Monument "Glory to the Mining Labor"

The monument “Glory to the Mining Work” adorns the Shakhtar Square of the Kyiv district of Donetsk and is a symbol of the main profession of Donbass. If you enter the city from the north side, then travelers will certainly see this monument, since a whole traffic flow from the railway station, airport and bus station passes by it.

In the center of the square stands a cast-iron sculpture of a miner, in his right outstretched hand - a piece of coal. The height of the monument is four meters, weight is 22 tons. One piece of coal weighs 90 kilograms and is made of aluminum.

The history of the birth of the monument is as follows: the statuette in the form of a miner was made in the form of a gift for Nikita Khrushchev. Degtyarev, the head of the National Economy Council, proposed to make a monument based on this statuette, which was installed in Donetsk in 1967. Over the monument worked: the sculptor Rakityansky Konstantin Efimovich and architect Wigdergauz Pavel Isaakovich. The bronze miner was cast at the Remkommunelectrotrans plant in the Donetsk region, where the marble pedestal was also clad.