Restoration of the monument to Minin and Pozharsky completed in Moscow
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On Red Square, the restoration of the monument to Kuzma Minin and Prince Dmitry Pozharsky was completed, which lasted almost two years. Today, October 31, temporary scaffolding was removed. The total cost of the restoration was about 50 million rubles.
The monument is included in the complex of the State Historical Museum. Its director Alexei Levykin said that preparations for restoration began in 2016. In January 2022, the sculptural composition was dismantled from the pedestal. More than 500 kg of technological framework was removed from the sculptures. Also eliminated defects in the shell of the monument and bas-reliefs.
The head of the Ministry of Culture, Olga Lyubimova, said that the department allocated more than 30 million rubles for the restoration, the rest of the money was received with the help of the people’s collection. “Such a complex restoration costs about 50 million rubles,” she said at an event dedicated to the completion of the work (quoted by TASS). At the end of August 2018, when the fundraising was announced, the restoration was estimated at 46 million rubles.
An 18-ton statue of citizen Kuzma Minin and Prince Dmitry Pozharsky is the first monumental sculptural monument erected in Moscow in 1818 (in the presence of Emperor Alexander I). Restoration work on the monument was carried out in 1964 and 1967.
In July, the monument was returned to the pedestal, after which the improvement of the area around the sculptural composition began. The monument is planned to be opened on November 4, 2022 on National Unity Day.
Details – in the material “Kommersant” “Minin and Pozharsky were moved to the Kremlin”.
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