The erection of the monument to the People's Artist of the USSR Iosif Kobzon in the Tverskoy district of Moscow was under threat. The head of the town-planning commission of the council of deputies of the district, Ketevan Kharaidze, opposed the construction of the monument, explaining that the center of the capital "cannot be a backup for the Novodevichy cemetery." According to her, the installation can cost the budget 52 million rubles. In social networks, a number of residents also expressed disagreement with the initiative. In addition, the artist's widow Ninel Kobzon announced yesterday that she was hearing about the idea for the first time. The Moscow City Duma told the Daily Storm that the agreement on the installation of the monument could take months.
The head of the Moscow City Duma Commission on Culture and Mass Communications Yevgeny Gerasimov said that the initiative to erect a monument to Kobzon was preliminary, it was sent for approval to a number of departments.
On November 18, the Moscow City Duma adopted the draft law on the Moscow budget for 2021. The deputies will be able to propose amendments to it and discuss them on November 25. However, they are unlikely to have time to speak about the monument to Kobzon, Gerasimov said. He warned that agreement on the installation could take a long time, up to several months.
"Before assembling a commission in the Moscow City Duma on monumental art, it is necessary to obtain from various departments confirming documents that they agree, that they do not mind, including that residents do not mind - that is, municipal deputies must give their characteristics."- Evgeny Gerasimov explained to the Daily Storm. When the documents are collected, a meeting will be held in the commission on monumental art. If the commission approves the proposal, then it will be submitted to a meeting of the Moscow City Duma. Then a competition for the erection of the monument should be announced - and only then it will be possible to say in what time frame the monument will be ready.
The Daily Storm asked the head of the Moscow City Duma Commission on Culture if it is possible that sponsors will be attracted to install the monument. “If there is [monument erection sponsor] , then the budget will be grateful to him! No - then it will be city money. Joseph Davidovich is an honorary citizen of the city of Moscow, we have very few of them, he is the owner of awards, the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, he is the People's Artist of the USSR, Hero of Labor ", - said Gerasimov.
The head of the urban planning commission of the Council of Deputies of the Tver district of the capital Ketevan Kharaidze on November 21 in his Facebook account <u> said that they want to erect a monument to Joseph Kobzon on the Garden Ring. The municipal deputy, referring to the city authorities, said that up to 52 million rubles could be taken from the city budget for this.
“I am totally against it. The squares and boulevards of the Tverskoy region cannot be substitutes for the Novodevichy cemetery. This territory is already overloaded with a monumental work in the form of a monument to Kalashnikov , - she quoted her appeal to the administration. The deputy asked Muscovites how they feel about the idea of erecting a monument in the Tverskoy district. Some citizens opposed the idea, outraged that 52 million is, of course, a complete trash with a budget deficit.
On November 22, the widow of Joseph Kobzon, Ninel, said that for the first time she heard about plans to erect a monument to her husband in the Tver region. "It is planned [monument] For three years now, but so far I have nothing, no data on hand, no papers, nothing. This is what I am talking about, I walk, as if I initiate it ", - she told the radio station "Moscow speaking"
Municipal deputy Kharaidze wrote in her account on the social network that in September 2018, the president of the Russian Academy of Arts, sculptor Zurab Tsereteli, said that he was ready to donate the monument to Kobzon to the city authorities.
People's Artist of the USSR and State Duma Deputy Iosif Kobzon died on August 30, 2018 at the age of 80. For more than 20 years he has represented the interests of the inhabitants of the Trans-Baikal Territory in the lower house of parliament. The cause of his death was a prolonged illness. At the time of his death, the people's artist was already the fourth stage of cancer. The singer was buried in the Jewish part of the Vostryakovsky cemetery in Moscow next to his mother.
