A memorial plaque of Admiral Kolchak appeared today on the building of the Military Commissariat in the Central and Soviet administrative districts. The inscription on it reads:
"In this building in October-December 1918, Admiral A. V. Kolchak lived."
Apparently, we are talking about the project "Third Capital", supported by the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Vladimir Medinsky, under which such signs are installed on buildings associated with the activities of the Russian government in Omsk in 1918-1919.
It is interesting that at the end of the building of the military registration and enlistment office there is another plaque that says that Red Army soldiers were leaving the building during the war years for the front. Therefore, the “neighborhood” of two characters turned out to be somewhat ambiguous. There is a question about the coordination of the “Kolchak” plank - after all, the building on Pushkin, 74, has the status of an architectural monument and nothing can be hung there without special permission. The military enlistment office is also a kind of national monument: the brick walls are dotted with inscriptions that have been left for draftees for decades.
Note, the perpetuation of the memory of the admiral often becomes a cause for scandal - the Communists and various social movements invariably oppose this, for example, The Essence of Time. A monument to Kolchak never appeared in Omsk, although it was made and delivered to the city. In St. Petersburg, a memorial plaque was doused with paint, and then the court decided to dismantle it in connection with the fact that Kolchak is still officially a war criminal after a court sentence of 1920. This decision was repeatedly appealed, but in 1999 the Trans-Baikal Military Court confirmed its legality. In 2017 years ago, a resident of Irkutsk filed a lawsuit in the Omsk Regional Court, demanding the rehabilitation of members of the Kolchak government, but did not succeed.