The monument to the "Front - Front" in Magnitogorsk is the final part of the great triptych

For 30 years there is a monument to the "Front - Front" in Magnitogorsk. It seems to the young generation of the city's residents that it was always above the Urals. A remarkable monument, executed by talented people, is the first monument to self-sacrificing labor and the feat of rear workers.

The first two great monuments

A great sacrifice of the peoples of the Soviet Union, brought during the Great Patriotic War, erected many monuments. But the most remarkable and significant is the triptych, which includes three monuments located at a distance of thousands of kilometers from each other and connected by one idea - the struggle and victory of Soviet people over fascist Germany. These monuments, known to the whole world, were erected at different times and were not originally conceived as a whole. The grandiose "Warrior-Liberator" monument in Treptow Park on the banks of the Spree was erected in 1949 in honor of the Great Victory. In 1967, one of the most beautiful statues in the world was created, which is the compositional center of the Stalingrad ensemble, the sculpture "Motherland Calls!". The author of these masterpieces was the genius Eugene Viktorovich Vuchetich. Both sculptures, one of which symbolizes the call to battle with the enemies, and the second - their complete rout and pain from realizing the huge price paid for the victory, hold the sword in hand. He, thrown into the heavens and tiredly dropped on the swastika, is a symbol of struggle and victory and at the same time a binding idea of both monuments.

Linked by one idea

In 1979, a monument to the "Front - Front" in Magnitogorsk appeared. This large-scale monument was conceived as the final part of the triptych, which tells the world about the greatness of the spirit of the Soviet people - both in the rear, at the front, and at the moment of the Great Victory. In the world there is absolutely nothing equal to this unified idea of monuments. The author of the last part of the triptych is the sculptor Lev Nikolaevich Golovnitsky. The architect of the remarkable monument was Yakov Borisovich Belopolsky, who was the author of the first two monuments. This fact is very symbolic and, as it were, closes the triptych in the ring.

Feat of the Survivors

The monument to the "Front - Front" in Magnitogorsk is not accidental. Of course, the entire rear of the huge country worked under the slogan "Everything for the front, everything for victory". But the share of defense enterprises in the capital of the Chelyabinsk region was unprecedentedly great: every second tank and every third projectile got to the front from here. People worked day and night and died right next to the machines.

Description of the Magnitogorsk monument

What is the monument to the "Front - Front" in Magnitogorsk? For its erection on the bank of the Urals was poured an 18-meter, reinforced inside a reinforced concrete frame, a mound. The very two-figure composition, made of bronze, 15 meters high, represents the moment the warrior takes the Victory sword forged by the workers of the rear. Sculptures stand facing each other - the worker who handed the sword is deployed in the direction of the Magnitogorsk plants - to the east, and the warrior who accepted it - towards the front line, to the west. The sword, which is the peak of the composition, will then be raised over the field of the Battle of Stalingrad, which was a turning point in the war, and dropped on the defeated swastika in Berlin.

A magnificent ensemble on the bank of the Urals

Eternal fire burns in a stone rose made of Karelian granite. The sculptures of the worker and the warrior were cast at the factory in Leningrad. The Monument "Unity of the rear and front" in Magnitogorsk is supplemented with two trapezoidal forms with a height of just below 2 meters, on which are carved the names of Magnitogorsk heroes of the Soviet Union who received this title during the Great Patriotic War. In 2005, a beautiful monument was added by two marble triangles, on which the names of the city's residents who died at the front were immortalized. A total of about 14,000 people. The author of the monument "Rear Front" in Magnitogorsk Lev Nikolayevich Golovnitsky more than adequately completed a great triptych.