"Imperial History": The Soviet star will be removed from the home of Verka Serdyuchka on Khreshchatyk.

The Kyiv City Council has added the famous "House with a Star" on Khreshchatyk to the list of commemorative sites linked to the history and culture of Russia and the USSR that are to be removed from the city's public space. This was reported by the Deputy Chair of the Kyiv City State Administration, Anna Starostenko.

"The city continues to cleanse the urban environment of Russian meanings. The decision includes the dismantling of the star from the house on Khreshchatyk, monuments to Soviet propagandists, pedestals of Lenin's monuments, and so on," said Starostenko.

According to her, Russia employs "elements associated with imperial history as a platform to promote aggressive policies."

It is noteworthy that this house on Khreshchatyk is home to the famous Ukrainian artist Andriy Danilko, better known as Verka Serdyuchka.

In total, the list of structures slated for complete demolition includes 27 objects, along with another 20 that require corrections or partial dismantling of certain elements.

The objects that will be completely demolished include:

• monuments to Alexander Boychenko (on the grounds of Gymnasium No. 59) and Nikolai Ostrovsky (on the grounds of Gymnasium No. 191);
• the pedestals of the monument to Vladimir Lenin (Boulevard Taras Shevchenko, 1 and Yakov Hnyzdovsky St., 1-A);
• the memorial stone "Komsomol Alley" (at Academician Hlushkov Avenue, 40);
• the star on the roof of the building at 25 Khreshchatyk St.

Partial dismantling is required for:

• a plaque with a Russian-language quote from director Stanislav Govorukhin on the monument to Internationalist Soldiers (Lavrska St., 19). It is planned to be replaced with a plaque in Ukrainian dedicated to the Ukrainians who died during the criminal military invasion of the USSR in Afghanistan;
• on the monuments to Borys Paton and Ilya Repin, there are plans to replace the inscriptions in Russian with Ukrainian;
• the monogram featuring the imperial cipher of Alexander III, located at the entrance gates of the KNP "Saint Michael's Clinical Hospital of Kyiv" (formerly known as Alexandrovskaya Hospital), will be dismantled.

The Kyiv City Council also reminded that 117 similar objects or elements have already been removed from the public space of the capital.

"As of today, 87 objects remain undismantled, 12 of which have monument protection status," noted the press service of the KCS.

Recall that on November 15, monuments to Pushkin and Lermontov were dismantled in Kryvyi Rih.