Yekaterinburg City Hall called the installation of Last Address memorial plaques "unauthorized"

Yekaterinburg City Hall called the installation of Last Address memorial plaques "unauthorized" because they violate the architectural appearance and are placed "at random"

The Department of Architecture, Urban Planning, and Land Relations Regulation of the Yekaterinburg City Hall (Glavarkhitektura) has issued methodological recommendations for the design and placement of memorial plaques on building facades. They say that the city is seeing the "unauthorized installation" of plaques from the Last Address project, which commemorates the victims of political repression.

The city hall's complaints are that the artistic design of the Last Address plaques "is not optimal for memorial plaques": the size is too small, their installation often leads to an excess of additional facade elements and disrupts the architectural appearance of buildings, and the placement location "is random in nature."

The publication Vecherniye Vedomosti, which reviewed these recommendations, notes that they are not mandatory. But department director Ruslan Gabdrakhmanov instructed the department's architecture division and urban environment division to follow the recommendations.

Whether this will lead to any consequences for the Last Address plaques that have already been installed is unknown.

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