The Glory Memorial (Georgian: სამხედრო დიდების მემორიალი ქუთაისში, romanized: samkhedro didebis memoriali kutaisshi) is a former memorial located in Kutaisi, Georgia and designed by an architect Otar Kalandarishvili with participation of a sculptor-monumentalist Merab Berdzenishvili.
The monument was ordered demolished by then-President Mikheil Saakashvili on 21 December 2009 to make way for a new parliament building, killing two bystanders with falling debris in the hasty process.
[1][2] Prison sentences ranging from 2 to 4 years were handed out by the Kutaisi City Court in February 2010 to the management of the Sakpetkmretsvi demolition company.
The central horseman figure of the monument was re-installed near the parliament building in May 2021 on a new plinth after spending 13 years in storage.
[4] A similarly-shaped Glory Memorial was unveiled in 2010 at a ceremony attended by Vladimir Putin and Georgian opposition leaders Nino Burjanadze and Zurab Noghaideli.