Monument-monument " Eternal Flame " - a monument in honor of the military and labor glory of Yaroslavl during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 .
| Monument | |
| Monument Monument "Eternal Flame" | |
|---|---|
 Monument in honor of the military and labor glory of Yaroslavl during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 | |
| A country |  USSR →  Russia |
| City | Yaroslavl , Peace Boulevard |
| Sculptor | L. E. Kerbel |
| Architect | G. A. Zakharov |
| Building | 1968 |
| Material | granite , natural gas |
Located on Peace Boulevard on Chelyuskintsev Square in the historical center of Yaroslavl . Represents two relief granite walls and the eternal flame located between them. A warrior is depicted on the left wall to the viewer, and a woman worker on the right. Since the end of the 2000s, a view of the newly-built Assumption Cathedral [1] [2] [3] opens in the gap between the walls.
Authors - architect G. A. Zakharov , sculptor L. E. Kerbel . Opened on October 29, 1968. The fire was lit by the first secretary of the Yaroslavl regional committee of the CPSU F.I. Loshchenkov torch, lit from the fire at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow and brought to Yaroslavl twice by Hero of the Soviet Union Army General P.I. Batov and Hero of the Soviet Union Yu.I. Sirotkin . October 29, 1974 on the birthday of the Komsomol at the monument for the first time opened an honorary post. The right to stand at the Eternal Flame was granted to the Komsomol organization of the 18th secondary school of Yaroslavl. In 2009, the monument underwent reconstruction [1] [3] [4] [5] .
Among other things, the monument is one of the main sites visited by Yaroslavl newlyweds [1] [2] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Eternal Flame Archived March 4, 2016 to Wayback Machine . Wedding in Yaroslavl
- ↑ 1 2 On the Border of the Minced City Archival copy of June 25, 2011 on the Wayback Machine . veter-stranstvii.ru
- ↑ Pupils of Yaroslavl took up post No. 1 (inaccessible link) . Hometown
- ↑ 2GIS-Yaroslavl