Magnitogorsk through. The rear to the front monument.

Magnitogorsk. Monument to the Front.

Monuments can delight, surprise, delight, amuse. The Magnitogorsk monument is amazing. I don’t remember my emotions from the monuments. You go to him and you get goosebumps.

Two figures, a worker and a warrior, hold a huge sword in their hands, with the worker looking east (the factory) and the warrior looking west (the front). The monument is included in the triad with monuments in Volgograd and Berlin: a sword forged in Magnitogorsk was raised by the Motherland in Stalingrad and lowered by a liberator soldier in Treptow Park in Berlin. The author of the Stalingrad and Berlin monument Vuchetich, Magnitogorsk (after the death of Vucecic) designed Lev Golovnitsky.

The figures stand without pedestal, you come close to them, and this is an incredible impression. And the eternal fire is not a bonfire on the earth, but a standing star. And on both sides of the endless slab with names - 14 thousand surnames ... 50-year-old comrade admitted later that he held back tears.