complex of three sculptural elements of the monument
Material
metal, granite, bronze
Height
35 m (115 ft)
Beginning date
1978
Completion date
1982
Opening date
Anniversary date of the October Revolution (7 November 1982)
Dedicated to
Ukrainian people Pereiaslav Agreement (originally)
Dismantled date
Partially: 26 April 2022[2] 30 April 2024[3]
Because of Ukrainian decommunization laws it shall not be rebuilt in its current form.[2]
The Arch of Freedom of the Ukrainian People (Ukrainian: Арка свободи українського народу, romanized: Arka svobody ukrainskoho narodu), formerly known as Peoples' Friendship Arch (Ukrainian: Арка дружби народів, romanized: Arka druzhby narodiv) is a monument in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. It was opened on 7 November 1982, amidst the celebration of the 1,500th Anniversary of Kyiv, to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the USSR and the "reunification of Ukraine with Russia in 1654" (the Pereiaslav Agreement as it was known in the Soviet Union).[2]
The sculpture under the arch, which depicted a Ukrainian worker and a Russian worker standing together, was dismantled in April 2022 amidst the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[2][4] On 17 April 2024 the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy removed the official status of the monument and allowed its dismantling.[5] On 25 April 2024 the Kyiv City State Administration announced that the monument would not be demolished but would "receive a new concept."[6] This despite the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory had been advocating "complete dismantling."[7] On 30 April 2024 the sculptural composition (weighting more then 6,000 ton) of 20 elements that hounered the Pereiaslav Agreement was dismanteled.[3]
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^ ab"The Pereyaslav Council Monument under the Arch of Friendship of Peoples is being dismantled in Kyiv". Ukrainska Pravda (in Ukrainian). 30 April 2024. Retrieved 30 April 2024.
^Tondo, Lorenzo; Koshiw, Isobel (26 April 2022). "Friends no longer, Ukraine removes Russian statues and street names". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
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