Unique and unusual monuments of Irkutsk

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:43

This ancient Siberian city has a rich history. Tourists who come to rest on Lake Baikal like to stay in it. Thanks to the many monuments of Irkutsk, any stop here, even a short one, leaves a lot of pleasant impressions and memories, as well as a desire to return here again.

Monuments of Irkutsk: photo with description

Once in the historical center of the city, you can see the original sculpture of a babr holding a sable tenaciously in its teeth. This monument is overgrown with a lot of funny stories. They are willingly shared by the townspeople. For example, the word "babr" is translated from Yakut as "Ussuri tiger". Since the end of the 17th century, this animal has been an ornament of the city coat of arms. Two centuries later, one of the officials, who did not know about the translation, wanted to correct the inaccuracy in the description and replace the letter “a” with the letter “o”. Until 1997, the mistake was ignored.

The modern composition (the date of its installation is 2012) is both a bright symbol of Irkutsk and a reminder of that funny oversight. Babr is complemented by a beaver's tail, webbed feet, but at the same time it is an exact copy of the beast that is depicted on the historical coat of arms. This is the story of just one ofmonuments of Irkutsk.

Gaidai and his heroes

This sculptural composition was cast in bronze. The size of the director's figure is 3.4 meters, the size of the figures of each of his characters reaches 2.5 meters. Gaidai himself is depicted sitting in the director's chair, on the opposite side of him we see the legendary heroes of his films - the Coward, the Dunce and the Experienced. The monument was erected next to the very school where the famous director studied.

Monuments to writers

Modern street of the October Revolution (its former name - Gubernatorskaya) greets guests and citizens with a monument to A. S. Pushkin, solemnly opened in 2010. The authorship of the monument belongs to the People's Artist of Russia M. V. Pereyaslavets, a famous Russian sculptor, creator of many monuments.

To install the bust of the poet, a granite pedestal was made, one of his famous works was engraved on it - the poem "In the depths of Siberian ores …". The choice of it, as well as the location of the monument, is not accidental. Since it was on this street that the Irkutsk merchant and philanthropist Efim Kuznetsov once lived. It was in his house that the wife of the Decembrist Muravyov made a stop when she got to the Chita prison. She had two Pushkin poems with her, and one of them was placed on a pedestal.

We list the monuments of Irkutsk, we also provide photos with names in this material.

The fate of Alexander Vampilov (Russian playwright and prose writer) closelyintertwined with the city. His homeland is a village located not far from Lake Baikal, in Irkutsk he spent his student life. His first creative works were created as a student, at the same time the first fame came to him as an excellent playwright. The stage of the Irkutsk Drama Theater saw his first plays.

Tribute to the memory of the playwright is the street named after him and the Theater of the Young Spectator, the motor ship plying on the lake. Funds for the installation of the monument were collected by the townspeople. Date of installation - 2003. M. V., already known to us, worked on the monument. Pereyaslavets. The playwright is depicted in full growth, he stands in a free, relaxed pose. The sculptor portrayed Vampilov as an ordinary person at the moment when he is thinking. The height of the monument is two meters.

Monuments to historical figures

We continue our conversation about the monuments of Irkutsk. And here it is impossible not to mention the monument erected to Alexander III. It was he who patronized the construction of the Great Trans-Siberian Railway. Date of installation - 2008. The author of the monument project is the sculptor V. V. Bach. The figure of Alexander III was installed on a granite pedestal, with bas-reliefs on three sides of it. Speransky, Yermak and Governor N. N. Muravyov-Amursky - these outstanding figures made a great contribution to the development of the region.

We have listed only a few monuments of Irkutsk. Unique and inimitable - this can be said about city monuments, sculptures and sculptural compositions. Givenphotos of the monuments of Irkutsk are a clear confirmation of this. When visiting the city, it is also worth admiring the monument to surveyors-surveyors, the monument "Egg" (dedicated to Russian-Japanese relations), the sculpture "Kopeyka".