The monument “Black Tulip” was opened on August 2, 2012 on the Alley of Remembrance in the square near the Lazarevskaya church in the city of Pyatigorsk . Dedicated to residents of the city who died in the line of duty in Afghanistan and other "hot spots". In Afghanistan, 330 pyatigorskites served, in Chechnya - 1,500. 21 of them died.
| Monument | |
| Black Tulip Memorial | |
|---|---|
| A country |  Russia |
| City | Pyatigorsk |
| Build Date | 2012 year |
| Material | granite |
Content
- 1 Description
- 2 History of creation
- 3 notes
- 4 References
Description
The name of the monument was given by the unofficial name of the An-12 aircraft ( “Black Tulip” ), which took the bodies of dead soldiers (the so-called “ cargo 200 ”) from Afghanistan during the Afghan war .
The memorial is a cracked black granite stele on which the names of "hot spots" are embossed: large "Afghanistan", "Chechnya" and smaller "Angola", "Dagestan", "Egypt", "Syria", "Abkhazia" and others.
Creation History
The initiator of the installation of the monument was the Pyatigorsk Foundation for the Rehabilitation of Veterans of Local Wars and Armed Conflicts. The funds for the manufacture and installation of the Black Tulip - about 1.5 million rubles - were donated by entrepreneurs, philanthropists, fund employees, and residents of Pyatigorsk [1] .
Notes
- ↑ In the eternal grief “Black Tulip” (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment November 22, 2013. Archived December 3, 2013.