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Dear guests, my name is Irina Kochetova.
I am a tour guide in St. Petersburg and its suburbs (certificate of state accreditation No. 06631) language is Russian.
I conduct different types of excursions: individual, group, thematic, walking, bus.
The topics are very diverse - from overviews of the city center and its main attractions to original ones, according to the individual preferences of our guests.
I can be useful to you in the widest aspect of excursion support, organizing transfers, assistance with accommodation...
I can quickly and competently develop an interesting excursion route according to your wishes.
Our city is so beautiful and large that it is very difficult to list everything that can be seen in it.
“You better not take your eyes off the city of Petrov, read the harmony in all its features...”, as the great poetess aptly said.
I will help you plunge into the past by visiting places of great love, hatred, intrigue...
You will enjoy views of the city from the water, as the Great Peter conceived this city, walk along canal embankments, bridges...
You will feel the spirit of the times, walking through the streets and places of literary characters Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Gogol... You will be fascinated by the splendor of the masterpieces of great architects - Rastrelli, Quarenghi, Rinaldi, Rossi.
You will come into contact with the mysticism and legends of the Great City, make wishes that will definitely come true.
We will go underground into the metro to see the underground “temples” of the Stalinist Empire style..
And many many others...
My contact details:
Order excursions:
phone and WhatsApp: +79052251813
My excursions:
- Sightseeing tour
- Hermitage
- Peterhof
- Tsarskoe Selo
- Jewish Petersburg
- Kronstadt
- Peterhof + Oranienbaum + Kronstadt
- Rivers and canals
- Night Petersburg
- Courtyards and front doors of St. Petersburg
- Russian Museum
- Petersburg for children
- Wedding excursions
- Mystical Petersburg
- Gatchina
- Pavlovsk
I was born in St. Petersburg (Leningrad), my parents lived here, and their parents too. I am a fourth generation Leningrader.
My work is my calling. I graduated from the University, art school and several advanced training courses.
Now I am a professional tour guide with 10 years of experience.
I will be happy to help you see all the most interesting and beautiful things here.
I can offer bus or walking tours. By your car or in any transport convenient for you.
My contact details:
Veronica Romashko
tel. +7 911 757-33-81
Excursions offered by a guide
First of all, I can recommend an excellent sightseeing tour:
We will see the historical center of the city, all the famous sights, visit places where dreams come true, hear interesting historical stories as well as myths and legends. And we'll take beautiful photos.
- We can walk around Peter and Paul Fortress or go to Peter's house. Let's see what the city was like originally. (This will take about 3-4 hours)
- Let's take a look at the huge Winter Palace. A tour of the state rooms and inspection of the most famous paintings in art galleries. (about 2 hours)
- We will visit the most beautiful suburbs and see fountains of Peterhof : Excursion to Peterhof with a visit to the fountain park and one of the palaces. (will take about 5-7 hours)
- We can explore the city of military glory in 1 day Kronstadt and Oranienbaum. (in 6-8 hours)
- Pushkin-Pavlovsk. (6-8 hours)
- Gatchina, its palaces and beautiful parks. (5-7 hours)
- For lovers of the Middle Ages: Vyborg with his antique fortress and park of Mon Repos. (8-10 hours)
- Pskov-Izborsk-Pechory: one of the first cities in the country, an ancient Kremlin, a fortress and an ancient monastery. (10-12 hours)
- Staraya Ladoga. Fortress and monasteries. (10 hours)
Let's start right from your hotel or home.
And although it is impossible to embrace the immensity, we will still try.
We will create a program taking into account your wishes.
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The “Green Belt of Glory” is a unique memorial complex, the monuments of which are installed in places where the city’s defense line lay during the siege of Leningrad. The complex stretches for 200 km and consists of more than 80 different monuments, obelisks and steles, as well as green spaces, memorial gardens and groves. It consists of the Big Blockade Ring and the Oranienbaum Bridgehead (Small Blockade Ring). It also includes monuments located along the Road of Life and stretching from the shores of Lake Ladoga to Rzhevka.
History of the complex
The very first monuments on the lines of defense of Leningrad appeared back in 1944-1945, when several concrete slabs, wooden monuments and obelisks were installed in the area where Leningraders stopped the Nazis.
The author of the idea of creating a memorial complex was Mikhail Aleksandrovich Dudin, a public figure and front-line writer; it was he who proposed erecting monuments and obelisks on the approaches to Leningrad, which would be part of a single complex and carry a common idea.
To build the complex, a huge amount of work was carried out to determine where exactly the city’s defense line lay. On the eve of the 20th anniversary of Victory Day, the first trees were planted and the first foundation stones were installed in places where monuments were to be erected in the future.
The construction of the monuments took place on a voluntary basis; ordinary Leningraders, workers and educational groups, and many factories were involved in the work. Each individual site where construction was planned was taken under the patronage of the district executive committees of the city and regional councils.
Monuments as part of the memorial complex
A large blockade ring stretched from St. Petersburg along the coast of the Gulf of Finland through Sestroretsk, Beloostrov, Lembolovo, Vaskelovo, along Lake Ladoga, through Shlisselburg, Kirovsk, Kolpino, Pulkovo Heights and Uritsk. On the southern border of the ring there are such monuments as “Kirovsky Val”, “Militia”, “Unconquered”, “Nevsky Threshold” and others.
The ensemble on the banks of the Neva includes “Nameless Height”, “Breakthrough”, and the “Oreshek” fortress. At the northern boundary of the ring, the ensemble of the Korel Isthmus includes such monuments as the “Lembolovskaya Stronghold”, “Sister” and the monument to heroic pilots. This blockade ring also includes monuments located some distance from the main border: “The Immortality of the Soldier”, a memorial in honor of the Auror heroes, as well as the “Kronstadt” memorial complex, located on the island of the same name.
The Small Blockade Ring includes such monuments as “Primorsky”, “Anchor”, “Gostilitsky”, “Coast of the Courageous”, Fort “Krasnaya Gorka” and others. The ensemble of the Road of Life includes such monuments as “Flower of Life”, “Katyusha”, “Broken Ring”. Also along the entire road there are memorial kilometer posts that run along the highway and railway.
Unfortunately, all the monuments are gradually being destroyed, falling into disrepair, and some of them remain at the stage of installing the first foundation stones. But despite the fact that the city and regional authorities do not have time to restore and restore all the monuments for the 70th anniversary of Victory Day, many memorials in the complex will be the sites of traditional celebrations, events and ceremonies in memory of the defenders of Leningrad.
March 22nd, 2011
On March 17, 2011, at the 18th Interregional Conference of Heads of Search Associations, in the report of the Deputy Head of the Department of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation for Perpetuating the Memory of Those Who Died in Defense of the Fatherland, I.G. Prokofiev, in connection with the work of the Ministry of Regional Development on identifying prospective memorial zones in the Leningrad Region, the memorial complex was mentioned "Green Belt of Glory"
This memorial complex was mentioned in the report for a reason. On January 27, 2009, at a meeting of the Russian organizing committee "Victory", held in Strelna in the Konstantinovsky Palace, the Governor of St. Petersburg V.I. Matvienko appealed to the President of the Russian Federation D.A. Medvedev with a request to include the "Green Belt of Glory" in the Federal Target Program "Preservation and reconstruction of military memorial sites in 2011-2015."
In particular, V.I. Matvienko addressed the president with the following words: “Dear Dmitry Anatolyevich! We fully support your proposal to restore all monuments of military glory for the 65th anniversary of the Victory. In St. Petersburg there are about 300 memorial complexes, monuments, obelisks dedicated to to the feat of our people during the Great Patriotic War. We have the unique, largest military memorial in the world "Green Belt of Glory", which is a monument of federal significance. It was created in 1965-1968 on the initiative of the poet Mikhail Dudin. It was built by the whole world and children and adults. The objects of this memorial, located on the territory of St. Petersburg, at the expense of the city budget, will, of course, be restored by the 65th anniversary of the Victory. However, the “Green Belt of Glory” stretches for 200 kilometers along the entire defense line of Leningrad and includes over 80 monuments Most of the objects are in need of serious reconstruction.
Therefore, we ask you to support the inclusion in the federal program of restoration of monuments dedicated to the events of the Great Patriotic War, the restoration of all memorials of the “Green Belt of Glory”.
(Transcript report on the meeting of the Russian Organizing Committee “Victory”, Strelna, Konstantinovsky Palace January 27, 2009, 14:00 http://president.rf/transcripts/2960)
According to the official portal of the Administration of St. Petersburg, the president “supported the initiatives of the governor of St. Petersburg and instructed the heads of federal departments to work out ways to resolve these issues” (http://www.gov.spb.ru/press/foto/2701konst).
"GREEN BELT OF GLORY" was conceived as a complex of monuments and green spaces on the line of defense of parts of the Leningrad Front. The layout was based on the line at which in September 1941 Soviet troops stopped the advance of German troops. Monuments were erected along the 200-kilometer blockade ring, the “Road of Life” and on the Oranienbaum bridgehead.
Work on the memorial complex began with the publication on February 23, 1965 in the newspaper Smena of an appeal by poet M. A. Dudin, a participant in the defense of Leningrad, who wrote on behalf of war veterans: “For nine hundred days and nights, near the very walls of Leningrad, dug up with trenches and dugouts, entangled in barbed wire, there passed the mortal line of defense, the ring of our hatred and hope. Here the Leningraders held back the onslaught of the enemy, from here the defenders of Leningrad went on the offensive and in their holy rightness, together with the peoples of their Motherland, they forced fascism to raise its hands...
Let every Leningrader, young and old, consider it his duty and honor to plant a tree on this mortal line on this day, in place of the blockade ring, a green ring of peace will grow around Leningrad, let it mark for eternity with its green noise the line of our courage. eternal life and memory is our duty."
And the work began. The project for the general layout of the memorial complex was developed by employees of the architectural and planning department of the Leningrad City Executive Committee and the 1st workshop of the Lenproekt Institute (architects G. N. Buldakov, V. L. Gaikovich, M. A. Sementovskaya). The design of specific monuments was carried out by sculptors and architects on a voluntary basis. Even students designed monuments. Construction work was also carried out by the population and with its voluntary donations. Back then it was called the “people’s construction method.” Collectives from industrial enterprises, educational institutions, and military personnel were involved in the work. In those days, such a form of charity was also practiced as voluntary participation in subbotniks, when workers and engineers went to work on their days off, and their salaries were transferred to public needs. Of course, party and Komsomol organizations became the organizers of the work. The executive committees of district councils took patronage over individual sections of the memorial complex.
The work was in full swing. On the eve of the 20th anniversary of the Victory (1965), foundation stones were installed at the sites of future memorials and the first trees were planted. By May 9, 1967, construction of the 1st stage of the memorial complex was completed. The 2nd stage was successfully completed by the 30th anniversary of the Victory (1975). The construction and improvement of the “Green Belt of Glory” continued until the mid-1980s.
The total length of the “Green Belt of Fame” was more than 200 km. It included over 80 monuments, obelisks and other memorial structures, united into 35 memorial complexes. On the Road of Life route there are memorial kilometer pillars along the Leningrad-shore of Lake Ladoga highway and along the Irinovskaya line of the Oktyabrskaya Railway. The memorial complexes include some monuments built before the creation of the Green Belt of Glory, mass graves, pillboxes, dugouts, and samples of military equipment. Also included in the “Green Belt of Glory” were some monuments created after the implementation of its concept in the 60-70s. The symbolic center of the “Green Belt of Glory” was the Monument to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad, opened on May 9, 1975 on Victory Square.
Books have been published about the memorial complex, the most famous of which is Yu. A. Lukyanov’s book “A Monument 200 Kilometers Long”, which has gone through several reprints, and booklets. A series of badges was issued depicting a diagram of the memorial complex and its individual monuments.
But still, the “Green Belt of Glory” was much more fortunate than the memorial complex in the battle zone for breaking the siege of Leningrad 1941-43 in the Kirov region: Sinyavino, Roshcha Kruglaya, Lipki, Tortolovo, Gaitolovo, Voronovo, Porechye, Karbusel, Pogostye, etc. .
As befits a Leningrader of my generation, I came into contact with the “Green Belt of Glory” in childhood. From the dacha in Melnichny Stream we went by car to swim in Lake Ladoga. That's when I saw The Broken Ring for the first time. “What is this?” I asked my father. “This is the Broken Ring.” “Why is it broken?” “Because they broke through the ring of the enemy blockade around Leningrad.” And then, at the age of 6, I was completely satisfied with this explanation. And I also saw along the sides of the road there are ugly dirty white kilometer posts “Road of Life”.
But now I cannot be satisfied with such an explanation. I don’t understand the significance of the broken ring in the Vsevolozhsk region, because I know that they broke through and lifted the enemy blockade in completely different places. I don’t understand why the “Nameless Height” monument, dedicated to the fighters of the Ivanovo patch, was erected on the RIGHT bank of the Neva. The Ivanovo patch was on the LEFT bank of the Neva! Now every schoolchild knows about this. Really, 20 years after the war, no one knew about this? How could it come to mind to dedicate this same ridiculous structure on the RIGHT bank of the Neva to the soldiers who participated in the battles at the SINYAVIN HEIGHTS? Where is the right bank of the Neva and where is Sinyavino!?
The very concept of the “Green Belt of Glory”, built along the line of the blockade of Leningrad in September 1941, rejects FIVE ATTEMPTS TO BREAK THE BOTTLENECK BLOCKADE in 1941-1943. and even the very lifting of the blockade in 1944 was deeply flawed. The granite obelisk in Gostilitsy was conceived and implemented outside the Green Belt of Glory project, and only later included in it, contrary to its main concept. Of the fifty monuments erected on the long-suffering battlefield of the Kirov region, only six were included in the “Green Belt of Glory.” These are the granite obelisk installed at the same time as the Goslitsky one on the Nevsky Piglet, the “Rubezhny Stone”, the T-34-85 tank there, the museum-diorama “Breaking the Siege of Leningrad” with the same T-34-85 and the obelisk on the 66th kilometer of the Murmansk highway . No thought was given to the authenticity of the tank models. They didn’t mix up the shore, and that’s okay. (http://www.alexandriaguide.ru/info/war/proriv_blokadi_lenengrada.html)
There can be no question that the memorial complex “Green Belt of Glory” was built “at key sites of the defense of Leningrad” (http://www.lenobl.ru/culture/tourism/route/glory). To say so is a great blasphemy towards the soldiers of the Leningrad and Volkhov fronts, who lost their lives and health in the Sinyavino and Pogostye swamps, in Porechye and Karbusel. It is unfortunate that even Z.P. Kaushik agrees in his article that the Green Belt of Glory project marks “strategic points of military operations” for Leningrad.
At the same time, the “Green Belt of Glory” is a fairly popular object, the people’s interest in which is still very high. Look at the photo of the Yandex page: 2 million entries for the request for the “Green Belt of Glory”! If we move away from Soviet assessments of its concept (“strategic points of military operations”) and the artistic value of the vast majority of its monuments (Yu. Lukyanov: “original, modern in style monuments and structures”), then this memorial complex is a good basis for on its basis, through attracting the material resources of the rich state, the spiritual efforts of the scientific (historians, local historians) and creative (sculptors, architects, mosaic artists, poets) intelligentsia, to create a new Monument to the Defenders of Leningrad. A new memorial zone, one of the memorial zones dedicated to various events of the defense and liberation of Leningrad.
Undoubtedly, next to the reconstructed “Green Belt of Glory” memorial zone, a Memorial zone should then appear in the area of the battles to break the siege of Leningrad 1941-43 in the Kirov district of the Leningrad region.
V.I. Matvienko’s appeal to the President of the Russian Federation D.A. Medvedev on the inclusion of the “Green Belt of Glory” in the Federal Target Program “Preservation and Reconstruction of War Memorial Facilities in 2011-2015” and the President’s support for this initiative of the Governor of St. Petersburg, roads I also like the fact that in this way the bias towards the improvement of cemeteries as part of the work under the Federal Target Program, allowed by the Ministry of Defense, is corrected. The memory of our military history is not only in the graves, but also in caring for the places where the most intense military events took place. These memorable and dear places to every St. Petersburger are worthy of works of high architectural and landscape art, expressive sculptures and real parks.
The Battle of Leningrad lasted from 1941 to 1944. In memory of the heroic defenders of the city and the whole country, who laid down their lives in bloody battles, a complex of memorial structures was created on the lines of defense of Leningrad, which was called the Green Belt of Glory. It was erected in 1965-68 on the initiative of public figure, front-line writer Mikhail Dudin. The idea of building such a complex arose at the time when Mikhail Alexandrovich worked in the Peace Committee (Leningrad). Dudin himself is the author of the inscriptions that are located on the propylaea near the entrance to the Piskarevskoye cemetery, as well as on the monument to the heroic defenders of the city.Before starting to design and create the memorial complex, a huge amount of work was carried out to clarify the locations of troops and the location of the defense line in September 1941. It was carried out by the forces of the Headquarters of the Leningrad Military District. The layout of the Green Belt of Glory was connected with the defense line of Leningrad, where the enemy was stopped. It was decided to create the memorial using a nationwide construction method, so many Leningrad residents and all the largest enterprises in the city took part in the creation of the complex.
The nation-wide construction began on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the Victory, when foundation stones were placed and the first seedlings were planted at key positions in the construction of the memorial. The areas where construction was planned to take place were patronized by the district executive committees of the regional and city councils. Just like the defense of Leningrad, the construction of the complex became a universal task. The personnel of military units, teams of various enterprises and educational institutions were involved in it.
The length of the Green Belt of Glory is 200 km. It includes green spaces and 26 main monuments. In addition, seven monuments are located on the Road of Life - this was the name during the siege of the only road laid across Lake Ladoga, thanks to which communication was carried out with the besieged city. Nine more monuments are located on the Primorsky bridgehead. This was the name of the part of the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland, which was cut off from our troops and, nevertheless, played a huge role in the defense of the city.
This incredible-scale project was created in the 50-60s by a team of architects under the leadership of GN Buldakov. Moreover, all work was carried out on a voluntary basis. The Large and Small blockade rings that make up the Green Belt of Glory pass along the actually existing lines of defense and follow their contours. It consists of more than 80 steles, monuments and obelisks. Constructed on Leningrad's Victory Square, the monument dedicated to the heroic defenders of Leningrad is the geographical and semantic center of the complex.
Time destroys everything, the stone from which monuments are created crumbles, iron and copper become covered with a patina of time. Only the gratitude of descendants, who are obliged to preserve the memory of those who defended their right to life at the cost of their blood, should not fall into disrepair.
The idea of Mikhail Dudin was abandoned and distorted back in the seventies of the last century
The authorities of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region do not have time to put in order and restore all the monuments of the Green Belt of Glory ensemble for the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Leningrad from the fascist blockade. Work on the inventory and survey of monuments began too late.
It still takes time to resolve property issues. For example, in the Leningrad region, 24 out of 27 memorials do not have an owner, and correspondence with the Federal Property Management Agency to determine the ownership of the objects has just begun. Officials from the two regions promise to put the entire complex in order by the 70th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War. The city allocates about 100 million for its part, and the region - 113 million.
And that's good. The matter moved from a dead point. But it’s still important how it goes, because the huge complex of the “Green Belt of Glory” is still an ensemble. Ambiguous, heterogeneous, and therefore requires an integrated and professional approach. If it is restored as has been done so far - painting the slabs with gray or red paint to give it a look (we previously raised this topic in the issue dated September 12, 2012) - then such restoration makes no sense.
How much does your repair cost?
Two red carnations on the granite slab soaked in Neva dampness of the “Rubezhny Kamen” - the main monument of the Nevsky Patch and one of the monuments of the “Green Belt of Glory”, an ensemble of memorials that, surrounding St. Petersburg, remind us of the siege of Leningrad. Two red carnations on dark granite. Whenever you arrive, there will be flowers there. I don't know who brings them. To my shame, when I come to war monuments, I remember the flowers at the very last moment, when I stand and look at the carnations that were not placed by me. But, thank God, someone remembers this. So it was this time. The sightseers, one by one, emerged from the bus, listening to the story of the great battle, and averted their gaze from the carnations. And everyone wanted to do something good right away. One man, apparently not a poor man, even asked the guide how much it would cost to repair the monument. The guide turned out to be knowledgeable. And he named the amount that was recently calculated at the museum agency of the Leningrad region. Four million rubles. The businessman, apparently counting on different estimates from the capitals, did not expect this, and, putting on an awkwardly thoughtful look, hurried to board the bus.
We don't know how this story ends. Maybe the businessman will still count his assets and contact the museum agency...
The alleys didn't reach the belt
In fact, that’s how it was. “Green Belt of Glory” is a national monument. The idea was invented by the poet Mikhail Dudin. The complex of monuments with alleys and groves connecting them was supposed to run along the blockade ring, and the monuments were to stand at the sites of specific battles, at the lines where the enemy troops were stopped. The project of the “Green Belt of Glory” and individual memorials on a voluntary basis was developed by a team of architects led by Gennady Buldakov in 1958 - 1964. The monuments were erected by Leningrad residents and city enterprises on their own. For the 20th anniversary of the Victory, on the “Green Belt of Glory” there were, if not monuments, then foundation steles. But then the enthusiasm died down, and the steles remained standing somewhere. The maintenance of the monuments was also entrusted to nearby economic entities - if not district administrations, then factories.
And this became a mistake. Almost immediately the ensemble ceased to be an ensemble: each organization was responsible for its own facility (which were spread out over a 200-kilometer ring), and no one thought big. It never reached the belt of alleys and groves.
The ensemble ceased to be an ensemble
The concept continued to fall apart. In 1974, the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR issued Resolution No. 624, by which the ensemble was named the “Green Belt of Glory of Leningrad”, and its memorials were recognized as historical monuments of federal significance. But to simplify the maintenance of military monuments in Leningrad and the region, the resolution was called “On the addition and partial amendment of the Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR of August 30, 1960 No. 1327 “On further improvement of the protection of cultural monuments in the RSFSR” - they included in the ensemble of the “Green Belt of Glory” monuments of the “Road of Life” and “Oranienbaum Bridgehead” memorial complexes, which were created by other architects and carried other meanings. Which ones are clear from the names.
Buldakov’s team then protested. The architects said that they created precisely the “Green Belt of Glory”. But you cannot make amendments to the resolution of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR, as you can to the general plan of St. Petersburg.
It remains that way. The document mixed ideas and concepts into one heap. And the local historians who wrote books about the war memorials of Leningrad only broadcast this decree.
What happened as a result? Thirty-two monuments, each of which was looked after in every possible way: here a factory or a military unit tinted the stones for the holidays, and there the district administration put up flower beds.
14, 19, 32 or 80?
Well, then, closer to perestroika, they stopped courting. St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region became different subjects of the Federation. By the end of the century, the authorities issued instructions to the districts to put the monuments in order. But this doesn't solve the problem. As we have already said, many properties do not even have an owner.
The quantity is also unclear. The resolution of the Council of Ministers spoke of 32 monuments, eight of which were located on the territory of Leningrad. In 2001, the order of the administration of St. Petersburg spoke of 14 monuments of the “Green Belt of Glory” in the city. Now the Committee for Culture of St. Petersburg states that the “Green Belt of Glory” consists of 37 memorial complexes, which include more than 80 monuments. And the city property management committee claims that of these, 19 objects are included in the property register of St. Petersburg. The Leningrad region counted 27 monuments.
So how many monuments are there in the “Green Belt of Glory”? And what to do with them?
Steles and poplars replaced
This is where the answer is. The author of the program for the reconstruction and replacement of monuments of the Green Belt of Glory, Zoya Koshik, lives in St. Petersburg. At one time, she and enthusiastic architects developed such a project. It was accepted and even found funding (we talked about this in detail in the article “The Green Belt of Glory” fell apart into separate monuments” in the issue of September 12, 2012). But then somehow everything was forgotten. In short, its essence is to create a unified directorate for the maintenance, reconstruction, replacement, etc., etc., etc. of the monuments of the “Green Belt of Glory,” where, in addition to the staff, there would be architects and restorers. And let this directorate deal with all military monuments, if not individual monuments, then ensembles - “Dear Life”, “Oranienbaum Bridgehead”... This would be logical. Then it would be possible to work systematically: restore what was lost, finally replace the mortgage steles with monuments, in some places in the alleys replace the poplars that were planted in a hurry on certain dates with other tree species... As Zoya Petrovna explained to the VP correspondent, Each composition had a spiritual component, expressed through artistic means, but steles and tools do not serve such a task.
Nobody's monuments
The idea of a single directorate is, one might say, in the air. As Governor Georgy Poltavchenko said in his interview with Evening Petersburg, it would be correct to transfer the ensemble of the Green Belt of Glory into one hand, so that some single directorate would be responsible for the condition of the monuments. But taking into account the January celebrations, as well as the 70th anniversary of the Great Victory, the authorities decided that it was now more important to put the “Green Belt of Glory” in order.
This issue was also discussed in the neighboring region. As Vice-Governor Nikolai Yemelyanov said at a meeting of the advisory council under the governor of the Leningrad region for the affairs of war veterans, labor, armed forces and law enforcement agencies, in November 2012, through the presidential embassy, they approached with a proposal to create a single museum complex that would be responsible for the ensemble “ Green Belt of Glory" in two regions. But there was no solution.
As a result, an inventory was carried out in both regions. And in the Leningrad region, 24 out of 27 monuments do not have an owner. For it to appear, the objects must be registered with the Federal Property Management Agency. Letters have been written there, but no response yet. The subjects also compiled a summary calculation of the necessary funding for repair and restoration work. In St. Petersburg this amount is about 100 million rubles, and in the Leningrad region - 113.42 million rubles.
In general, the anniversary is coming, there is money. Is there a spiritual component?
Let's summarize. The “Green Belt of Glory”, as conceived by Mikhail Dudin, is still not completed. Of course, rings of alleys and groves can no longer be grown, but the foundation steles must be replaced with monuments. But for this, the legendary memorial must have one owner.
