In Kyiv on Friday, February 10, completed the dismantling of the monument to Soviet General Nikolai Vatutin in the Mariinsky Park in Kyiv. Further, the Kyiv City Council appealed to the Ministry of Culture with the idea of \u200b\u200bexhuming and transferring the body of the Soviet commander, buried in the city park of the capital.

Demolition started the day before.. Public utilities workers managed to dismantle the monument itself, and today they also dismantled the granite pedestal.

As Timur Tkachenko, head of the Department of Urban Improvement, noted, the pedestal weighed 24 tons, so its dismantling was delayed.

As for the reburial of the body of Nikolai Vatutin, there is no final decision on this matter yet, said Volodymyr Prokopov, secretary of the Kyiv City Council, in a commentary to Ukrayinska Pravda.

“There is an operating time for the exhumation and reburial of the body, but there is no decision yet.

We have already made a presentation to the Ministry of Culture, which should make a presentation to the Cabinet of Ministers, because this is a monument of national importance. And the Cabinet of Ministers must make a decision,” he explained the features of the procedure..

Also, the government should determine the place of Vatutin's reburial, although the work is likely to be carried out by the local administration..

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Recall that this week a monument to the Soviet Pilot Valery Chkalov was also dismantled in Kyiv..