By Victory Day, five monuments to the Great Patriotic War will be repaired in Irkutsk

In Irkutsk, monuments and memorial complexes will be repaired for the 70th anniversary of Victory, about 2.5 million rubles are allocated in the city budget for this work. The stele at Amur Cemetery and the Eternal Flame memorial, lit for the first time in 1975 and not repaired since, will be significantly renovated. Inscriptions will also be restored, surrounding areas improved, and benches, trash bins, and paving at several memorial sites in the city put in order.

By the anniversary of Victory Day in the Great Patriotic War, monuments will be repaired in the city of Irkutsk. About 2.5 million rubles have been allocated in the Irkutsk city budget for monument repair work. According to the Department of Urban Development, the stele at the Amur Cemetery and the Eternal Flame memorial are in need of major repairs.
The Eternal Flame in Irkutsk was lit for the first time in 1975; since then, the memorial complex has not been repaired. This year, 2015, it is planned to replace the deformed tiles inside the memorial and the chipped corner curb stones, and restore the joints along the perimeter of the granite parapet. The stele at the Amur Cemetery will also be painted and repaired. After that, the tiles under the monument will be partially relaid.
In addition, the memorial complex Alley of Veterans on the Lower Embankment and the monument at the Glazkovsky Cemetery require restoration of the inscriptions. Near the monument to employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs who died in the line of duty on Gagarin Boulevard, road repairs will be carried out, and the manhole covers will be raised to the level of the sidewalk. By Victory Day, the benches and trash bins near the monument to Marshal Zhukov in the Solnechny microdistrict and the tank Irkutsk Komsomolets will be washed and painted.
Today, Irkutsk has already begun active preparations for the 70th anniversary of Victory. A calendar of the city’s main cultural and mass events has already been developed.
Based on materials from the press service of the Irkutsk administration.