Russians Destroy Monumental Panels in Mariupol School.

In Mariupol, which is temporarily occupied by Russia, monumental panels created in 1990 in one of the city schools were destroyed. This information was reported by the Mariupol City Council, citing journalist and researcher of Mariupol mosaics Ivan Stanislavsky.

The composition in question includes five sgraffito created by Sergey Barannik and Akhmet Fathi.

The report states that these panels were created in the assembly hall of school No. 7 in 1990. They belonged to monumental art. Now, after the "repair" conducted by the occupiers, what remains in the assembly hall are bare white walls.

The City Council reminded that the occupiers destroyed dozens of mosaic panels in Mariupol. Among them were works by Alla Horska, Lelya Kuzmenkova, Valentin Konstantinov, Ernst Kotkov, Valery Lamakh, and Ivan Lytovchenko.

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