Mamaev Kurgan
The memorial complex “Mamaev Kurgan” was build
in memory of the Battle for Stalingrad (now
Volgograd), very important and certainly the fiercest battle
in World War II. Here are some photos of it.
| Mamaev Kurgan, photos |
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| All photographs were taken by
Yuri Bakhtin in August, 2003.
The camera was Nikon
Coolpix 4300. |
The memorial
The head of the project:
sculptor Evgeny
Vuchetich; architectors:
Yakov
Belopolsky, V.A. Demin,
Fedor
Lysov; sculptors: M.S. Aleshchenko,
V.E. Matrosov, L.M. Majsterenko,
A.A. Melnik, V.A. Morunov, A.S. Novikov,
A.A. Tyurenkov; leading engineer:
Nikolaj
Nikitin; military consultant:
Vasily
Chuikov. The memorial was opened to public on October
15th, 1967.
The height of “Motherland” statue
is 52 m, the length of the sword
is 29 m. The weights are 8000 tonnes
and 14.3 tonnes, respectively. The pedestal has a form
of 23 m size square.
Links to other pages
• Mamaev
Hill
• Mamaev
kurgan — the main height of Russia (in Russian)
• The Voice
of Russia, exhibition 5
• The main height
of Russia — 102,0
• Memorial
complex Mamaev Kurgan (in Russian)
• The
height 101,0 (in Russian)
• Mamaev
Kurgan (in Russian)
• Mamaev
Hill memorial
• Mamaev
Kurgan (in Russian)
• Photos
of Northnet users
• Photos
on the page of Mathias Granqvist
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About the page
While being in Israel, Weizmann
Institute of Science, Misha Stepanov (MS)
wanted to show the photos of the Motherland statue
to Daniel Volk, a guy from Germany he worked
on clustering with. He was unpleasantly surprized, how few
and of which quality the photos were in the net.
Later while being at Princeton,
Institute for Advanced Study, MS
and Yura Bakhtin (YB),
who was born in Volgograd, discussed this point, and YB also
made internet search for Mamaev Kurgan photos, and he found
pretty the same (the situation is improved
from that time). Then MS and YB decided to make some
photos of the memorial, one of the wonders
of the world, and put them to the net.
