Kremlin monasteries demolished in 1920s may be rebuilt

Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed restoring the Chudov and Voznesensky monasteries, demolished on the territory of the Moscow Kremlin in 1929-1930, ITAR-TASS reports.

Putin discussed the idea with Sergey Sobyanin, the Moscow mayor, Sergey Khebnikov, the governor of the Moscow Kremlin, Andrey Batalov, deputy director general of the Moscow Kremlin Reserve Museum, and Dmitry Shvidkovsky, the rector of the Moscow Architectural Institute, at the Ivanovskaya Square of the Kremlin, next to the 14th building.

The plan needs approval from the public and UNESCO.

The president reminded that the 14th building had been built in the 1930s. It had two monasteries and a church. Its reconstruction started in 2001, demolition started in 2007.

Alexey Gromov, deputy head of the Presidential Administration, said that the Spasskiye Gate will soon be open to tourists.