Monument to Tagil warriors

The monument is a hunched figure of a soldier with a machine gun on his right shoulder and a beret in his left. The figure of a soldier is cast from cast iron and stands on a wide granite pedestal. The warrior bowed his head to the torn circle of the planet and the cross. The names of 58 Tagil residents who fell in battles in Afghanistan , Nagorno-Karabakh , North Ossetia and Chechnya are immortalized on the sloping granite pylons surrounding the soldier. The height of the monument with a pedestal is 4.6 m, weight - 5 tons. An alley leads to the monument from the side of Goroshnikov Street , above which, at the entrance to the memorial site, a cast-iron arch in the form of a laurel wreath on a granite base is installed.

On December 18, 1992, a conference of internationalist soldiers was held in Nizhny Tagil , one of the resolutions of which was the decision to perpetuate the memory of soldiers who died in Afghanistan . Although a monument to the Afghan soldiers was already erected in the city in 1988, it was decided to erect another memorial: with the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan and the collapse of the USSR, local wars did not stop, and soldiers from Nizhny Tagil continued to die in them.

In 1996, three former “Afghans” were elected to the City Duma of Nizhny Tagil , and the board of the Nizhny Tagil branch of the Russian Union of Afghanistan Veterans decided to dedicate a future monument to all Tagil residents who fell in local conflicts. At the same time, a place was chosen for the memorial on the embankment of the Nizhny Tagil pond next to the Demidov central city hospital. Fundraising for the monument began, and a competition for monument projects was announced. The competition was won by the project of the Tagil sculptor Anatoly Glebovich Neverov, called "Wade into the unknown."

The laying of stone at the site of the memorial took place on August 2, 1997. In 1998, funding for the monument in the amount of 400 thousand rubles was approved, but before the financial crisis of 1998, only a tenth of the construction budget was spent, and the subsequent price increase made this amount insufficient. In this regard, a fundraising campaign was announced among citizens. During the telethon, February 20, 1999, 324,620 rubles were collected from the townspeople and enterprises of the city. By June 1999, work on the model of the monument in the workshop of A. G. Neverov was completed, and in August of the same year, the casting of the monument in bronze began at Tagil Casting, as well as the improvement of the site and the facing of pylons with granite .

The grand opening of the monument took place on October 9, 1999, attended by the head of the city N. Didenko, former commander of the 40th Army, Army General Viktor Yermakov , leaders of the Russian Union of Afghanistan Veterans and others.

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