The Motherland monument

In Ukraine, in Kiev, on the banks of the famous river Dnieper there is a monument to Motherland, he is very beautiful, a couple of times I happened to see him. People who admire this monument to look at the background of this monument like ants. This building is very well huge, its height is as much as 102 meters, the monument is considered one of the highest memorable of construction all over the world! Motherland is dedicated to the victory of the Soviet people over the fascist Germany. Is this monument in the street of Ivan Mazepa 33.

A bit of history about this monument. It was built during the Soviet Union, and in 1981 it was opened on Victory day. Wow the Motherland is just 35 years old, my coeval, it pleasantly surprised me. They are treated as alive, so manly, so majestic. Even forget that this monument before you stands a woman, a mother and Protectress! That was the impression I got when I first saw this monument.

There is a legend which stated that during the construction of this building, the monument of mother Motherland, Kyiv Metropolitan of whether the dream,whether the vision was, he said, should not be elevated above the cross Lavrovskaya the bell tower of the sword on this monument. For the interpretation of the sword is for war and did not want such a decoration of the city for many symbolized the inevitability of war. So the sword was made on the statue shorter by as much as 12 meters.

The locals say that this monument were collected using a huge crane, with a height of a hundred meters. And after the monument was erected had the valve removed, and the time for Victory day in General is low and the management decided the crane is just cut with a blowtorch and the pieces reset to the Dnieper river. As this scrap of the former crane lies on the river bottom to this day.

Initially it was planned to create and install an 80-foot figure of a woman from bronze, cover it in gold leaf. And podnozhiya of this figure wanted to make a waterfall heights Oh 30 meters on both sides of the waterfall I wanted to install the same bronze warriors rushed to the river Dnieper. But, for some reason this idea has not caught on and there was the Motherland. Although it would be interesting to see what would be the monument... And so happened what happened, but this monument is beautiful in its own way. Just think what a giant, see for yourself:

In the hands of the statue of the Motherland sword 12 meters below, but still 16 meters and weight is huge, as much as 9 tons. The shield, which also weighs 13 tons. The height of the statue is 62 meters! The weight of the entire structure is 450 tons. The design of the statue was made by all-welded and all welds if to count, there will be 30 kilometers. And yet the monument can withstand a nine earthquake, but hopefully, the earthquake in Ukraine will not.