About this reported in KMDA.
“City communal services are starting to dismantle the composition in honor of the Pereyaslav Council under the arch “Freedom of the Ukrainian People”. Dismantling may take several days, as the structure is quite massive. It consists of 20 elements weighing about 6,000-7,000 tons.” – says the news.
specialists previously studied the structure in order to preserve its integrity during dismantling and avoid damage. In the future, the monument will be kept in the State Aviation Museum of Ukraine named after O. K. Antonov.
The sculptural composition in honor of the Pereyaslav Council was part of the “Arch of Friendship of Peoples” monument. In the official ideology of the USSR, the Pereyaslav Rada had the significance of a key event in the course of “the reunification of the Ukrainian people with the fraternal Russian people.”
