Ինդիրա Գանդիի հուշարձան, Bronze monument in Ramenki district, Moscow, Russia
The Indira Gandhi Monument is a dark bronze figure of the Indian prime minister in a draped sari, her right arm raised and left arm lowered, standing on a tall pedestal of polished reddish-brown granite. A dark plaque with an inscription in a non-Latin script faces the front. Sculptor Oleg Komov and architects V. A. Nesterov and N. I. Komova made it, and it stands on a stepped platform on Indira Gandhi Square in Ramenki.
The monument was unveiled in 1987 when Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi attended the ceremony together. It marks the strong diplomatic ties that existed between the two nations at that time.
The raised right hand follows a greeting with which friends are traditionally welcomed; Rajiv Gandhi suggested it to sculptor Oleg Komov. A simple plaque on the pedestal reads "Indira Gandhi" in Cyrillic, and a granite slab nearby gives brief information about her and the authors. A short walk away, in the park, stands a monument to Mahatma Gandhi.
The monument stands on a natural rise on Indira Gandhi Square, at the crossing of Lomonosovsky and Michurinsky Avenues, beside the former Lithuania Cinema. A granite slab nearby gives brief information on Indira Gandhi and on the monument's authors, sculptor Oleg Komov and architects V. A. Nesterov and N. I. Komova.
The monument was the first memorial to an Indian political figure in Moscow and was based on photographs and video footage that the sculptor studied carefully. Komov worked from original reference materials to ensure accuracy in capturing the subject.
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