The iron lady of Ukraine Bashny.Net

The monument-sculpture "mother Motherland", standing in Kiev on the high right Bank of the Dnieper. Refers to "the National Museum of the great Patriotic war of 1941-1945". In 1981, Victory Day, the complex was opened by the General Secretary of the CPSU Leonid Brezhnev.


The Central figure of the Museum is the monument "the Motherland". The sculpture stands on the Dnipro river and is visible from distant points of the Ukrainian capital. The sculpture from the pedestal to the tip of the sword -62 m, overall height -102 m, weight — about 500 tons, the Monument "Motherland" — a unique structure. For the first time in the USSR the sculpture of such dimensions was made at the Kiev plant.The Paris Commune taking into account the recommendations of the Institute of electric them.E.About.Paton welding stainless steel blocks-individual sections weighing 25-30 so During installation there are over thirty kilometers of welding seams. At the highest point of the sword there is a special device for damping wind loading.




At the foot of the monument is a Museum.For the movement of people and maintenance of sculpture in the middle of the assembled two unique lift — inclined and vertical. On высоте36 meters viewpoint.


Today there are annual instrumental geodetic survey of the monument, which show the absence of any deviations in dynamic equilibrium.



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