Памятник Марату Казею, Bronze and granite monument in Central district, Minsk, Belarus.
The Marat Kazei Monument is a three-metre bronze figure on a wide pedestal of truncated pyramid form faced with granite, set in the centre of Minsk's Marat Kazei Park. The young partisan is shown in his final fight, grenade raised before the throw, his face and posture conveying resolve.
The monument was erected in 1959 with funds collected by pioneers of the Byelorussian SSR. Before the bronze figure was installed, a memorial stone stood on the site, inscribed: "A monument to the pioneer-hero MARAT KAZEI will be built here. 3 November 1957." The authors were sculptor S. I. Selikhanov and architect V. M. Volchek.
The park around the monument is named after Marat Kazei and was formerly called Pionersky Park. In Soviet times, pioneer induction ceremonies, ceremonial line-ups and wreath-laying took place at the statue, and poems were recited here. A copy of the sculpture is kept in the Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War in Minsk.
The monument stands in the centre of Marat Kazei Park, also called Pionersky Park, in Minsk. The bronze figure rises on a granite plinth, so it can be viewed from all sides on foot; the surrounding park paths give access to the base. A copy of the sculpture is kept in the Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War.
A copy of the monument stands in the Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War in Minsk, and the sculpture appears several times in the 2017 television series "Black Blood". Before the bronze figure was raised, a memorial stone stood on the spot, inscribed with the promise of a monument to Marat Kazei dated 3 November 1957.
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