In Kyiv, on February 8, a monument to Chkalov was dismantled, which was located in a park at the intersection of Gonchar and Mikhail Kotsyubinsky streets.
The Ministry of Culture and Information Policy recognized it as not subject to inclusion in the State Register of Immovable Monuments of Ukraine. The monuments will be taken to the territory of the Aviation Museum.
The monument to Soviet General Nikolai Vatutin will be dismantled on February 9, adviser to the mayor of Kyiv Dmitry Belotserkovets told Interfax-Ukraine.
The dismantling of the monument to Chkalov will be carried out today, from 16.00, we are preparing the dismantling of the monument to Vatutin tomorrow. The monuments will be taken to the territory of the Aviation Museum,” said Belotserkovets.
The monument to Chkalov in Kyiv was built in 1981, it is located on Oles Gonchar Street in the city center. The monument to Vatutin was erected in 1948 at the entrance to the Mariinsky Park, not far from the building of the Verkhovna Rada.
Chkalov was born in 1904 in the Nizhny Novgorod province. He made an unprecedented non-stop flight from Moscow to Vancouver via the North Pole and died in 1938 during flight tests. Chkalov was a Soviet test pilot, brigade commander and Hero of the Soviet Union. He worked all his life in Russia. He had nothing to do with Ukraine.
Vatutin was born in 1901 in the Voronezh province. During World War II, he commanded the troops of the Voronezh, Southwestern and 1st Ukrainian fronts. Killed in April 1944.
Source: Racurs
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