I sincerely hope that those who do not need this article, especially up to 30 years old, most. I hope, but I do not really believe. But if it is even so - the public it is still for this mercy. Patriotism does not happen much.
So let's go:
If you ask an average resident of any country a question about the highest statues in the world, he will most likely remember the statues of Buddha carved from the rocks, a statue of freedom in New York, the statue of Christ-Rio in Rio - Well, the one from the series; Perhaps someone will remember the Kolos Rhodes - he, probably, was huge, let's not remember ... and, perhaps, everything. In Russia, an older generation will still remember Mamaev Kurgan, but the Kiev Motherland, probably, will be remembered far from any, at least in the context of the largest in the world. Where are our to their arms, to Western (asha). Won, Christ the Redeemer in 2007, recognized as one of the seven new miracles of the world, the statue of freedom in the finalists of the applicants for this honorary title, and we are not close there. The Kremlin just got into the finalists of applicants.
Statue of Liberty. NY. Who did not dreamed to visit the island of freedom or at least to sit on that famous steam and swim directly near the island of freedom, the disknoe number of times. Yes, dreams ...
We know everything about her. What is its full name "Freedom, illuminating the world," we know when and who created it when and where they put a hand with a torch, to which date the whole statue was presented and by whom. I even know that they were late with her for 10 years. The statue of freedom without exaggeration can be called the most famous statue in the world and our person is no exception to the exception. It knows about this overseas beauty more than his relatives.
What a huge one - look at the people at the foundation of the statue - they are practically not visible, if they do not specifically look. It stands on torn skies, keeps in the hands of a torch and screech with the date of July 4, 1776. Visitors pass 356 steps to the crown of the Statue of Freedom or 192 Steps to the top of the pedestal. In the crown there are 25 windows that symbolize earth precious stones and celestial rays covering the world. Seven rays on the crown of the statue symbolize seven seas and seven continents (the Western geographical tradition has exactly seven continents). She is not just a US symbol, it is a global symbol. But, in my opinion, today she is a symbol of an ending world order, and a monument on the grave of freedom, which, in fact, never happened.
But come back to the facts. So.
In most of our compatriots, even thoughts arise that our statues are most discerning the Western. Moreover, after such propaganda pictures that hundreds are walking on Neta, we have thoughts do not arise in doubt it.
What a huge statue of Christ-Redeemer hugging. And on the last picture - the statue of freedom looks even more than the statue of the Kiev Motherland, which is even here above 9 meters.
Is it so? In the following photo, we will see the real size of the statue of freedom in New York compared to the figure in Volgograd and the most hugging statue in Rio and see that this Christ if someone could hug, then definitely not our girls. With its size, he could hug out that Lenin's monuments running from Ukraine.
And in the next photo we will see the real dimensions of statues without pedestals. In addition to the new miracle of the world - the statues of Christ-Redeemer, which, apparently, had to leave a pedestal to not be the smallest in the photo. After all, and with the pedestal it is only 38 meters in height. Mimicon Vladimir Ilyich in this photo, of course, is badly visible, but it seems to me, he grins.
Now someone, of course, will say that our statues still do not reach the huge Buddhist. It's difficult to argue here, because the numbers speak for themselves. But I, with your permission, allow myself to argue with the level of complexity of the construction of vulnerable data. So, the sculpture of the motherland-mother call is the only dynamic statue of such a magnitude in the world! ! ! I emphasize - the only one !!!
The statue of the sculptor's work and Nikitin engineer is made of 5,500 tons of concrete and 2400 tons of metal structures. The height of the monument is 86 meters, the height of the sculpture itself is 53 meters. In this case, the thickness of the walls of the sculpture is not more than 30 centimeters. The sword in the hand of Mother Mother's hand weighs 14 tons and has a length of 33 meters. They say that the car is free to fit in the palm of the statue. In 2008, the Mother Motherland statue at Mamaev Kurgan was recognized as one of the seven wonders of Russia.
In 1972, the restorers replaced the sword in the hand of the statue on the easier of stainless steel. Also, the holes in it did to reduce the wind pressure. The old sword was made from Titan and thundered in the wind. In the middle of the sixties, when the monument was opened, it was the highest monument on the planet. The Statue of Liberty has never been anything "most", except perhaps the most recognizable in the world.
At the moment, the statue is among the ten highest statues of the world. Motherland faces collapse due to groundwater. Experts say that if the inclination of the statue increases by another 300 mm., It can condone because of any, even the most insignificant reason.
A 70-year-old pensioner Valentina Ivanovna Isotova lives in Volgograd, from which 40 years ago sculpture "Mother's Mother calls". Valentina Ivanovna - a humble man, worked at the time the waitress in the restaurant "Volgograd". For more than 40 years, she was silent that as a simulator picked up sculptors, weathered almost the most famous sculpture in Russia - Motherland. It was silent, because in Soviet times to talk about the profession of the table was, to put it mildly, indecently, the more married woman raising two daughters. Now Valya Isotova is already a grandmother and willingly suggest that the distant episode in his youth, who now has become hardly the most significant event of his whole life
I thought for a long time, - remembers Isota, - sometimes there were strict, and my husband was forbidden. But then the spouse was walked, and I gave the guys my consent. Who in youth was not started in various adventures?
The adventure turned into serious work, which lasted two years. Valentina's candidacy for the role of Mother Mother's role argued. He, having heard the arguments of his colleagues in favor of a simple Volgograd waitress, nodded affirmatively, and began. Posying turned out to be a very difficult occupation. Standing for a few hours a day with stretched hands and the left foot put the left foot was tedious. According to the plan of sculptors, the sword was intended in the right hand, but Valentine, so as not to tire heavily, put a long stick in her palm. At the same time, she had to give his face inspired, the expression calling on the feats.
The guys insisted: "Valya, you must call behind you. You are the motherland-mother!" And I called, for which I paid 3 rubles per hour. Imagine what the clock stand with an open mouth.
Was during work and one spicy moment. Sculptors insisted that Valentine, as likely in a simulator, posed nude, but isota resisted. Suddenly the husband will go. First, they came together on a separate bathing suit. True, then the upper part of the swimsuit had to remove. Breasts should work out as natural. By the way, there was no tunic on the university. This already twitched himself threw the robe on the "homeland". The finished monument our heroine saw a few days later, after his official discovery. It was interesting to look at yourself from the side: a face, hands, legs - all native, only from stone and growth of 52 meters. Since then, more than 40 years have passed. Valentina Isotova Live-Healthy and is proud to be a monument to her in life. For a long life.
So, the height of the female figure of the sculpture of the motherland is called! 52 m, the height of the statue of freedom of 46 m. \u200b\u200bAnd it is to a torch. That is, the figure itself there is no more than 40 meters.
And last. Purpose.
Statue of Liberty is known for the whole world and many, as I wrote, dream of seeing it in Javi. Seeing at least people feel some emptiness - that's all? Is this "great sculpture"? A, maximum, feel frustrated. There is no soul there. Perhaps Americans feel the influx of patriotism under or atthis statue, but our person, exactly, does not feel anything like that.
And diametrically opposite can be said about our native statue. She has a reverse effect. The calling motherland is the amazing property of the psychological impact on everyone who sees it. There are so many feelings that you can't notice anyone. People after the first date with the implays of their homeland are still impressed. As the author managed to achieve this, you can only guess.
I think it is in our blood. Check?
How many do not turn on the song Hasbulat delete (US Anthem), does not increase the impact of the monument of freedom per person.
But, I quietly so include our, patriotic little letters, and in your heads as a habit of everyone who has the Spirit of your real patriot now !!!
stretch the country is huge
get up for a mortal battle. . .
Sculpture "Motherland-Mother calls!" It is the composite center of the architectural ensemble "Heroes of the Stalingrad Battle", is a 52-meter figure of a woman, rapidly going forward and calling his sons. In the right hand, the sword is 33 m (weight 14 tons). The height of the sculpture is 85 meters. The monument is on a 16 meter foundation. The height of the main monument speaks of its scale and uniqueness. The total weight is 8 thousand tons. The main monument is the modern interpretation of the image of an ancient nickname - the goddess of victory - calls for their sons and daughters to repel the enemy, continue further offensive.
The construction of the Memorial was enormous. There were no restrictions in the means and building materials. When creating a monument, the best creative forces were involved. Evgeny Viktorovich Vinchech was appointed the main sculptor and head of the project, who had already created a monument of the Soviet army to the Warriors of the Soviet Army in the Trept-Park in Berlin and the sculpture of Swords on Oral, which still decorates the area in front of the UN in New -Yorka. The architects of Belopolsky and Demin, sculptors of sailors, Novikov and Turenkov helped. At the end of construction, they were all awarded by the Leninist Prize, and the Golden Star of the Hero of Socialist Labor was also awarded to Vuchetch. The head of the Engineering Group, working on the construction of the Memorial, was N.V. Nikitin is the future creator of the Ostankino Tower. Marshal V.I. became the main military consultant Chuikov - the army commander, stated Mamaev Kurgan, the reward that was the right to be buried here, next to the dead fighters: along serpentine, in the hill, the remains of 34,505 soldiers - defenders of Stalingrad, as well as 35 granite tombstones of the Heroes of the Soviet Union, the participants of the battle under Stalingrad 
Construction of Monument "Motherland"it was started in May 1959 and completed on October 15, 1967. The sculpture at the time of creation was the world's highest in the world. Restoration work on the main monument of the ensemble monument was carried out twice: in 1972 and 1986. There is also an opinion that the statue was modulated like the figure "Mosselease" on the Triumphal Arch in Paris and that the statue's posture was inspired by the statue of the Nickie Samofraki. Indeed, there is some similarity. On the first photo of Marselyza, and Nika Samofarakaya 
And on this photo Motherland mother 
The sculpture is made of pre-stressed reinforced concrete blocks - 5,500 tons of concrete and 2400 tons of metal structures (without base on which it costs). Total monument height " Motherland calls"- 85 meters. It is installed on a concrete foundation of 16 meters deep. The height of a female figure is 52 meters (mass - more than 8 thousand tons). 
The statue stands on the plate with a height of only 2 meters, which rests on the main foundation. This foundation is 16 meters high, but it is almost not visible - most of it is hidden under the ground. Statue stands freely on the plate, like a chess piece on the board. The thickness of the reinforced concrete walls of the sculpture is only 25-30 centimeters. Inside the rigidity of the frame supported ninety-nine metal cables constantly in tension 
Sword 33 meters long and 14 tons weight. The sword was originally made of stainless steel, covered by Titan's sheets. In a strong wind, the sword was swinging, and the sheets thundered. Therefore, in 1972, the blade was replaced by another - entirely consisting of fluorinated steel. And from the wind problems got rid of blinds in the top of the sword. There are very few similar sculptures in the world, for example, the Statue of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, Motherland in Kiev, a monument to Peter I in Moscow. For comparison, the height of the statue of freedom from a pedestal is 46 meters. 
The most complex calculations of the stability of this design were made by Dr. Technical Sciences N. V. Nikitin - the author of the calculation of the sustainability of the Ostankino television. At night, the statue is illuminated by spotlights. "The horizontal displacement of the upper part of the 85 meter monument currently amounted to 211 millimeters or 75% of the permissible calculations. Deviations go from 1966. If from 1966 to 1970, the deviation was 102 millimeters, from 1970 to 1986 - 60 millimeters, until 1999 - 33 millimeters, from 2000-2008 - 16 millimeters, "said the director of the State Historical and Memorial Museum-Reserve" Stalingrad Battle "Alexander Velichkin. 
The sculpture of "Motherland-Mother calls" is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the biggest sculpture of the statue in the world. Its height is 52 meters, hand length - 20 and sword - 33 meters. The total height of the sculpture is 85 meters. The weight of the sculpture is 8 thousand tons, and the sword is 14 tons (for comparison: the statue of freedom in New York in a height of 46 meters; Statue of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro 38 meters). At the moment, the statue ranks 11th in the list of the highest statues of the world. Motherland faces collapse due to groundwater. Experts say that if the tilt of the statue increases by another 300 mm., It can collapse because of any, even the most insignificant reason 
A 70-year-old pensioner Valentina Ivanovna Isotova lives in Volgograd, from which 40 years ago sculpture "Mother's Mother calls". Valentina Ivanovna - a humble man. For more than 40 years, she was silent that as a simulator picked up sculptors, weathered almost the most famous sculpture in Russia - Motherland. It was silent, because in Soviet times to talk about the profession of the table was, to put it mildly, indecently, the more married woman raising two daughters. Now Valya Isotova is already a grandmother and willingly suggest that the distant episode in his youth, who now has become hardly the most significant event of his whole life 
In those distant 60s, Valentine was 26 years old. She worked as a waitress in prestigious, according to Soviet standards, the restaurant "Volgograd". This institution visited all the famous guests of the city on the Volga, and our heroine saw Fidel Castro, Emperor Ethiopia, Swiss ministers with their own eyes. Naturally, there could be a girl only with real Soviet appearance during lunch. What is meant, you probably have already guessed. Strict face, purposeful look, sports figure. It is not by chance once to Valentine with a conversation approached the frequent guest "Volgograd" Young sculptor Lion Maystrenko. He conspiracy told the young interlocutor about the sculpture, which they, together with his comrades, should do for the sculptor Evgenia Vuchetich, in those days already named. Mastrenko went around for a long time and about, scattered before the waitress in the compliments, and then suggested posing it. The fact is that the Moscow simulator, who arrived in the province directly from the capital, did not like local sculptors. It was too arrogant and fuzzled. Yes, and the face of "mother" was not like.
I thought for a long time, - remembers Isota, - sometimes there were strict, and my husband was forbidden. But then the spouse was walked, and I gave the guys my consent. Who in youth was not started in various adventures?
The adventure turned into serious work, which lasted two years. Valentina's candidacy for the role of Mother Mother's role argued. He, having heard the arguments of his colleagues in favor of a simple Volgograd waitress, nodded affirmatively, and began. Posying turned out to be a very difficult occupation. Standing for a few hours a day with stretched hands and the left foot put the left foot was tedious. According to the plan of sculptors, the sword was intended in the right hand, but Valentine, so as not to tire heavily, put a long stick in her palm. At the same time, she had to give his face inspired, the expression calling on the feats.
The guys insisted: "Valya, you must call behind you. You are the motherland-mother!" And I called, for which I paid 3 rubles per hour. Imagine what the clock stand with an open mouth.
Was during work and one spicy moment. Sculptors insisted that Valentine, as likely in a simulator, posed nude, but isota resisted. Suddenly the husband will go. First, they came together on a separate bathing suit. True, then the upper part of the swimsuit had to remove. Breasts should work out as natural. By the way, there was no tunic on the university. This already twitched himself threw the robe on the "homeland". The finished monument our heroine saw a few days later, after his official discovery. It was interesting to look at yourself from the side: a face, hands, legs - all native, only from stone and growth of 52 meters. Since then, more than 40 years have passed. Valentina Isotova Live-Healthy and is proud to be a monument to her in life. For a long life. 
The sculpture of "Motherland-Mother calls", created by E.V.V.Vutshech, has an amazing property of the psychological impact on everyone who sees it. As the author managed to achieve this, you can only guess. Acute critical comments against his creation: She de and hypertrophied monumental, and frankly similar to Marselase, adorning the Parisian triumphal arch, is absolutely not explained by her phenomenon. It is impossible to forget that for the sculptor who survived the war of war, this monument, as, however, and the entire memorial, - first of all, the tribute to the memory of the fallen, and then - the reminder is alive, which, by his conviction, and so never be able to forget 
Sculpture of the motherland mother, together with Mamaev Kurgan, is the finalist of the contest "Seven Wonders of Russia"
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Sculpture "Motherland-Mother calls!" - The composite center of the monument-ensemble "Heroes of the Stalingrad Battle" on Mamaev Kurgan in Volgograd. One of the highest statues of the world.
A huge hill rises above the sorrow area, which matures the main monument - Motherland Mother. This is a bulk kurgan with a height of about 14 meters, in which the remains of 34,505 soldiers are buried - Stalingrad defenders. A serpentine track is leading to the top of the hill to the motherland of the mother, along which 35 granite tombstones of the Heroes of the Soviet Union, participants of the Stalingrad battle are located. From the foot of the mound to its vertex, the serpentine consists of exactly 200 granitate steps 15 and 35 cm wide - by the number of days of the Stalingrad battle.
Mamaev Kurgan in the winter of 1945. In the foreground - a broken German cannon Cancer 40.
End point path - monument "Motherland is called!", composite center of the ensemble, the highest point of Kurgan. Its dimensions are huge - the height of the figure is 52 meters, and the total height of the Mother Motherland - 85 meters (Together with the sword). For comparison, the height of the famous statue of freedom without pedestal is only 45 meters. At the time of the construction of Motherland, the mother was the highest statue in the country and in the world. Later, the Kiev Motherland-Mother is 102 meters high. Today, the highest statue in the world is the 120-meter Buddha Statue, built in 1995 and located in Japan, in the city of Chuchur. The total weight of the mother's motherland is 8 thousand tons. In his right hand, she holds a steel sword, the length of which is 33 meters, and the weight is 14 tons. Compared with the growth of man, the sculpture is increased 30 times. The thickness of the reinforced concrete walls of the Motherland is only 25-30 centimeters. It was cast by a layer of a layer using a special formwork from plaster materials. Inside the rigidity of the frame is supported by the system from more than hundreds of cables. The monument is not fastened with the foundation, keeps the force of gravity. Motherland Mother stands on a plate with a height of only 2 meters, which rests on the main foundation height of 16 meters, but it is almost not visible - most of it is hidden under Earth. To enhance the effect of the monument at the peak point of Kurgan, an artificial embankment of 14 meters high was made.
Stalingrad, Mamaev Kurgan. In the foreground, Renault Ue Chenillette is a light French armored personnel carrier, which was in service with the Wehrmacht.
As soon as in Stalingrad, acknowledged canonade, a grateful country thought about how the monument to the creators of this great victory should be. Drawings and sketches sent not only professionals, but also people of completely different professions. Some sent them to the Academy of Arts, others in the State Defense Committee, someone personally comrade Stalin. Moreover, everyone saw the future monument to grandiose, unprecedented sizes, under the meaning of the victory itself.
The All-Union Competition announced immediately after the war. All prominent Soviet architects participated. The results led ten years later. Although few people doubted that the winner of the Stalinist Prize Evgeny Vuchetich would win. By that time, he had already created a memorial in the Berlin Trept-Park and enjoyed the confidence of the first persons of the state. On January 23, 1958, the Council of Ministers of the USSR decided to start the construction of an ensemble monument at Mamaev Kurgan. In May 1959, the construction was boiled.
In his work, Vuchetich turned three times to the topic of a sword - the sword raises his motherland on Mamaev Kurgan, calling to expel the conquerors; The sword destroys the fascist swastika Winner in the Berlin Treps-Park; The sword varies on the plow worker in the composition "Skid Swords on Oral", expressing the desire of people of goodwill to fight for disarmament in the name of the celebration of the world on the planet. This sculpture was presented to the collaboration of the United Nations and was established before the headquarters in New York, and its copy is the Volgograd Plant Gas Equipment, in whose workshops their motherland was born). Born by this sword was in Magnitogorsk (during the war of the war, every third projectile and every second tank was made of Magnitogorsk metal), where the "Rear-Front" monument was installed.
During the construction of the monument motherland A lot of changes have been made to the finished project. Few people know that initially at the top of Mamaeva Kurgan at the pedestal was to stand the sculpture of mother's motherland with a red banner and a knee-free fighter (according to some versions, the author of this project was Ernst Unknown). Two monumental staircases were conducted to the monument at the initial plan. But subsequently, Vuchetich changed the basic idea of \u200b\u200bthe monument. After the Stalingrad battle, the country had to have another 2 years of bloody battles and was still far from victory. Vuchetich left the mother-mother one, now she called her sons to start a victorious expulsion of the enemy.
He removed the pompous pedestal of Mother's Motherland, practically repeated the one on which his winner soldier stands in the Trept-Park. Instead of monumental stairs (which, by the way, were already built), the Mother's Mother's Mother has a serpentine track. Motherland itself "grown" with regard to the original size - her height reached 36 meters. But this option did not become final. Soon after the end of the work on the foundation of the main monument of Vuchetich (on the task of Khrushchev) increases the size of the mother's motherland to 52 meters. Because of this, builders had to urgently "prigore" the foundation, for which 150 thousand tons of land were put in the mound.
In the Timiryazevsky district of Moscow, in the country of Vuchetich, where his workshop was located and today - the architect house-museum - you can see the working sketches: the reduced mock-up molding layout, as well as the mock of the head of the statue in full size.
In a sharp, a rapid fit in the mounds rose in the mound. With a sword in his hands, she calls for their sons to defend the Fatherland. The right leg of her leg is slightly reserved back, the torso and head are vigorously deployed to the left. The face is harsh and volitional. Shifted eyebrows, wide open, screaming mouth bloomed by winds short hair, strong hands, body shape long dress bloated by the winds of the wind shakes - all this creates a feeling of strength, expression and insurmountable desire forward. Against the background of a skyskle, she is similar to the bird soaring in the sky.
The sculpture of mother's motherland looks perfectly from all sides at any time of the year: in the summer, when the Kurgan is covered with a solid herbal carpet, and a winter evening - a light, illuminated spotlights. The majestic statue, speaking on the background of the dark blue sky, as if grows from Kurgan, merging with his snowy cover.
abote Sculptor E. V. Vuchetich and Engineer N. V. Nikitin is a multi-meter figure of a woman, stepped forward with a raised sword. The statue is an allegorical way of the Motherland, which is the name of his sons to fight with the enemy. In the artistic sense, the Statue is a modern interpretation of the image of an ancient goddess of Victory Niki, who calls on its sons and daughters to fight the enemy, continue further offensive.
Construction of the monument was started in May 1959 and completed on October 15, 1967. Sculpture at the time of creation was the highest than the world in the world. Restoration work on the main monument of the ensemble monument was carried out twice: in 1972 and 1986, in particular in 1972 the sword was replaced.
Valentine Isotova was a prototype of sculpture (on other information Peshkov Anastasia Antonovna, a graduate of the Barnaul Pedagogical School of 1953).
68-year-old Valentina Isotova was a model in creating the famous Russian Mother Mother Memorial. For almost 40 years she did not say that he participated in its creation.
Could I refuse when sculptors asked me to pose for a statue in memory of the huge losses incurred by the Red Army in Stalingrad? But I was horrified when they stated that I should pose nude.
It was the beginning of the 1960s, and decent women did not undress in any way but their husbands. Artists, even such respected and famous, as Lev Mainrenko, who worked on a memorial, did not mean anything for a 26-year-old woman.
I turned to me. I worked as a waitress in the main restaurant of the city of Volgograd - he is now there - and usually served the hall reserved for high-ranking party functionaries and delegations. Lev said that I am beautiful and embody all the physical and moral qualities of an ideal Soviet woman. Finally, I was flattered, how else?
Curiosity took up, and I agreed to pose. None of us and ideas had some famous "Motherland-Mother". Volgograd (former Stalingrad) is known for this sculpture as well as the battle-walked here.
My husband did not like that I would pose a group of artists sent from Moscow. He was terribly jealous and drove me for each session to the studio, which they arranged on the old plant of gas apparatuses.
After some time, it became the same work as any other, I almost did not think about what was standing in a swimsuit, and I was glad that I was paid three rubles a day, because then it was a decent amount. But only six months later I was finally filed on the sculptors of sculptors to remove the bra and expose the chest. But it was all. I was unshakable in my determination to keep the remnants of modesty and not to pose quite naked. It was unthinkable.
No one except relatives and closest friends did not know about it. Shortly after the sessions ended, I went to receive the first higher education: I have two diplomas - an economist and engineer. Then I left Volgograd and began to live and work in Norilsk.
After the opening of the Memorial in 1967, I thought about it a little and lived my life.
In October 2010, work began to ensure the security of the statue.
The sculpture is made of pre-stressed reinforced concrete blocks - 5,500 tons of concrete and 2400 tons of metal structures (without base on which it costs).
The overall height of the monument is 85-87 meters. It is installed on a concrete foundation of 16 meters deep. The height of a female figure is 52 meters (mass - over 8 thousand tons).
The statue stands on the plate with a height of only 2 meters, which rests on the main foundation. This foundation is 16 meters high, but it is almost not visible - most of it is hidden under the ground. Statue stands freely on the plate, like a chess piece on the board.
The thickness of the reinforced concrete walls of the sculpture is only 25-30 centimeters. Inside, the entire statue consists of individual cell cells, like rooms in the building. The rigging of the frame is supported by ninety-nine metal cables that are constantly in tension.
A sword is 33 meters long and a weight of 14 tons was originally made of stainless steel, covered with titanium sheets. The huge mass and high sailboat of the sword caused by its colossal sizes caused a strong swinging of the sword when exposed to wind loads, which led to an excessive mechanical stress in the place of attachment of the hand holding a sword to the body of sculpture. The deformation of the design of the sword also caused the movement of the sheets of titanium trim, creating an unpleasant sound of a rattling metal. Therefore, in 1972, the blade was replaced by another - entirely consisting of fluorinated steel - and in the upper part of the sword there were holes that allowed to reduce its sailboat. The reinforced concrete structure of the sculpture was strengthened in 1986 on the recommendation of the NIIZB expert group under the leadership of R. L. Gray.
There are very few similar sculptures in the world, for example, the statue of Jesus Christ in Rio de Janeiro, Motherland-Mother in Kiev, a monument to Peter I in Moscow. For comparison, the height of the statue of freedom from a pedestal is 46 meters.
The most complex calculations of the stability of this design were made by Dr. Technical Sciences N. V. Nikitin - the author of the calculation of the sustainability of the Ostankino television. At night, the statue is illuminated by spotlights.
"The horizontal displacement of the upper part of the 85 meter monument currently amounted to 211 millimeters or 75% of the permissible calculations. Deviations go from 1966. If from 1966 to 1970, the deviation was 102 millimeters, then from 1970 to 1986 - 60 millimeters, until 1999 - 33 millimeters, from 2000-2008 - 16 millimeters, "the State Historical and Memorial Museum-Reserve said the director of FGUK" Stalingrad Battle "" Alexander Velichkin.
Interesting Facts
- The sculpture of "Mother's Mother" is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the biggest sculpture-statue in the world at that time. Its height is 52 meters, hand length - 20 and sword - 33 meters. The total height of the sculpture is 85 meters. The weight of the sculpture is 8 thousand tons, and the sword is 14 tons (for comparison: the statue of freedom in New York in the height of 46 meters; the statue of the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro is 38 meters). At the moment, the statue ranks 11th in the list of the highest statues of the world.
- Vuchetical told Andrei Sakharov: "I am asked the authorities, why her mouth opened, because it is ugly. I answer: she screams - for their homeland ... Your mother! - shut up. "
- There is a legend, according to which a person was lost shortly after creating a sculpture; After that, no one seen him. But this is only a legend
- The silhouette of the sculpture "Motherland-Mother" was taken as a basis for the development of the coat of arms and the flag of the Volgograd region
In the course of construction, Vuctech has repeatedly made changes to the project. A little-known fact: at first the main monument of the ensemble should look completely different. At the top of Kurgan, the author wanted to put the sculpture of Mother's Motherland with a red banner and a cranked fighter. On the initial plan, two monumental stairs were conducted. They managed to build when Vuchetich went to Khrushchev, the then leader of the country, and convinced him that it would be better if people would rise to the serpentine path.
But this is not all the changes that Master has introduced the finished project. About how it all happened, I was told by Valentina Klyushin, the former years of the Deputy Director of the Memorial. In the years of creating the complex, she worked in the Volgograd City Executive Committee and supervised the construction site.
- "Motherland-mother" Vuchetich decided to leave one. He removed the pompous pedestal, practically repeating the one on which his winner soldier stands in the Trept-Park. The main figure began above - 36 meters. But this option existed for long. As soon as the builders managed to make a foundation, as the author increased the size of the sculpture. Up to 52 meters! In the competition, the superpower was necessary that the chief monument of the USSR was higher than the American Statue of Freedom. I had to urgently "prigore" the foundation so that it can stand the 85-meter (together with the sword) sculpture, weighing 8 thousand tons. In the mound, then lay 150 thousand tons of land. And since the deadlines were pressed, a military battalion was allocated to help the brigades.
Validation came out with the current hall of military glory. It was assumed to install the panorama cloth. As soon as the "box" of the building was built, vuchetical decides that the panorama must be placed separately. What then did. And in the finished building around the perimeter of the walls there are mosaic banners with the names of the fallen defenders of the city. This question quickly spent quickly through the CPSU Central Committee.
With these most banners, there was also confusion. This is what Koshev told:
Worked with Mosaic Masters from Leningrad. And the art glass was supplied from the Ukrainian city of Lisichansk. Mosales laid out the interior as the material arrives. When everything was ready and removed the forests, everything was abuned. Tone on the wall was so distinguished that she resembled a chessboard. The term of delivery of the object was approached. And nothing remained anything, how to call "upstairs". This time Brezhnev. He immediately scored a rustle to the first secretary of the Central Committee of Ukraine and explained to him. In short, in a few days the car was taken to Volgograd a new glass.
Now imagine: in the courtyard June, it remains four months before the opening of the memorial. And it is necessary to restore the forests again, prepare and lay more than a thousand square meters of multi-colored glass pieces. The legendary commander of the 62nd Army of Vasily Chuikov very much helped here. By, by the way, he had a chief certificate of the project. At the disposal of the Staff of construction, 500 soldiers were submitted. Worked fighters in Stakhanovsky. After three weeks, the interior of the hall found a conceived appearance.
But these are not all the difficulties that the creators of the complex collided. In one of the spring days of the same 1967, the critical situation was formed with a 33-meter sword.
... As usual, the chief engineer Volgogradhrostroy Yuri Abramov in the morning went to work at the headquarters. On the way he came across a flock of boys arguing ... Why is it so strong swinging the sword in the hand of "Motherland"? Abramov raised his head and was horrified. Immediately conducted a RAM, and the next day the Special Commission came from Moscow. Soon it turned out that the designers did not take into account these perennial observations of the Rose of Winds. So it turned out that the sword turned out to be deployed in relation to the wind. I urgently had to make a few holes in it so that he could freeze freely. In addition, the Commission generally recommended replacing a heavy titanium sword on a lighter steel.
At the finish of construction, 50 powerful spotlights needed to highlight the sculpture. They could not get them anywhere. The country at that time was preparing to celebrate the 50th anniversary of October - and everything that was produced, it went to Moscow and Leningrad in difficultakers. The key was sent to the capital to the chairman of the MOSCORSPOLCOM. He said that Moscow is not able to help. And advised to travel to the manufacturer. And Klychev rushed to the city of Gusev, which in the Kaliningrad region. The director of "Electomasha" on request, too, only spread his hands. Then he thought and suggested Valentine to perform the factory radio before the workers and ask them to work on above the norm. Organized two additional shifts and searchlights "Sair" went to Volgograd. On October 15, 1967, the monument of the ensemble was solemnly open.
Eight years and five months continued construction. Almost forty years is a memorial. He always looked worthy. Even when everything in the country collapsed and came into disrepair, the grass was neatly trimmed in the mound. But only people working here know what this order costs. And how do you have to beat the money from the authorities of all ranks to patch and repair a huge unique farm.
Someone inadvertently expressed that, they say, "Mother's Mother" was so tilted that he could soon fall. Fuck it. "Any construction of this type," says the director of the memorial, retired Vladimir Berlov, - can bend. It is even stipulated by designers. For example, the project of our monument is designed to deviate 272 millimeters. Figure, - continues Berlov - constantly examined for the formation of cracks, roughness, its position is analyzed. And the analysis of concrete chips conducted in the German laboratory showed an excellent condition of the design and the presence of the necessary stock of the strength. From the inside it is supported by 99 tension ropes. Believe me, the director argues, this system will not allow the monument to put it up to a critical level. "
You can take a walk with Sergey Shares inside the monument
And here is a walk with Artemia Lebedev
At the end of June 1941, he saw the light, perhaps the main graphic work of the Great Patriotic War, which was included in all history textbooks - Poster Irakli Tidze "Motherland-Mother calls." According to his own recognition of the artist, the idea of \u200b\u200bcreating a collective image of a mother calling for helping his sons came into his head completely accidentally. Hearing the first message of Sovinformbüro about the attack of fascist Germany in the USSR, the spouse Tidza ran into his workshop with a cry of "War!". An expression of her face, the artist ordered his wife to stop and immediately began to make sketches of the future masterpiece. In the future, the very concept of "Mother Mother" became almost the cornerstone of the whole Soviet propaganda, embodied in countless imitation and swinging into related fields of visual arts, including monumental.
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You can safely call it the art of the highest level literally and figuratively. Statues from ancient times for people were a way to show their loyalty to religion or leave the memory of a significant historical personality. Obviously, the more the statue, the greater its greatness, so here is the top 10 of the highest statues in the world. Perhaps you have already visited places from the following and sculptures made an indelible impression on you, share your experience.
For example, I used to, of course, in Moscow and saw a monument to Peter Great, and also photographed in New York with the Statue of Freedom, there are plans to visit Rio de Janeiro and climb to the statue of Christ the Redeemer.
10. Statue of Christ-Redeemerwith open hands is located on the top of the Corcovad Mountain in Rio de Janeiro, is a symbol of the city and Brazil as a whole. The height of one of the most famous statues in the world is 38 m.
9. Monument-sculpture "Motherland", Located in Kiev on the shore of the Dnieper, towers in the sky at 62 m and is 102 meters along with the pedestal.
8. Statue "Motherland-Mother calls!"Volgograd, standing in the Russian city, is devoted to the "heroes of the Stalingrad battle." The total height of the monument is 85 m. The statue is a way of the Motherland, which calls their sons to fight the enemy.
7. Statue of Freedom (illuminating the world) - perhaps the most famous sculpture in the world, often called the US symbol. There is a copper statue on the island of freedom in New York, her height is 93 m including base.
6. Sculptural Monument to Peter I. in Moscow. The monument to the height of 98 m from bronze and stainless steel, installed on the artificial island at the merger of the Moscow River and the Outbargo Channel. The monument was developed by the Georgian architect Zurab Tsereteli and there is an unofficial opinion that the sculpture was initially devoted to Christopher Columbus, but being rejected by the American government, it was sold to Russia as a representation of Peter the Great.
5. Buddha statue - Sendai Dai Cannon Located in the Japanese city of Sendai. This sixth altitude statue in the world with a height of 100 m, has an elevator for tourists who can climb to the top of the statue and enjoy a breathtaking view.
4. Sculpture two first emperors China Jan.and Juan.Are in the city of Zhengzhou in China. The height of the sculptures is 106 m, which are the fifth in the altitude of the statue in the world.
3. Statue of Goddess Guagiain in Sanya 108 m height is located on the island of Hainan in China. The statue has three persons, one of which is drawn to the mainland of China, and the other two to the South China Sea, blessing China.
2. Bronze statue of Buddha Master Daibutsu Installed in Japan in the city of Master. Its height along with the platform and pedestal in the form of a lotus flower is 120 m. Tourists who want to admire the surroundings can rise on the elevator to the surveillance platform at an altitude of 85 meters.
- This is the largest statue in the world made of copper. Located in Henan Province in China. Its height is 128 m, including a pedestal, but if you still take into account the hill, on which the statue is located, then the height will be 208 m.
P Amyatnik "Motherland-Mother calls!" Opened in 1967. As the monument became the highest in the world, whose face of the female figure and what kind of sculptural "relatives", I remember 10 facts about the motherland.
Volgograd. Memorial complex "Motherland-Mother calls!". Andrei Izhakovsky / Photobank Lori
Competition without borders. The victory in the Stalingrad battle has become a turning point in the history of the Great Patriotic War. The competition for the creation of a monument in Stalingrad was announced in September 1944. Well-known architects participated in it, and soldiers sent their sketches by military field mail. Architect George Marcinkevich offered to put a high column with a figure of Stalin at the top, and Andrei Burov is a 150-meter pyramid with a frame of composhable tanks.
Projects came even from abroad - from Morocco, Shanghai. Interestingly, the competition did not take the participation of the future creator of the Motherland Evgeny Vucheth. There were legends that he discussed his project directly with Stalin.
Construction of the monument "Motherland-Mother calls!". Mamaev Kurgan, Volgograd. 1962. Photo: zheleznov.pro
Construction of the monument "Motherland-Mother calls!". Mamaev Kurgan, Volgograd. 1965. Photo: Stalingrad-Battle.Ru
Construction of the monument "Motherland-Mother calls!". Mamaev Kurgan, Volgograd. 1965. Photo: Planet-Today.ru
Changes in the composition. The sculptural composition should have looked different. It was assumed that next to the female figure will be the statue of a cranked soldier, stretching his mother's mother's sword. However, the initial composition of the monument seemed to Evgeny to march too complicated. He changed the project after approval from above. The sculptor had an important ideological argument: the soldier could not convey his sword to anyone, because the war was not over yet.
Who was the prototype? Art historians agree that Eugene Vuchetich inspired the bas-relief "Marselyza" in the Parisian Arc and an antique sculpture of Samofraki. However, who concretely posted him, it is not known specifically. It is most likely that the shape of Mother's Mother's sculptor sculptor from the Soviet athlete-Discolki Nina Dumbadze, and face with his wife faith. Today the mock of the head of the statue is kept in the Museum-Manor of Vuchetich in Moscow.
First reinforced concrete monument. Mother Mother became the first monument in the USSR fully made from reinforced concrete. In the 1960s, after the war, many more cities were not rebuilt, including Volgograd, and reinforced concrete was one of the cheapest materials. However, this choice caused some difficulties. For example, one year after the opening of the monument, small cracks began to form on it. In order to preserve the monument, the head and the sculpture hands are covered annually with a water-repellent means.
Soviet attendant Nina Dumbadze at competitions. 1950s Photo: RussiaInphoto.ru.
Bas-relief "Departure of volunteers to the front in 1792" ("Marsellise"). Triumphal Arch. Sculptor Francois Rud. Paris, France. 1836.
Sculpture "Nika Samofarakaya". Pyphocrit from Lindos. About 190 BC Louvre, Paris
Strengthening design. All engineering calculations were performed under the leadership of Nikolai Nikitin, which was built by the Ostankino television bash. The monument "Motherland-Mother calls!" When erected, it was not fixed: it stands on Earth due to its own weight. Metal ropes are stretched inside the statue, which make it more stable and maintain the rigidity of the metal frame. Today, sensors are installed on the cables, experts follow the structure of the design.
Monument of the era of three secrets. Although the contest of architectural projects was held in the 1940s, work on the monument began after Stalin's death. The construction order signed Nikita Khrushchev in January 1958. The monument was erected for almost ten years - it was opened in October 1967. At the opening, the Secretary General of the Central Committee of the CPSU was also present - at the time already Leonid Brezhnev.
The highest statue of the world. It was planned that the height of the mother's motherland would be 36 meters. However, Khrushchev ordered a "rest" a female figure. The statue at Mamaev Kurgan was to "overtake" a statue of freedom - its height without a pedestal was 46 meters.
After the end of the construction of the motherland, the mother was the highest statue in the world. The female figure towers over the pedestal of 52 meters, and taking into account the length of her hands and the sword, the height of the monument was 85 meters. Weight monument 8 thousand tons excluding a sword. Today, the mother-mother-mother stays in the top ten of the highest statues of the world.
Steel Sword. The statue sword was made on aviation technology. It was made of stainless steel and were trimmed with titanium sheets. But such a decision was not suitable for the monument - the sword was swinging and creaked in the wind. In 1972, weapons were replaced with steel with holes to reduce sailing. Because of the "problematic" sword, the designers of the monument did not receive the Leninist Prize. Monument "Motherland-Mother calls!". Sculptor Evgeny Vuchetich, architect Nikolai Nikitin. Volgograd. 1959-1967.
Monument "Warrior Liberator". Sculptor Evgeny Vuchetich, Architect Jacob Belopolsky. Berlin, Germany. 1949.
The image of the "Mother Motherland". The collective image of the mother's motherland appeared on campaign posters back in 1941. They were created by the Soviet painter Irakli Tidze. The artist recalled that his wife became the prototype of a woman on a poster. Hearing a message about the attack on the USSR, she ran into the artist's workshop with a cry of "War!". Irakli Tidze was shocked by her expression and immediately made the first sketches.
