Coming Soon: The Freedom Monument Will Be Cleaned for 20,000 Euros 0 17

The largest budget of 511,332 euros will go towards the Freedom Monument and the Brothers' Cemetery. This includes cleaning paths, areas, and even washing the main symbol of Latvia – the Freedom Monument in Riga. The event is budgeted at 20,000 euros, and the cleaning will take place in June of this year.

174,302 euros have been allocated for the restoration of the chapel of Rudolf Ludwig Pichlau at the Great Cemetery – a Baltic German entrepreneur and active figure in the Riga City Council. His father, Johann Theodor Pichlau, purchased the Strazdumuiža estate in 1827 and established a factory for spinning and dyeing cotton (now the territory of the Society of the Blind in Jugla), while his mother, Anna Gertrude Pander, along with her husband, was a devoted parishioner of St. Peter's Church and the Dome Cathedral.

10,000 euros will be spent on a staircase from which visitors to the storage of dismantled monuments at 13 Varonu Street will be able to view the sculpture of Pushkin and others that did not fit into the discourse of monumental propaganda...

Also planned are the reconstruction of the memorial at the former Kaiserwald concentration camp (Sarkandaugava) for 109,174 euros; the repair of the monument to writer Fricis Brivzemnieks for 52,570 euros; and the repair of the only remaining pavilion from the exhibition in honor of Riga's 700th anniversary (the "Tsar's Arbor" in Kronvalda Park) for 142,689 euros.

After a lengthy "interrogation" of Ms. Strautin, regarding why the iron cemetery fence costs so much, the plan was approved by a majority of 36 votes.

Those who voted "against" noted that the director could not even remember where she intended to go with her 11 colleagues for an international exchange of experience. Mayor Viesturs Kleinbergs ("Progressives") congratulated A. Strautin on her "fiery baptism" and wished her to prepare budgets more carefully in the future...