Памятник Степану Халтурину, Monument in Kirov, Russia
The monument to Stepan Khalturin stands in a park on Moskovskaya Street in Kirov. It consists of a 2.7-metre statue on a 5.5-metre pedestal, giving a total height of 8.2 metres. The pedestal bears a memorial plaque reading "Stepan Khalturin. 1856–1882". The authors are sculptor N. I. Shilnikov and architect I. A. Charushin.
The monument was erected in 1923 and belongs to the early Soviet monumental programs commemorating revolutionaries and resistance figures. It documents how the new Soviet state inscribed its past and symbols into public spaces.
Stepan Khalturin, born in 1856, joined the "Northern Union of Russian Workers" and organized the 1880 explosion at the Winter Palace. The monument, opened on 7 November 1923 under Lenin's plan of monumental propaganda, carries a memorial plaque reading "Stepan Khalturin. 1856—1882".
The monument stands in the park on Moskovskaya Street in Kirov, on the site where it was unveiled on 7 November 1923. Its total height of 8.2 m, with a 5.5 m pedestal, makes it visible from a distance; the memorial plaque reading "Stepan Khalturin. 1856—1882" faces visitors at the base.
The statue was made in Moscow and brought to Vyatka in pieces, then assembled on site. The pedestal carries a memorial plaque reading "Stepan Khalturin. 1856—1882". The figure itself measures 2.7 m, while the whole monument rises 8.2 m, of which the pedestal accounts for 5.5 m.
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