006:2024:Columns. Memorial columns on Kashtak

A week after the installation of the columns, a paper signed by the consultant of the Department of Development and Land Use Control of the Administration of the Leninsky District of Tomsk, K. Kh. Akhtyamova, was attached to each column on the need to voluntarily dismantle the illegally placed object "a black wooden column with photographs of the repressed and the dates of their execution, installed on lands whose state property has not been demarcated." The deadline for voluntary dismantling was set until October 11, 2024.

The columns were not removed voluntarily.
The administration dismantled them on October 17, 2024.

The article covers the conflict around memorial columns with portraits of victims of Stalin's repressions, installed on Kashtachnaya Gora in Tomsk. The memorial signs, organized at the site of mass graves, contain images of people who died during the Great Terror. However, the city administration, citing the rules, ordered their removal. The public, including representatives of the descendants of the repressed, such as Vladimir Golitsyn and Maria Polivanova, are calling for the memorial columns to be preserved. The position was supported by historian and researcher Vasily Khanevich, who is ready to take on the approval of the installation of the memorials. The authorities proposed a compromise path to approval, which will allow the memorial signs to be preserved for the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repression.

List of names in the publication:

Metropolitan of Tomsk and Asino - Rostislav

Granddaughter of philosopher Gustav Shpet - Maria Polivanova

Muscovite, descendant of a repressed person - Vladimir Golitsyn

Researcher of the history of repressions, keeper of memory - Vasily Khanevich