Museum of the Great Patriotic War (The Motherland)

It was planned that the monument will be covered with gold leaf, but this idea was abandoned. Metal frame made of stainless steel produced in Kiev. Welded steel plating specialists of the Institute of Electric Welding Institute behalf of the sheets 50x50 cm, thickness 1.5 mm. The total length of the seam is about 30 miles. The sculpture of this size was made for the first time in the USSR. It is made on behalf of the Kiev factory of the Paris Commune, taking into account the recommendations of the Institute of Electric Welding named after Paton Welding of elements of stainless steel sections, individual blocks weighing 25-30 tons sculpture collected by a specially built hundred-meter crane. Later this crane dismantled. To monitor the condition of all building structures set a strict regime of geodetic survey instrument. Regular annual surveys show that there are no abnormalities with respect to dynamic equilibrium. According to the experts, the monument "Motherland" to stand for over 150 years old. According to calculations, the statue can withstand even an earthquake measuring 9 points. For the movement of people and the maintenance of sculpture in the middle of the two elevators are installed - sloping and vertical (moving on rollers at an angle of 75 degrees), equipped with a platform for the examination. One of the elevators up to nine stops until the "head" of the motherland, which has hatches and technical grounds. You can climb to the "hand" with a shield and the other - with a sword. There is also a mounting platform. In the summer of 2002 was allowed to rise to the tourists areas otmetkok 36 meters and 92 meters. However, once in April 2003, a visitor fell from the top platform and crashed, access was restricted to tourists. The project started out well-known sculptor, author of Stalingrad memorial in Eugene Vucetic.

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Initially it was assumed that on the pedestal will rise 80-foot bronze-gilt figure of a woman. At the foot of the statue with a 30-meter height would flow into the Dnieper River Falls, on both sides of which the soldiers crossed the river. After the death of Vuchetich work headed Ukrainian sculptor Vasily Boroday. Composition subsequently undergone significant changes. Boroday developed a project which was implemented in collaboration with the Freedom Sagoyanom and Vasily Vinaykinym, as well as with architects Victor Yelizarov, George sour, Nicholas Feshchenko. According to one popular legend, during the construction of the monument to the Metropolitan of Kiev was negotiating with the first secretary of the Communist Party, Vladimir Shcherbitsky that the sculpture was not above the Great Lavra Bell Tower, near the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra. Allegedly, after this it was decided to shorten his sword sculpture. The tip of the sword is really below the top of the bell tower of 12 meters. However, the architects argue that this is done for a balance between architectural structures of the museum of the Great Patriotic War and Laura. The memorial complex covers an area over 10 hectares. It includes a museum with a monument "Motherland", the main square with alley-Cities heroes and sculptures, "Crossing the Dnieper" and "Transfer of Weapons", a gallery of heroes front and rear with bronze high relief compositions, the bowl "Fire of Glory", an exhibition military equipment and weapons, a separate building, where the expanded permanent exhibition relikviynye "The Tragedy and Valor of Afghan," "On the foreign wars," open to tourists visiting the Li-2 aircraft and Mi-24V. The main exposition of the museum building - a three-story building with an area in front of him, which holds up to 30,000 people. It is here that a national holiday in honor of Victory Day, the liberation of Ukraine and Kiev held citywide events with veterans and their descendants.