Monument to Savva Mamontov

If every time you spend a huge amount of time in search of budget and entertaining trips for weekends and holidays, then right now you can take a deep breath, close your laptop and buy tickets to Yaroslavl, an amazing ancient city where already on the square of the Yaroslavl Main station you can get acquainted with the unique monument to Savva Mamontov.

Mamontov Savva Ivanovich is a Russian philanthropist and industrialist, who in 1859 was one of the founders of the Moscow-Yaroslavl Railway Society, which later became part of the highway, despite the fact that in his youth Savva was educated as an engineer and showed no special interest in the sciences, he was much more interested in art.

However, the father of Savva Mamontov was closely involved in the construction of railways and, of course, tried to attract his son to serious business and, I must say, he succeeded.

At first, the young man began to manage the central branch of the Trans-Caspian partnership, and three years after the death of his father, he took the post of director of the Moscow-Yaroslavl railway, which was fraught with considerable difficulties.

Gradually Savva Ivanovich became so carried away with the new business that after the construction of the coal-fired Donetsk railway, he undertook to extend the railway link to Arkhangelsk, and he built it with almost no benefit.

On the day of the celebration of the 140th anniversary of the Northern Railway, in 2008, a monument to the great Russian patron was solemnly unveiled. The author of the monument was the sculptor Sergei Skala, according to which the famous industrialist is presented with a clock and a compass in his hands, which symbolizes the inseparable unity of the time of titanic achievements and conquest of the vast space of the northern territories of Russia, which was achieved thanks to the creation of a railway line that became the key to the economic development of the region.

On one of the large-scale granite slabs located next to the monument, a cartographic image of the Moscow-Vologda railway section created with the assistance of Savva Mamontov is applied. Another plate displays information from the biography of the patron. On each side of the pedestal perimeter there is a bronze panel indicating the dates of birth and death of S. I. Mamontov and artistic images of the largest railway stations in Yaroslavl, Rybinsk and Vologda.