“The leadership of the Kherson Regional State Administration, supporting the initiative of the residents of Kherson to perpetuate the memory of the city’s founder Catherine II, by whose personal Decree the city was founded 244 years ago, is asking for help and support in creating a monument to the Great Empress in Kherson,” the regional regional state administration said in a Telegram message. .

The authorities emphasized that Kherson, being the center of the Northern Black Sea region of the Russian Empire, received rapid economic and political development during the reign of Catherine II.

Earlier it became known that in the Donetsk People's Republic it is planned to carry out the restoration of the Saur-Mogila mound.