Krivoy Rog rightly be regarded as a city of monuments.Its streets and squares are decorated with dozens of statues in honor of famous writers, composers, politicians, war heroes and underground.What are they - the most famous monuments of Krivoy Rog?
Photos of monuments and sculptures, along with their description can be found in this article.
Krivoy Rog - the city of monuments and memorials
This large industrial city a lot of historical and memorial structures.These include a variety of monuments, memorials, monuments, steles, memorial and graves.All of these sites are not only educational and patriotic significance, but also aesthetic, because they are based on a sculpture as one of the trends in art.
Total in Krivoy Rog there are over a hundred such objects.Including - 47 sculptural monuments, memorial signs 43, 17 memorials and the mass graves.Devoted they are the heroes of the Great Patriotic War, prominent state and city leaders, writers and poets, composers and so on. D. The most famous monuments of Krivoy Rog - it's a monument "Victory", the stele Heroes monuments Cossack Horn, Bogdan Khmelnitsky, Alexander Pushkin, Alexander Paul, the memorial "Memory Watch" and others.
It is worth noting that earlier Krivoy Rog is a city leader in the post-Soviet space for the number of installed statues of Lenin.In total there were 13 in the city!However, in 2014 in Ukraine a wave of destruction of monuments of the Soviet era, has received the people and the media called "Leninopad."Do not pass it side and Krivoy Rog.As a result - in the city were torn down all the monuments to Lenin and Dzerzhinsky sculpture, Artema and Karl Liebknecht.
However, in the streets and parks of the city there are still many beautiful and majestic monuments.This monument "Victory" height of 14 meters, established in honor of the liberation of Krivoy Rog from Nazi invaders, the unique Stella Heroes decorated 62 Krivoy Rog minerals lyrical monument to the great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin and many, many others.
Monument Horn in Krivoy Rog: description
on the plate near the most significant for Krivoy Rog monument is written: "The Cossack Rih".It is considered the founder of the Cossack city.And supposedly in honor of his nickname and he was named the town on the banks of the rivers Ingulets and Saksagan.
Was there really such a person, is unknown.However, many krivorozhane do not doubt its existence.Legend also has it that Cossack Horn owned inn on the site of the modern city center, which is often called in Chumakov.
Monument Horn in Krivoy Rog depicts a Cossack with a horse.The sculpture is made of bronze and mounted on a massive block of ferruginous quartzite.The height of the monument - about five meters, and the total weight of it (together with the pedestal) is 65 tons.
history monument
Monument Horn in Krivoy Rog was established only in 2011.Although the idea is to perpetuate the legendary founder of the city dates back to the early 90s at the then-mayor of Krivoy Rog - Gregory Gutovsky.The author of the sculpture was a famous architect A. Vasyakin.The monument had to be installed in the park named newspaper "Pravda" in the historical center of the city.
However, a deep economic crisis 90 prevented to realize this idea.It was only able to revive it in 2011.The monument was completed, cast in bronze and unveiled near the city executive committee on the eve of the city.
In conclusion ...
Monument Horn in Krivoy Rog is famous not only in his native city, but also outside it.Cossack Horn is considered the founder of the large settlement of Ukraine and its inhabitants are respected.
addition to this monument in the city, and many others.These are numerous monuments, obelisks, memorials and statues sculpted great writers, statesmen, composers and heroes of the Great Patriotic War.
