The Beatles Monument, Cast-iron monument in Leninsky District, Yekaterinburg, Russia

The Beatles Monument in Yekaterinburg consists of cast-iron silhouettes of the four band members set against a brick wall on the bank of the Iset River, near the Malyshev Street bridge at Gorky Street 8. The figures are slightly taller than human height, and the wall bears the lyric "The love you take is equal to the love you make."

The monument was initiated by members of the Ural Beatles Club, who raised the 2.5 million rubles themselves, with no money from the city budget. Fundraising difficulties, including benefit concerts and auctions, delayed the opening by six years. The cast-iron silhouettes were cast in 2007 at a factory in Mikhaylovsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast, and the monument was unveiled on 23 May 2009.

The silhouettes were deliberately left flat: for Soviet teenagers of the 1960s and 1970s the Beatles were an unreachable dream, and listening to their records could be punished by the authorities. The wall beside the monument has since become a memorial to dead musicians, with inscriptions and images of Kurt Cobain, Lil Peep and Chester Bennington.

The cast-iron silhouettes stand against a brick wall by the Iset River at Gorky Street 8, next to the Malyshev Street bridge; the Keyboard Monument is a short walk away. The ground in front of the wall is paved with polished granite.

The silhouettes were cast in 2007 at a foundry in Mikhaylovsk, in the southern Sverdlovsk region, whose director was also a Beatles fan. The brick wall behind them was built specially on the Iset embankment, and the ground in front was paved with polished granite.