Keyboard monument, Public art sculpture near Isset River, Yekaterinburg, Russia

The Keyboard monument is a concrete sculpture shaped like an oversized computer keyboard near the Isset River in Yekaterinburg, Russia. The structure spreads across a small hillside with blocks arranged in the layout of Russian keyboards.

Anatoly Vyatkin created the concrete keyboard in 2005 as a special project for the Long Stories of Yekaterinburg festival, with an ironic intent: the keyboard as a graveyard of ideas. Producers from ArtPolitics changed the concept, removing the irony and choosing concrete over foam concrete. Keys F1, F2, F3 and Y were stolen and restored in August 2011.

The monument uses Russian Cyrillic letters as they appear on keyboards across Russia, with each heavy concrete key cast and assembled separately. Visitors often use the surface to walk between keys or sit on them.

The sculpture stands along a marked walking route that connects numerous sights in the center and is easy to reach on foot. The artwork sits near the river, so visitors can combine it with a stroll along the waterfront.

The keys sit in recesses 15 cm apart, and the author Anatoly Vyatkin has said they seem to grow out of the ground or sink into it: ground movement and meltwater have pushed some deeper and slid others toward the river. In 2019 Yandex ranked it second among Russian monuments in search queries, behind the Bronze Horseman.