Ազատարար զինվորի հուշարձան, Bronze war memorial in Sovetsk, Russia
The Liberator Soldier Monument is a four-metre bronze sculpture of a Soviet soldier standing on a cylindrical pedestal, holding a small girl on his left arm and a lowered sword in his right hand. It stands in a public garden on Pobedy pedestrian street in Sovetsk and is a reduced variation of the Berlin Treptower Park monument.
Two sculptors serving their military term in Sovetsk, Marokhonko and Arkulis, made a copy of the Berlin Treptow Park monument as a gift to the city; it was unveiled in 1956 in the centre of a large round flowerbed, with Yevgeny Vuchetich's permission, and was the only copy of that monument in the USSR. Cast in cement, it deteriorated quickly, so a new bronze version was cast in 1991.
The monument stands in the centre of a large round flowerbed on the pedestrian Pobedy Street. It was a gift to the city from two sculptors, Marokhonko and Arkulis, who served their military term in Sovetsk and made the copy after obtaining Yevgeny Vuchetich's permission. It was the only copy of the Berlin monument in the USSR.
The monument stands in the centre of a large round flowerbed in the square on the pedestrian Street of Victory (ulitsa Pobedy). It is a four-metre bronze figure on a cylindrical pedestal, so it can be walked around and seen from all sides. The surrounding square is pedestrian, with no vehicle traffic.
The 1991 bronze cast is not an exact copy of the Berlin monument: about ten differences separate them. The soldier's head faces straight ahead, his right leg is forward, the sword hangs along his body, and the girl is barefoot with a calm face and a hand raised to her head.
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