Monument to Yakov Sverdlov, Bronze monument in Paris Commune Square, Yekaterinburg, Russia.
The Monument to Yakov Sverdlov stands on Paris Commune Square, between the Ural Federal University and the Opera and Ballet Theatre. The bronze figure is 3.93 m tall, set on a rough-hewn grey granite pedestal 5.2 m high, giving a total height of 5.20 m. Sverdlov is shown bareheaded with his right arm extended, wearing a leather jacket.
The monument was created in the 1920s by sculptor Matvey Harlamov and architect Sigismund Dombrovskyi. It was installed to honor an early Soviet leader whose name the city carried until it reverted to its previous name.
Sverdlov is shown bareheaded with his right arm extended, the pose he used when speaking to Ural workers. The inscription on the granite base reads "To Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov (Comrade Andrei) — the workers of the Urals." Since the Soviet era the monument has been a city symbol, and it has been paint-bombed more than once.
The monument sits on a public square that is easy to reach on foot, positioned at a street intersection in the central district. The location offers enough space to walk around and view the sculpture from different angles.
The monument stands where a stele to the Paris Commune was erected in 1919; in 1927 the Sverdlovsk authorities replaced it with the Sverdlov monument. The bronze figure was cast at the Leningrad plant Krasny Vyborzhets, and the monument was unveiled on 15 July 1927, the eighth anniversary of the city's capture from Kolchak's forces.
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