Kazakhstan: do not plan to restore destroyed monument to Nazarbayev

Taldykorgan’s authorities have not yet decided the future of destroyed by the demonstrators of the monument to the first president of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev on the central square, writes Sputnik Kazakhstan.

Note that the monument to Nazarbayev was demolished on January 5 during the mass riots. The statue in the fall split into several parts. It is known that on the central square of the city, the monument to Nazarbayev stood about five years, he was established in November 2016. And while local authorities decided to postpone its recovery.

“Regeneration work is held in full swing in Taldykorgan. Restore the destroyed building of the regional akimat. Repair of administrative buildings of the urban and regional police, as well as other state facilities affected by mass riots. Regarding the decision on the destroyed monument of the first president, then to this We will return the question later. This topic will be discussed only after the restoration of all objects in the city, “the head of the Department of Culture, Archives and Documentation of the Almaty Region Gulmira Kalkabaeva said.