Kyiv City State Administration and Culture Ministry of Ukraine expect to open a memorial complex to the heroes of Heavenly Hundred in Feb. 2015, on the occasion of the anniversary of the tragic events on the Independence Square, Chief Architect of Kyiv Serhiy Tselovalnyk said at a press conference on Wednesday.
Kyiv City State Administration and Culture Ministry will prepare and
conduct the corresponding memorial design competition together.
According to the preliminary schedule of the contest, public
discussion of the program and the conditions of the competition will
last until May 14, and the participants will be registered by the middle
of June 2014. The participants can submit their suggestions regarding
the memorial complex until August 22 and the results of the contest will
be summed up until the middle of Oct. 2014.
The construction of the complex is expected to take about three months. It will be built from Nov. 2014 until Feb. 2015.
The best of the suggested designs will be established by an Internet
poll and a council of public experts, which is currently being created
and is expected to consist of 30 people.
According to Chief Architect of Kyiv, the organizers of the
competition have determined four locations for the memorial complex: two
places on Instytutska Street located across the road from one another,
where the shooting occurred in late February; the area between
staircases leading to Zhovtnevy Palace from Instytutska Street; and the
turn from Hrushevskoho Street onto Park Alley.
Head of the Kyiv City State Administration Volodymyr Bondarenko said
that the construction of the memorial wouldn’t be funded by the state.
“We have planned to fund the memorial with public money: people’s
donations; without any kind of state funding,” Bondarenko said.
He also expressed hope that they would manage to find philanthropists who would fund the construction of the memorial complex.
