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A plaque on the house of Admiral A.V. Kolchak





A memorial plaque to Alexander Vasilyevich Kolchak (1874–1920) was installed in St. Petersburg at the initiative of the Beloye Delo IPIKC. The installation site is house number 3 on Bolshaya Zelenina Street, where the admiral lived.

In 2013, the White Business Center appealed to the Committee on Culture of St. Petersburg with a request to consider at the Council on memorial plaques at the city government a proposal to install a memorial plaque to the renowned Russian admiral, one of the leaders of the White movement Alexander Vasilievich Kolchak (1874–1920) Address: St. Petersburg, st. Bolshaya Zelenina, 3. The life and service of A. V. Kolchak were closely connected with the history of St. Petersburg. In the years 1906-1912 he lived at the address indicated.

“In 2014, it will be 100 years since the start of the First World War (Great), so perpetuating the memory of one of its forgotten Russian heroes in our city will be a significant, fair and relevant event of cultural and historical life,” the IPCRC said White Case "in the Committee on Culture.

On March 31, 2014, the Committee on Culture of St. Petersburg notified the White Case Center that the Board on Memorial Plaques at the Government of St. Petersburg supported the proposal to install a memorial plaque. Board members approved the text of the board: "In this house, an outstanding Russian officer, scientist and researcher Alexander V. Kolchak lived from 1906 to 1912."

On September 16 and November 20, 2014, the working group on monumental-decorative, artistic and information-advertising design, integrated improvement of the urban environment of St. Petersburg city planning council under the government of St. Petersburg rejected two options for sketches of a memorial plaque.

December 19, 2014, a little over a month after the celebration of the 140th anniversary of A.V. Kolchak, the working group approved another version of the design of the board (by sculptor VD Balashov, architect N.V. Engelke). According to the results of the discussion, the majority of the working group members voted to install a memorial plaque on the bay window of the house without a bronze bas-relief with a portrait of A. V. Kolchak. The memorial plaque height is 1.0 m, width - 1.9 m.

On February 19, 2015, the governor of St. Petersburg, G. S. Poltavchenko, signed the decree of the Government of St. Petersburg No. 148 “On the installation of a memorial plaque to A. V. Kolchak”.



November 12, 2016, a memorial plaque A.V. Kolchak is installed on the facade of 3 Bolshaya Zelenina Street.

November 16, 2016 on the birthday of Admiral A.V. Kolchak in TASS (St. Petersburg) held a press conference on the opening of a memorial plaque. Oleg Shevtsov, coordinator of the White Case Center, Arkady Gumanyuk, director of the memorial plaque installation project, Victor Slovunyuk, Doctor of Philology, professor, told about the installation of the board and the discussion in the society, about the historical significance of Kolchak's activities.

On January 24, 2017, a court in St. Petersburg declared the installation of a memorial plaque illegal, referring to the decision of 1999, according to which the admiral is not subject to rehabilitation. The Committee on Culture of St. Petersburg was instructed to dismantle the board. The decision will be appealed to a higher court.