Monument to M. E. Pyatnitsky

September 17, 1988 in the city of Voronezh in the center of a small square, near the house of officers, on Revolution Avenue, the opening of the monument to Mitrofan Efimovich Pyatnitsky took place. The authors of the project were the famous Voronezh sculptures Ivan Dikunov and Elsa Pak.

M.E. Pyatnitsky is a famous Russian musician, folklorist, founder of the famous folk choir, was born in the middle of the IX century in the Voronezh region, Talovsky district. He devoted his whole life to the study of Russian folk songs. At the beginning of the XX century, the choir became very popular, later it was awarded the title of the state folk choir named after Pyatnitsky.

The monument is a bust mounted on a high round column, around which there is a low arc of red Karelian granite. The arc is decorated with images of musical instruments made of bronze – harmony and balalaika. Behind the semicircle, as a symbol of singers from the Pyatnitsky choir, birches are planted, they beautifully frame the landscape composition of the square.