A monument to soldiers of the Great Patriotic War has been demolished in the Ilyinsky Settlement of the Kirov Region.

      Check-up of the head of local administration Tatyana Yakimova is being run on the issue. Presently the dismantled and partially destroyed monument is kept in the Ilyinsky Settlement.

      “The investigator examined the incident site jointly with a specialist of the architecture department, an expert in charge of material and cultural heritage, local authorities, representatives of artists’ and sculptors’ associations. All of them are expected to answers the questions: whether this monument posed a security threat the population if kept further on and whether it was possible to restore it without dismantling”, - the Investigation Committee emphasized.

      In expert opinion will be concluded on the basis of the check-up and experts’ findings.