A bust of the Soviet biologist Michurin was removed in Odessa
In Odesa, a bust of Soviet biologist Ivan Michurin was removed from the grounds of the Institute of Plant Breeding and Genetics. The monument was completely dismantled and removed from the institute’s grounds.
“The bust of Michurin has finally been dismantled in Odesa. Pushkin, Babel, and Vorontsov will be next,” the post reads.
Representatives of the institute noted in a comment to “Suspilne” that as of August 27, the monument had been completely dismantled and removed from the grounds. The work was carried out in accordance with the law banning the propaganda of Russian imperial policy and the decolonization of place names, as well as the order of the head of the Odesa Regional Military Administration dated July 26, 2024.
In 2024, the Michurin monument was added to the list of structures that the Odesa City Council was preparing for dismantling.
This was reported with reference to the civic organization “Decolonization. Ukraine.”
A monument to Hero of Ukraine Pavlo Petrychenko was unveiled in Kyiv.
As a reminder, the monument, which had stood for 87 years on Yevhen Konovalets’ grave in Rotterdam, was transported to his native village of Zashkiv in the Lviv region.
