Unique and unusual monuments of Irkutsk

This ancient Siberian city has a rich history. It loves to stop tourists who come to rest on Lake Baikal. Thanks to the many monuments of Irkutsk, any, even a short, stop here 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 historic center of the city, you can see the original sculpture of a woman, who grasps the sable with his teeth. This monument is overgrown with a lot of funny stories. They willingly share the townspeople. For example, the word "babr" is translated from Yakut as "Ussuri tiger". From the end of the XVII century, this animal was an ornament of the city coat of arms. Two centuries later, one of the officials, who did not know about the transfer, wanted to correct the inaccuracy in the description and replace the letter "a" with the letter "o". Up to 1997, the mistake was not paid attention.

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

Gaidai and his heroes

This sculptural composition was cast from 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 - Trus, Bulbes and Experienced. The monument is set next to the same school in which the famous director was studying.

Monuments to writers

The modern street of the October Revolution (its former name - the Governor's) meets guests and citizens with a monument to A.S. Pushkin, inaugurated 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 was made a granite pedestal, it engraved one of his famous works - a poem "In the depths of Siberian ore ...". The choice of it, as well as the location of the monument is not accidental. Since it was in this street that the Irkutsk merchant and philanthropist Yefim Kuznetsov once lived. It was in his house that the wife of the Decembrist Muraviev stopped when she reached the Chita prison. With her she had two Pushkin poems, and one of them is placed on a pedestal.

We list the monuments of Irkutsk, photo with names also given in this material.

The fate of Alexander Vampilov (Russian playwright and prose writer) is closely intertwined with the city. His homeland is a village not far from Lake Baikal, his student life passed in Irkutsk. His first creative work was created as a student, and then he was first known as an excellent playwright. The scene of the Irkutsk Drama Theater saw his first plays.

A tribute to the memory of a playwright is the street named by him and the Theater of the Young Spectator, a motor ship plying the lake. Funds for the installation of the monument were collected by the townspeople. The date of installation is 2003. Above the monument worked already known to us MV. Pereyaslavets. The playwright is depicted in full growth, he stands in a free, laid-back pose. The sculptor portrayed Vampilov as the most ordinary person the moment he thought. The height of the monument is two meters.

Monuments to historical personalities

We continue the conversation about the monuments of Irkutsk. And here we can not fail to mention the monument established by Alexander III. This he patronized the construction of the Great Trans-Siberian Railway. The date of installation is 2008. The author of the project is the sculptor V.V. Bach. The figure of Alexander III was installed on a granite pedestal, on three sides of it - bas-reliefs. Speransky, Ermak and the Governor N.N. Muravyov-Amursky - these outstanding figures made a great contribution to the development of the region.

We listed only a few monuments of Irkutsk. Unique and unique - so you can say about city monuments, sculptures and sculptural compositions. The above photos of monuments of Irkutsk to that clear confirmation. When visiting the city, you should also admire the monument to surveyors-prospectors, the monument "Egg" (dedicated to Russian-Japanese relations), the sculpture "Kopeika".