Sculptor Frangulyan showed developments by the memorial "Wall of Grief"

Sculptor Georgy Frangulyan working on the Moscow memorial "Wall of Grief", on Saturday opened the doors of his workshop for the members of the interdepartmental working group on the perpetuation of the memory of victims of political repression.

"I spoke about the essence of the monument, at what stage of creating it is main question is, how big the path should pass in order to be on time to create this monument." - He told RIA Novosti sculptor Georgy Frangulyan, adding that the meeting was of informative character.

The head of the Presidential Human Rights Council (HRC), Mikhail Fedotov, who was present at the meeting, stressed that finance the construction of this memorial should be both the state and society.

"On the website of the Moscow State Gulag History Museum is today to make money for the creation of the memorial. While there are about 800 thousand rubles only. While there are public donations from the three people in the main, the largest amount contributed Vyacheslav Volodin, Sergei Karaganov, and your humble servant . But every day in this popular piggy thin trickle flow people's money "- said Fedotov.

He also told RIA Novosti about the interest of the working group is to "this source is it possible to construct not only the memorial, but also other memorials, monuments to the victims of political repressions, to create a museum, landscape the mass graves."

Interdepartmental Working Group to coordinate activities, implementing the concept of the state policy on the perpetuation of the victims of political repression, was established by the decree of President Vladimir Putin's February 15, 2016. It is composed of the head of the Presidential Council on Civil Society and Human Rights Mikhail Fedotov, the members of the Council Lyudmila Alexeyeva, Sergei Karaganov and Nikolai Svanidze, Moscow Government Minister Alexander Kibovsky writer Daniel Granik, sculptor Georgy Frangulyan and others.

The first meeting of the group took place on 23 March. One of the main issues discussed was the erection of the memorial "Wall of sorrow." The monument will be at the intersection of Sadovaya-Spasskaya Street and Avenue Sakharov inside the Garden Ring. Its opening is scheduled for October 30, 2017.