On November 22, President Viktor Yuschenko will open the first stage of the memorial complex to victims of famines in Kyiv in 15A Ivan Mazepa Street, presidential press service informed.
In particular, at 2:55 p.m., Yuschenko together with the invited heads of foreign states will take part in the ceremony of planting bushes of arrowwood, then they will participate in consecration of the memorial and the ceremony of laying candles to the memorial sign on the 75th anniversary of 1932-33 Holodomor.
On Friday Vice Prime Minister for Humanitarian Issues Ivan Vasiunyk has introduced the memorial to journalists.
In his words, UAH 133 million were disbursed from the national budget for construction of the memorial first stage.
"Works in this first part [of the memorial complex] cost a bit more than UAH 133 million," he said.
Preparatory work is being finished at the memorial now.
The main element of the monument is a candle-like column with a hall of memory in the base.
Slabs ("black boards") are mounted on the Dnieper hillsides in front of the symbolic candle.
As to Vasiunyk, names of some 14,000 settlements in Ukraine, who suffered from the 1932-33 hunger, are carved on these slabs.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, Ukraine is marking the 75th anniversary of 1932-33 Holodomor.
Six presidents are expected to arrive to Ukraine for commemorating the Holodomor anniversary.
The Cabinet of Ministers allocated in October UAH 60 million to the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory to complete the construction of the first stage of the memorial to victims of famines.
