Monument to a pregnant woman

The urban environment of modern Russian cities is unthinkable without monuments on a variety of topics. Some of them are unusual. These include the monument to a pregnant woman, which adorns the city of Tomsk since summer 2005.

The monument is symbolic. The almost transparent figure of a woman, assembled from metal rods, looks like a kind of vessel in which life begins: a metal embryo is clearly visible in her womb. Despite all its avant-garde, the monument is not devoid of grace and, undoubtedly, tunes to philosophical reflections. Residents of the city, who at first took the metal pregnant warily, are now used to her silent figure. The local sign has already taken root - if a pregnant woman strokes the statue on the stomach, the birth of her will pass safely. Also, medical students are sent to the monument to study the correct position of the fetus: everything is clear here, the best Tomsk obstetricians-gynaecologists helped lay the “fruit” inside the sculpture.

The author of the unusual sculpture is Tomsk sculptor Nikolai Gnedykh, and the initiator-enthusiast of the installation of a bronze pregnant woman was the rector of the local Medical University Vyacheslav Novitsky.