Podilskyi city Council of Odessa region on 28 September adopted a report On the reburial of the legendary Soviet military leader Grigory Kotovsky in city cemetery number 1, said the head of the city Council Elena Shubina.
at the session of the Podolsk city Council parliamentary the vast majority supported the draft decision "On the transfer of the object of the monument of history of local value" to the city cemetery number 1, informs " UKRINFORM ".
"The remains of Kotovsk, which now rested in the so-called tomb-tomb in Podolsk, will be reburied at the city cemetery number 1. Before performing the ritual procedures of the city Council, in accordance with the requirements of the law On decommunization, forms a coordinating Council under the Department of culture of the city Council, determine the place of reburial in advance and will report On conclusions and decisions on this issue, the Ministry of culture of Ukraine ", - said cubina. Remember, in April in the town of Kotovsk (after decommunization - Podolsk) in Odessa region of Ukraine, vandals hacked into the abandoned crypt of the participant of the Civil war, Grigory Kotovsky, hoping to steal from this place valuable artifacts. In the city of Kotovsk told that after the destruction of the Soviet Union tour the Mausoleum where he kept the embalmed body Kotovsky, ended due to an emergency wealth, which came the construction for lack of payment. Now local authorities and the public decide how to proceed With a Museum: some propose to restore it, other ? disassembled, and the body buried. 1st vault for Kotovsk was built in the city, then called Ursula, in 1925, immediately after the death of the commander. Since 1934 the mausoleum conducted tours, solemnly took the pioneers and held rallies. In 1941, occupied the city the Nazis destroyed the sarcophagus and made this place the Remains of Kotovsk. Night local railway workers dug up a body and hid it until the arrival of the red army. The mausoleum in Kotovsk was completely renovated in 1965. In April 2015 the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted the law prohibiting public use of and propaganda of the Communist and national socialist symbols in the country. Ukrainian Institute of national memory (winp) in mid-August of last year recommended to rename 908 towns and villages in the country in connection With the adopted by the Verkhovna Rada law " the condemnation of the Communist regime."

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