Will Dzerzhinsky return to Lubyanka?

Today, October 11, the deputy chairman of the Moscow City Duma, a member of the Commission on Culture and Mass Communications, Andrei Metelsky supported the idea of ​​returning the monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky to Lubyanskaya Square.

“I think you can restore it, return and put it in place. But then it is not clear why it was to clean it. If they say that the money is allocated for this, then the process should be finished, ”Metelsky said on the air of the Russian News Service .

Earlier, the Moskosk Expertise reported the intention to restore seven Moscow monuments, including the Dzerzhinsky monument. The total cost of work will be about 50 million rubles, the deadlines have not yet been announced.

Now the monument is located in the Museon Arts Park at the central house of the artist, where he was postponed by the decree of the Moscow City Council on August 22, 1991 after an unsuccessful attempt by the State Emergency Committee.