Maxim Gorky monument to return to Belorussky Railway Station on 1 August

A monument to the famous Soviet writer Alexei “Maxim” Gorky will return to Tverskaya Zastava Square on 1 August, noted Alexei Zhdanov, the project’s chief architect from the Naslediye (Heritage) restoration workshop.

“We are currently planning to complete the Gorky monument’s base by 31 July. We have installed the foundation and are now facing it with tiles,” he said. Most of the tiles are authentic; the restorers studied and marked them, and it turned out that 21 tiles were missing, he noted. Four blocks also had to be replaced. “About 220 blocks and tiles are original,” Mr Zhdanov added. The restoration project is already complete.

There are plans to move the sculpture from Muzeon Arts Park to Tverskaya Zastava Square near Belorussky Railway Station in the early hours of 31 July. Various inserts and other components for installing the monument have already been prepared. And the pedestal will be further upgraded after the monument is in place.

The monument to Maxim Gorky was installed in a public garden opposite Belorussky Railway Station in 1951. In 2005, it was removed from the pedestal and relocated to Muzeon Arts Park in 2007.