The region’s governor, Sergey Tsivilev, gave students in Kemerovo a tour of the “Warrior-Liberator” monument on November 2, according to the website kuzbass85.ru.
The sculpture “To the liberating warrior” in Kemerovo completely repeats the famous monument in Berlin’s Treptow Park. The sculpture is also 12 meters tall, but the pedestal in Kemerovo is five meters taller.
The memorial complex was created by analogy with the famous complex in Treptow Park in Berlin. The Kemerovo complex was built in less than a year. On the mosaic panel, in addition to the plot, repeating the famous panel in Germany, Nikolai Masalov is also depicted.
Recall that the prototype of the warrior captured in Treptow Park is the famous native of the Kemerovo region Nikolai Masalov, who on April 30, 1945 in Berlin saved a German girl who was with her mother in the middle of a shootout between Soviets and Nazis. soldiers. The girl’s mother was killed by a German soldier’s bullet, and Soviet sergeant Masalov pulled the girl out of the fire. The image of the Soviet soldier was embodied by the sculptor Evgeny Vuchetich.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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