The Moscow prosecutor's office has declared illegal the demolition of the monument to Dzerzhinsky on Lubyanskaya Square

In December last year, the organization applied to the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation with a request to check the legality of dismantling this monument. The Metropolitan Prosecutor's Office conducted a check on this appeal.

"According to its results, the prosecutor's office did not find legitimate grounds for dismantling the monument to Dzerzhinsky on Lubyanskaya Square", - the head of the organization commented to TASS. He thanked the prosecutor's office for carefully checking their appeal.

It's worth reminding that the monument to Dzerzhinsky on the Lubyanka was erected in December 1958. Its authors were the sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich and the architect Grigory Zakharov. In 1991, the demonstrators wanted to demolish this monument on their own, then the local authorities decided to dismantle it. In the same year, the monument was placed in the Muzeon park. The capital's mayor's office tried several times to return the monument to the Lubyanka. In particular, in 2002, such an initiative was made by the former mayor of the city, Yuri Luzhkov. Due to public outcry, he soon abandoned the initiative. In 2013, Moscow City Duma deputies proposed to restore the monument and return it to the square, but this never happened. In 2015, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation collected signatures for the return of the monument to Lubyanskaya Square, but the situation with the return of the monument also did not progress beyond collecting signatures.