On June 15, Yekaterinburg's Department of Architecture issued a decree setting out guidelines for the installation of memorial plaques, Vechernie Vedomosti reported.
According to the document, plaques installed by the Last Address project, which commemorates victims of Soviet repression, are put up without the city administration's approval, are difficult to read, and, when installed in groups, detract from the appearance of buildings.
In August 2025, following a denunciation, the prosecutor's office demanded that three Last Address plaques be removed from a residential building at 43 Pervomayskaya Street in Yekaterinburg. Activists also postponed the installation of another plaque after receiving a call from the prosecutor's office.
In the past three months alone, several similar incidents have taken place across Russia. In Vorkuta, in the Komi Republic, the city authorities dismantled a memorial to Gulag victims following a complaint by veterans of the war against Ukraine. In Novosibirsk, unknown individuals tore a plaque commemorating victims of political repression off a memorial foundation stone. In Tomsk, the authorities destroyed an entire memorial dedicated to victims of political repression.