Monument to Stalin to be opened in Yakutsk by Victory Day
YAKUTSK. May 6 (Interfax) - A bust to Joseph Stalin will be opened in Yakutsk on May 8, First Secretary of the Communist Party Republican Committee, Viktor Gubarev, told Interfax.
"Activists of the Yakutia Council of Veterans were negotiating with Anabar Diamonds for a year. As a result, General Director Matvey Yevseyev agreed to set the bust to Stalin at the company's office," Gubarev said.
Press secretary of Yakutsk Mayor Aysen Nikolayev, Irina Yefimova, said that the municipal administration head was not opposed to the initiative of the World War II veterans.
It has been reported that Yakutia's communists asked the local authorities for the first time for a site to set a monument to Joseph Stalin in July 2007. They attributed the request to Stalin's battle achievements and the coming 90th anniversary of the October Revolution.
The Yakutia Council of Veterans sent a letter with the same request to Yakutia's authorities in 2010.
Gubarev said in 2010 that the bust to Stalin would be set in any case even if the municipal authorities would not allocate a site for the monument.