Soviet physicist, Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov. File photoSUKHUM, Apr 10The Coordinating Union of Organizations of Russian Compatriots (KSORS) on its website criticized the renaming of Academician Sakharov Street in the center of Sukhum, stating that in this way the Russian trace in the republic is erased. On April 7, deputies of the city assembly renamed Academician Sakharov Street in the center of the Abkhaz capital. The renaming also affected Scottish Street at the foot of the Sukhumi Mountain, where Villa Aloisi is located — one of the most beautiful architectural monuments in the city. They began to bear these names after 1993, when Abkhazia defended its independence from Georgia as a result of a war that lasted more than a year. Now these streets are named after Givi Agrba, who in different years held the posts of the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the State Security Service of Abkhazia, and Vladimir Arshba, the first minister of defense of the republic. >The Moscow City Duma approved the installation of monuments to Fidel Castro and Andrei Sakharov «Sakharov is a man of world renown, respected in Russia and in the West. He supported the people of Abkhazia, calling Georgia a small empire … How many more significant people supported independent Abkhazia? Not one. But the street The Scottish was named in response to the erection in the city of Kilmarnock of a monument to the soldiers of Abkhazia who fell for the freedom and independence of the Motherland. No one in the West, except for the Scots, dared to erect a monument in honor of the soldiers of Abkhazia and maintain the status of sister city with Sukhum, «the document says. it is noted that it is necessary to perpetuate the memory of the heroes of Abkhazia by erecting monuments to them in the parks and squares of the capital, while renaming streets can damage the collective historical self-awareness. «Our history is being erased — the history of the emergence of Abkhazia's independence. The Russian trace is also being erased. Let's take, for example, the monument to the flight attendant Nadezhda Kurchenko, who committed a heroic deed and died at the hands of terrorists (in 1970 — ed.). In 2013, a tree fell on the monument. According to information from open sources, the damaged monument was taken to one of the warehouses in Sukhum, where it is stored to this day. We appealed to the competent authorities, but the issue with the monument has not yet been resolved,» the CSORS emphasized. «cultural and Russian trace in Abkhazia, given the fraternal nature of the two states. We are confident that such important historical decisions must be carefully weighed, consulting with civil society, as has always been the case with the wise people of Abkhazia,» the document says.< img src="/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/49401a3d285fc731c6d7a3100077d9e2.jpg" />Abkhazia announced that the country does not plan to be part of Russia
