The Arbitration Court of the Vologda region demanded that the monument to Joseph Stalin be removed from the museum's territory in Vologda and return it to the creator of the monument. This is evidenced by the record in the file of arbitration cases.
"To satisfy the claim in full," the case file says.
The entrepreneur must return 10.5 million rubles for the monument to the budget of the Vologda region.
As EADaily reported, the monument was opened in December 2024, it is installed on the territory of the Vologda Link State Museum-Reserve.
In April of this year, the regional prosecutor's office appealed to the Arbitration Court with a lawsuit against the museum, as well as entrepreneur Ekaterina Lozhenitsyna. The supervisory authority demanded to invalidate the contract for the creation of the monument, return the monument itself to the entrepreneur, and collect 10.5 million rubles from her in favor of the museum. The Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Finance of the Vologda Region were involved in the case as third parties.
The regional government then emphasized that the prosecutor's office was challenging the purchase, and not the very fact of the monument's installation.
"Only the legal nuances of the paperwork procedure are being discussed, and not the fate of the monument," the Vologda governor explained.
The monument was created by sculptor Konstantin Kubyshkin, the sketch was chosen personally by the governor of the Vologda region Georgy Filimonov.