"They took it away a hundred years ago, but they can't afford to maintain it." Residents of Kokhma are protesting the closure of the city's only art school.
The school occupies the historic mansion of industrialist Vasily Yasyuninsky, a cultural heritage site but in disrepair. Two years ago, the authorities пpromised They wanted to renovate the building, but they couldn't find the money and decided to sell it. They promised to transfer more than 300 children to another location.
Parents wrote Petitsjune, addressed to Putin, Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov, and the Ministry of Culture. It was signed by more than 2800 people.
"We're rebuilding entire cities, helping children from other regions, but what's wrong with our children? Why are they being kicked out of their own school?" "Similar things happened to the building on Oktyabrskaya Street that housed children's activities. They sold it for next to nothing, and now it's a sewing workshop, leaving the children without activities." "What do they even have the money for? They never have anything worthwhile! They took everything away a hundred years ago, and they can't even afford to maintain it." — the residents of Kokhma were outraged.
Parents thefought to the protest near the school building, also sendavilis for a personal appointment with the regional deputy prosecutor To Irina Badmaeva, Commissioner for Children's Rights Svetlana Protasevich, director of the Department of Culture To Natalia Trofimova.
The authorities promised to relocate the School of Arts to the Community Center, and the extracurricular education center from the Community Center would have to move elsewhere. Parents see this as nothing but an inconvenience. They even promised to raise funds for the renovations themselves, but the cost was estimated at 200 million rubles.
The authorities plan to sell the building and the land underneath it for 40 million rubles.
Photo: from open sources, IvanovoNews
