Black Tulip, War memorial in Yekaterinburg, Russia.
The Black Tulip Memorial features a central bronze statue of a soldier sitting with a rifle, surrounded by ten metal pillars reaching 10 meters high.
The memorial, completed in 1995, honors Russian soldiers who died during military operations in Afghanistan and later expanded to include casualties from Chechnya.
The memorial takes its name from the An-12 transport aircraft that carried fallen Soviet soldiers back home, which soldiers nicknamed Black Tulips.
The central statue measures 4.7 meters in height, weighs 4.5 tons, and includes 240 names of fallen soldiers engraved on the surrounding pillars.
The memorial recreates the cargo space of a military transport plane, incorporating metal pylons with chronologically arranged names of the deceased soldiers.
Location: Yekaterinburg
Inception: 1995
GPS coordinates: 56.84315,60.61734
Latest update: May 11, 2025 12:32
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