KULOB, March 10, 2010, Asia-Plus — Local authorities of Khatlon’s Kulob zone have begun to reregister local monuments.
According to the Kulob culture department head Khairullo Tohirov, it is the first re-registration of monuments over the past five years. “We will reregister all cultural and historical relics, monuments and memorials,” said Tohirov. “As of 2005, 215 monuments were registered in the Kulob zone and we have to find out how many monuments remain here and in what state they are?”
Three monuments to Lenin (two in Kulob and one in Hamadoni district) have already been dismantled and 15 monuments to Lenin, two monuments to Karl Marx and one monument to Shatalov now remain in the area.
“The Kulob monuments register includes a nearly 800,000-year-old primitive man’s site in Khovaling district, archeological site Zoli Zar in Farkhor district and many other cultural and historical relics,” said Tohirov, “Besides, many monuments and busts of representatives of the Popular Front appeared in the region after the civil war.”
He added that monuments that had not been approved by the expert commission for preservation of relics would be just registered but they would not be put on the monument register.
