At least 322 million rubles from the budget were spent on the installation of monuments to "participants of the SVO"
NeMoscow examined 95 government contracts from the State Procurement website for the installation of memorials to war veterans in Ukraine. It found that the volume of new memorial construction is increasing year after year.
Monuments to SVO participants: procurement is growing
The largest number of tenders for new monuments—43—were completed in 2026, followed by 36 in 2025. Meanwhile, NeMoskva found only 13 contracts for new memorials in 2024, and only three in 2023. In 2022, there were none.
The most expensive and cheapest contracts
The most expensive monuments were found in the city Tosno Leningrad regions (about 17 million rubles), Mozhaisk area Moscow regions (more than 15 million rubles), Vladivostok (more than 15 million rubles).
The most modest amount is specified in the contract in Volovsky area Lipetsk The region's budget is 94 rubles, but this only covers "site development," not the monument itself. It's unclear from the documents whether the monument was built with public funds.
About 150 thousand rubles will be spent on a monument to participants of several wars at once - in Afghanistan, Chechnya and Ukraine - in the village October в Chuvashia. Village budget Valamaz в Udmurtia The monument will cost 170 thousand rubles.
Monuments to participants of the SVO at old memorials
Sometimes monuments to SVU officers are added to memorials to those killed in World War II. This was done in Tigilsky district Kamchatka, villages Maksimovo, Kashkino, village Bishtinovo and in the city Neftekamsk in Bashkortostan, in a village New Burasy, village Chuvichi Samara region, village Kyzyl-Kamysh in Chuvashia, village Dmitrievka и Yaganovka Penza areas, Ust-Luzhsky Leningrad Oblast and several others. Most often, existing monuments are augmented with "special military operation symbols," figures of soldiers in modern uniforms, and name plaques.
The money spent on monuments during the war in Ukraine is comparable to the annual expenses of a small settlement - like Smyshlyaevki Samara region, where eight thousand people live.
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