In Monuments to Valery Chkalov and Nikolai Vatutin are being dismantled in Kiev On the eve of the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine excluded the monuments to Valery Chkalov and Nikolai Vatutin in Kiev from the state register of immovable monuments. After the demolition, they will be taken to the territory of the Aviation Museum
On February 8, a monument to pilot Valery Chkalov will be dismantled in Kiev, Dmitry Belotserkovets, adviser to the mayor of the city, told Interfax-Ukraine. Work began at 15:00 local time (16:00 Moscow time).
The next day, the mayor’s adviser said, a monument to Soviet General Nikolai Vatutin will be dismantled in Kiev. Then both monuments will be taken to the territory of the State Aviation Museum of Ukraine.
The monument to Chkalov in Kiev was erected in 1981, it is located on Olesya Gonchara Street. The monument to Vatutin was erected in 1948 at the entrance to the Mariinsky Park, near the building of the Verkhovna Rada. The day before, the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine recognized that they are not subject to entry into the state register of immovable monuments, and demanded that the Kiev authorities dismantle and move the monuments.
Test pilot Valery Chkalov was born in 1904 in Nizhny Novgorod province. He is known as the commander of the crew of the ANT-25 aircraft, which in 1937 made the first flight from Moscow to the American Vancouver via the North Pole, without making stops along the way. Chkalov died in mid-December 1938 during tests of the new I-180 fighter.
Nikolai Vatutin was born on December 16, 1901 in the Voronezh province. During the Great Patriotic War, he was the commander of the Voronezh, Southwestern and 1st Ukrainian Fronts. After Vatutin’s death in April 1944, cities and streets in Russia and Ukraine were named after him.
Initiatives to dismantle monuments, as well as rename “Russian” names of toponyms and other objects resumed in Ukraine after the outbreak of hostilities. In the summer, the Ministry of Culture initiated the creation of a Council on de-Russification, Decommunization and Decolonization, which should coordinate these issues. In December, monuments to Empress Catherine II and Commander Alexander Suvorov were dismantled in Odessa.
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