In Vladivostok, the court rejected the claim to demolish the monument to Solzhenitsyn
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The court in Vladivostok dismissed the claim for the demolition of the monument to the writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn on Korabelnaya Street. This is reported on the court’s website.
The court rejected the claim filed by Tynda resident Andrei Huk, who called Solzhenitsyn a “controversial figure” and “the embodiment of a false conception of the Soviet Union and Russia.” The defendants in the case were the administration of Vladivostok and the city administration of architecture and construction. The reasons for the refusal are not disclosed. The decision has not entered into legal force.
In January 2022, the administration of Vladivostok refused to dismantle the monument to Solzhenitsyn at the request of city duma deputy Maksym Shinkarenko. The city hall noted that demolishing the monument is inexpedient, as it is popular with tourists. Shinkarenko demanded permission to dismantle the sculpture, referring to the data of a survey conducted by one of the local publications in 2015, according to which almost 87% of participants spoke in favor of the monument’s demolition. In 2015, Shynkarenko hung a plaque with the inscription “Judas” on Solzhenitsyn’s monument in response to the city authorities’ refusal to allow the erection of a monument to Joseph Stalin.
- A monument to Alexander Solzhenitsyn by sculptor Pyotr Chagodaev in Vladivostok was installed in Vladivostok on September 5, 2015. Solzhenitsyn visited Vladivostok once in passing, when he returned to Russia from the United States in May 1994.
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn is a writer, winner of the Nobel Prize, a former prisoner of Stalin’s camps, a critic of the communist regime. In 1974, the Soviet authorities expelled him from the USSR. He returned to Russia after 20 years. Solzhenitsyn died on August 3, 2008 in Moscow. In the same month, his name was assigned to the former Bolshoi Kommunistichesky Street in the Tagansky district. The first monument to a writer in Russia was opened in 2013 in Belgorod.
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