Monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky, Ufa, Bronze monument in Dzerzhinsky Park, Ufa, Russia

The Monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky is a bronze standing figure of the first chairman of the Cheka, cast at the Leningrad plant Monumentskulptura and set on a polished Karelian granite pedestal 3 m high. Sculptor Albert Seraphimovich Charkin's work stands in Dzerzhinsky Park behind the Rodina cinema, turned toward Krupskaya Street rather than the building it once faced.

The monument was created in 1987 by Leningrad artist Albert Seraphimovich Charkin. It honors Felix Dzerzhinsky, the founding leader of Soviet state security organizations.

The monument's popular name, "With His Back to the Motherland," comes from its position behind the Rodina ("Motherland") cinema, which it faces away from. At the 1987 unveiling, old communists Alexander Efremov and Nikolai Samodelkin attended; both had met Dzerzhinsky personally in 1924.

The monument stands in Dzerzhinsky Park behind the Rodina cinema, near the Prosecutor's Office building on Krupskaya Street. Approach from the cinema side to see the figure from the front, since it faces away from the Rodina. A row of poplars planted behind the statue in 1987 frames the granite pedestal.

The monument's popular nickname is "With His Back to the Motherland", because it stands behind the Rodina ("Motherland") cinema and is turned away from it. The first 1986 design faced Chernyshevsky Street toward the KGB entrance; Ufa's chief architect Farit Rikhmukov had it turned toward Krupskaya Street instead.