"Home Front to Front" Memorial

Monument in Magnitogorsk, Russia Home Front to Front Magnitogorsk Памятник "Тыл - Фронту".jpg The "Great Patriotic War". April–May 1945 53 24 26 N 58 59 33 E type:landmark_region:RU-CHE inline,title Magnitogorsk Lev Golovnitsky and Yakov Belopolsky 1979 The Home Front to Front Memorial (ru Памятник «Тыл — фронту») is a bronze and granite monument located in the city of Magnitogorsk, Russia, sculpted by Lev Golovnitsky ru Головницкий, Лев Николаевич and drawn by Yakov Belopolsky. It is considered the first part of a triptych that tells the story of the "Victory Sword": the Sword, forged by the metallurgists of Magnitogorsk, was then raised by the Motherland in Stalingrad and lowered after the Victory in Berlin. This monument was unveiled in 1979.https://books.google.com/books?id=73WDbcjf6h0C&q=%D0%9F%D0%B0%D0%BC%D1%8F%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA+%C2%AB%D0%A2%D1%8B%D0%BB+%E2%80%94+%D1%84%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%82%D1%83%C2%BB&pg=PA109 Триумф и боль: советская и постсоветская память о войне 1941-1945 Ch. Links Verlag Jahn, Peter 2005 109 9783861533566 The monument is composed of a home front worker and a warrior. The worker, facing east, towards the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works, passes the sword to the warrior. The warrior is facing west (in the direction where the Great Patriotic War was waged). The three monuments are made to symbolize the sword being forged in Magnitogorsk, raised in The Motherland Calls in Volgograd (then Stalingrad) and finally dropped to the ground after the victory in Berlin as a part of Warrior Liberator."Победоносный чудо-меч", Izvestiya, 1975, no. 39 (17882, 14 February), p. 6. The composition includes a stone flower made from Karelian granite with an eternal flame. On May 6, 2022, the Bank of Russia issued a commemorative coin made of base metal with a nominal value of 10 rubles "Magnitogorsk". The series "Cities of labor valor" (Russian: «Города трудовой доблести»).Магнитогорск Банк России https://cbr.ru/cash_circulation/memorable_coins/coins_base/ShowCoins/?cat_num=5714-0082 2024-11-03 cbr.ru Gallery See also Monuments to home front workers and children of war References Category:1979 sculptures Category:Articles with quotation marks in the title Category:Bronze sculptures in Russia Category:Buildings and structures in Chelyabinsk Oblast Category:Colossal statues in Russia Category:Granite sculptures in Russia Category:Sculptures of men in the Soviet Union Category:Soviet military memorials and cemeteries Category:Statues in Russia Category:World War II memorials in Russia Category:Monuments and memorials in Russia Category:Objects of cultural heritage of Russia of regional significance Category:Cultural heritage monuments in Chelyabinsk Oblast Category:Sculptures of men in Russia Category:Magnitogorsk