Monument "Tent of the first builders of Magnitogorsk"

The monument "The Tent of the First Builders of Magnitogorsk" is located near the entrance to the Veterans Park of the city. The opening of the monument, symbolizing the tent in which the first builders of the city and the plant lived, took place on Victory Day, May 9, 1966. The monument was designed by honored artist of the RSFSR Lev Golovnitsky and architect Evgeny Alexandrov.

The monument is made of reinforced concrete blocks, its height is 3.4 meters, and the total pedestal area is 10 x 12 meters. Around the perimeter of the pedestal there is an inscription - these are poems written by the famous Magnitogorsk poet Boris Ruchev, who took part in the construction of the city and lived exactly in such a tent together with the rest of the original builders. And the lines are cast as follows: "We lived in a tent with a green window, washed by rain, dried by the sun, Let them burn at the door golden bonfires On the red stones of Magnetic Mountain."