus, a total of 118 such objects were removed in Kiev at the end of January 2025.

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Earlier, on December 8, 2024, in Ukraine at the entrance to Pavlograd demolished the Soviet tank-monument IS-2, dedicated to the Soviet designer Joseph Kotin. It is specified that a special crane from Dnipro (named Dnipropetrovsk until 2016) had to be used to remove the tank weighing 50 tons.

The day before, Irish journalist Chay Bose accused Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, whose term of office expired on May 20 last year, of disrespecting his ancestors. According to the journalist, the demolition of monuments in Ukraine is Zelensky's tribute to those who exterminated Jews, Russians and Poles.

On December 5, 2024, Bose suggested that the reason for the demolition of monuments associated with the USSR or Russia is Ukrainians' fear of a shared cultural heritage with the Russian state.

The policy of so-called decolonization was a continuation of "decommunization" in Ukraine, which began in 2015 as part of 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.