The monument to front-line correspondents is set in Moscow in front of the entrance to the Central House of Journalist on Nikitsky Boulevard in the Arbat district.
| Monument | |
| Monument to frontline correspondents | |
|---|---|
 Monument to Frontline Correspondents in Moscow | |
| A country |  Russia |
| City | Moscow |
| Sculptor | Kerbel, L. E. |
History
As a veteran of journalism Fedor Tsaryov, he and his colleagues turned to the sculptor Lev Kerbel , who at a meeting with them confessed that he would like to capture “the figure of a journalist crouching to write a correspondence to the newspaper” [1] . The sculptural composition “Monument to Front Correspondents” was made by sculptor L. E. Kerbel and architect E. G. Rozanov. It is the figure of a correspondent in a cloak , sitting on the ruins of the Reichstag . There are orders on his chest, a camera is hanging, a pencil and a notebook in his hands, a duffel bag at his feet. Behind the journalist is a half-destroyed column with an inscription on top (quotation from the song of front-line correspondents “ From Moscow to Brest ” - the text by Konstantin Simonov , music by Matthew Blanter ) [1] :
With a watering can and with a notebook, or with a machine gun through fire and cold, we passed ...
and below
Journalists of the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945
The whole sculpture is on a small granite pedestal.
The monument was opened in 1993. Here on holidays, veteran journalists gather, flowers are laid at the monument.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Fedor Tsaryov. How to create a monument to front-line journalists . Moscow Union of Journalists. The appeal date is May 8, 2015.
Links
- Monument to Frontline Correspondents . Intomoscow.ru. The appeal date is August 10, 2014.
- Monument to Frontline Correspondents (Inaccessible link) . MosGid.ru. Circulation date August 10, 2014. Archived August 12, 2014.
- Monument to Frontline Correspondents . rutraveller. The appeal date is August 10, 2014.