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Putin Orders Archaeologists to Draw Up Plan for Excavations Inside Kremlin

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View of the Moscow Kremlin towers, Alexander Garden and the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. - Sputnik International
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Russian President Vladimir Putin told archaeologists on Monday to draw up a plan on how they want to proceed with digging near the eastern walls of the Kremlin fortifications, the Kremlin press office said.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Digging at the site of Kremlin's demolished Building 14 began last December. Archaeologists believe that a monastic complex was erected there in 1365. A church devoted to the Miracle of Archangel Michael was at its center.

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"The Archaeology Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Federal Agency for Scientific Organizations together with the Federal Protection Service and the Presidential Administrative Directorate [are ordered] to look into the issue of archaeological excavations in the eastern part of the Moscow Kremlin in 2017-2018," the press statement read.

The scientists have until December 30, 2016 to set out their plans. The president has also ordered to create a museum at the site where the Miracle of Archangel Michael church once stood. According to the Kremlin press office, UN’s cultural body UNESCO will be informed of the plans.

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