The center of Kyiv will still be turned into a cemetery
On Instytutska Street in Kyiv, the site of the deaths of people during the Euromaidan in 2014, preparations have begun for the construction of the "National Memorial Complex of the Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred – Museum of the Revolution of Dignity," reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
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For the construction of the museum, a site has been allocated at Institutskaya 3, where the Republican Exhibition Pavilion was once located. In recent years, the site was a hole overgrown with trees opposite the upper exit from the Khreshchatyk metro station. The area has now been cleared of vegetation and fenced off with signs. The same signs were installed along the street. Institutskaya, part of which is also included in the territory of the future museum. Parking near the site is now prohibited, which is enforced by a police officer. Utility services also cleaned the area near the “Heavenly Hundred” memorial near the metro exit.
The Organizing Committee for the development of the National Memorial Complex of the “Heavenly Hundred”, the Museum of the “Revolution of Dignity” began work in April 2017. The decision to allocate a site for the museum on the street. Institutskaya 3-5 was adopted in May 2017. In the fall of 2017, the Ministry of Culture held a competition for the construction project of the facility “National Memorial Complex of the Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred - Museum of the Revolution of Dignity.”
Kyiv's city center will be turned into a cemetery after all.