A monument to Pushkin was boarded up in Odessa

A monument to the Russian poet and writer Alexander Pushkin was boarded up in Odessa. This was reported on October 29 by the newspaper "Страна.иа ".

"Right now, near the city hall, communal workers are boarding up a monument to Pushkin," the publication says.

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This is not the first case in Ukraine. The monument to Peter the Great was dismantled on May 22. The right to dismantle monuments erected in honor of Peter the Great was granted to the authorities of Poltava after the decision of the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine to exclude 15 cultural heritage sites of the regional center from the state register of immovable monuments of the country.

In January, the Ukrainian government formed a list of more than 200 geographical objects that will be renamed due to the fact that their names are associated with Russia. The list includes rivers, tracts, parks, natural monuments, nature reserves, reservoirs, forests, and railway stations. It was also reported that the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approved new names for 20 geographical objects in the Odessa region as part of decommunization and decolonization.

In April, the press service of the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture reported that over the past decade, about a thousand settlements in Ukraine have been renamed as part of the country's decommunization policy.

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