## Where Does the Money Come From? This is quite a small amount when you consider the memorial estate – 147 objects, among which there are quite large ones. For example, there are 520 monuments, 100 metal fences, 99 gravestones, 29 crypts, and a wall with burials at the Great Cemetery. Currently, work is being done to maintain 12 objects, and a restoration project for the chapel of Reinhold Ludwig Pilkhau (1816-1881), a notable Baltic German nobleman and Riga councilor, has been developed. The funding for the historical memory of Riga consists of municipal (1,177,177 euros) and state (1,147,332 euros) transfers. Donations are rather weak – only a thousand. However, paid services and other own revenues are planned to amount to 100,000 euros. ## How It Will Be Spent Investments for 2026 include the construction of a "Basketball Hoop" facility near the Daugava Sports House at 107 Kr. Barona Street – for 130,000 euros. A contract has been signed with the restitution fund of the Jewish community of Latvia for 100,000 euros for the reconstruction of the monument to the victims of the Kaiserwald concentration camp, near the Sarkandaugava railway station. Arrangements are planned at the Holocaust sites in Rumbula and Bikerneki, as well as at the memorial wagon for those deported in Tornakalns. A memorial plaque for painter Vilhelms Purvitis will be placed at 6 Kazarmju Street. Four holders of the Order of Lāčplēsis will also be honored with commemorative plaques. Meanwhile, the country's main monument will undergo restoration from the inside: behind that very mysterious door on the back side of the pedestal. The Freedom Monument, as noted in the document for the Riga City Council, is insured – and free of charge – for 1.5 million euros. The insurance also covers damage from vandals. ## Anniversary of the National Necropolis This year, large-scale work is underway at the Brothers' Cemetery for the reconstruction of the pavement, restoration of walls, gates, and the depository. An exhibition is being organized in honor of the 90th anniversary of the national necropolis. Another exhibition was held by the Monument Agency in spring together with Kyiv – about the cultural heritage destroyed by war. Among other things, the Agency manages 2.4 hectares of land at 13 Varoņu Street. It stores what is not displayed in the city: "to create storage for dismantled and replaced elements of monuments during restoration, as well as to create a publicly accessible exhibition of dismantled monuments (a park of monuments)." Let’s hope that in the future they will display the sculptural group of the Red Army memorial in Pardaugava, the statue of Pushkin, the stele of Anna Kern, and other iconic objects that did not fit into our unpredictable history.
