Monument to the Teacher - a bronze sculpture in the city of Toropets, Tver Region ( Russia ), dedicated to the image of the teacher . The monument was not erected in honor of a specific person, but as a tribute to the residents of the city who are “sowing the rational, good, eternal.” The monument was created with the money collected by graduates of the Toropetsk school No. 1 of 1940-1950, among which was a heart surgeon Vladimir Almazov . Monument to the Teacher is a recognized attraction of the ancient Russian city, attracting the attention of tourists [1] .
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Monument to the Teacher | |
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A country | Russia |
City | Toropets |
Sculptor | Yu.G. Orekhov , V.Kh.Dumanyan |
Material | bronze |
In September 1968, the 60th anniversary of secondary school No. 1 was celebrated in Toropets. More than 300 graduates of the school, starting in 1913, decided to erect a monument to all teachers who not only taught, but also defended their homeland with weapons in their hands. Together with their graduates, the director of school No. 1 A. I. Svetikov, teachers I. N. Gavrilov, D. I. Bureau, Y. T. Bloch, P. A. Zheleznyakov, S. M. Mikhailov, and P. went to the front. Ya. Egorov [2] .
The monument to the teacher, designed by Moscow sculptors Yu. G. Orekhov and V. Kh. Dumanyan , who worked for free, was opened on June 27, 1974 , on the 900th anniversary of the founding of Toropets. The words: “To the teacher from grateful students” are carved on the monument. The monument, installed on Komsomolskaya Street, opposite the secondary school No. 1, became the first monument to the teacher in the USSR and Russia [3] . The figure represents the teacher teaching the lesson : a thin middle-aged man stands in the pose of a narrator, leaning on a school desk .
Every year, on the Day of Knowledge and Teacher's Day , young Toropane people lay flowers at the monument [4] . There is a custom in secondary school No. 1: the graduation class is necessarily photographed in front of the monument to the Teacher. Not without signs: the student stroking the foot of the monument will not have problems with grades [5] .
See also
- Monument to the first teacher in Saratov .
- Monument to the first teacher in Rostov-on-Don .
- Monument to the school desk .
Notes
- ↑ News of Toropets. Monument to the Teacher is 35 years old! (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment November 17, 2011. Archived on May 10, 2012.
- ↑ L. Efimova. Monument to the teacher // Science and Life: Journal. - 2010. - No. 6 . - S. 62 .
- ↑ Miracles of Russia: Monument to the Teacher in Toropets.
- ↑ Cultural tourism. Toropets. Monument to the teacher.
- ↑ Julia Ovsyannikova. Monument to the teacher in Toropets: the most popular landmark of the ancient city . Presidential Library . Russian reporter. - 2013, No. 22 (300), June 06–13. - 2013. - S. 85. - (postcard).