Installation of an obelisk on the Uprising Square. Stalin's skyscraper on the Uprising Square. History and general information
Z Namenskaya Square is one of the most famous in St. Petersburg.
Now in the center of the square there is a stele in the form of a bayonet, but this was not always the case. The area has changed a lot appearance compared to imperial times (and the only one on Nevsky Prospekt) and has changed compared to Soviet times.
Popularly, the square was named Znamenskaya after the chapel of the Church of the Sign of the Blessed Virgin Mary, consecrated in 1765. In 1794 - 1804, according to the design of the architect F. I. Demertsov, the church was rebuilt in stone. In 1809, a cast-iron fence and two chapels appeared (both were rebuilt by P. A. Chepyzhnikov during the renovation of 1863-1865). From the name of the church (“Znamenskaya”), Znamenskaya Square and Znamenskaya Street (now Vosstaniya Square and Street) got their names. The bridge over the Ligovsky Canal, located on Nevsky Prospekt, was also called Znamensky.
I feel sorry for the church. Many great people attended it, including Academician Pavlov.
My maternal great-grandmother got married in this demolished church...
This is a document and below is herself... Although the seal is not very similar to the original. Maybe there was another Znamenskaya?
Previously, on the square there was a monument to the Trans-Siberian Railway in the form of the equestrian Emperor Alexander III.
IN Soviet time the monument stood with the inscription "SCARECROW". And then it was demolished and now it stands behind the backyard in the courtyard of the Marble Palace) and then the Church of the Sign itself.
There are interesting folk poems about the monument.
“There’s a chest of drawers, there’s a hippopotamus on the chest of drawers, there’s a hat on the hippopotamus, what kind of fool is this daddy?!”
Ilyich was supposed to appear on the square. Lenin and St. Petersburg are tightly connected. It was not for nothing that the city was Leningrad. They sculpted so many monuments that the political bird had nowhere to spoil.
With the advent of people's power, the square received the name "Uprising Square". And Lenin in the center would be its classic socialist conclusion. The name obliged, where else if not there...
There was even a stone laid on the square with the inscription: (You’ll go straight...) “A monument to Lenin will be built here. Laid down on the day of the celebration of the 250th anniversary of Leningrad." But, fortunately, it didn’t work out.
The fact that the 250th anniversary of Leningrad was celebrated four years later still surprises contemporaries. But this reason is banal and respectful - Stalin died in 1953, there was no time for celebrations. They mourned for four years. In addition, Khrushchev did not like Leningrad (all Soviet leaders were distinguished by this). They did not expect anything good from the intelligentsia and culture. But this is not the main reason why the monument to the leader was never erected.
According to some estimates, at that time (1957) in Leningrad there were only seven monuments and busts of Lenin in the open air, mainly on the territory of factories. But then, at least one Ilyich a year appeared in our city.
This is the remains of the Znamenskaya Church. Now this is the metro lobby. You can come in and pray...
Of course, Vosstaniya Square is a serious place, not a backyard near a factory warehouse; you can’t erect a monument here from the corner.
There is a legend that there was a competition. And the work of the sculptor Anikushin, the main and most “star” Leningrad sculptor of that time, won. But the authorities could not install the monument correctly. He did not get up according to all the canons of socialist feng shui. All the time he turned backwards towards something... or sideways towards some urban dominant. No matter how you install Lenin, your ass doesn’t lead to communism and doesn’t paint bright prospects, but the matter is political. If you put your outstretched hand towards Nevsky, what about the passengers leaving the Moskovsky station? Foreign guests will go out to the city of the world revolution and the first thing they will see is Ilyich’s backside. Politically incorrect!
They lasted until 1965, and then the order arrived to erect a monument to the hero city of Leningrad in connection with the twentieth anniversary of the Victory Day, and it was decided to build an obelisk on Vosstaniya Square that would look the same from all sides."
True, this obelisk to the “Hero City of Leningrad” was finished only twenty years later, already in independent Russia. As Rosembaum wrote, they stuck a bayonet into the heart of the city... as they say, it’s a beautiful phrase, but if you’re serious about an architectural solution, then it’s a matter of taste and color. For example, I like it. There is not enough vertical space in our city.
Vosstaniya Square.
If you look at a map of the central region of St. Petersburg, it is easy to see that it is drawn by two almost straight lines intersecting at a slight angle. At the place of the only bend there is one of the significant city squares - Vosstaniya Square.
This historical place has always served as the city’s main entrance gate, and today the Moskovsky railway station is located here with all the necessary infrastructure: the Oktyabrskaya hotel to accommodate visitors, the Ploshchad Vosstaniya metro station for their further travel, and the Obelisk to the “Hero City of Leningrad” as business card city, emphasizing its high status.
History and general information
In the first decade of the 18th century, two clearings were cut to the Novgorod highway, which passed here even before the founding of St. Petersburg. One came from, the other from. Due to an error in the calculations, the second section approached the road a little to the north, and the trajectory of the clearing gave a bend.
At this place, an extensive intersection of the new Great Prospect (Nevsky Prospekt) and the old Novgorod road (Ligovsky Prospekt) was formed. The construction of the wooden Church of the Sign of the Blessed Virgin Mary transformed the intersection into Znamenskaya Square. The wooden building of the temple, erected on the orders of Empress Elizabeth in 1765-1767, was then rebuilt in stone by the architect F. I. Demertsov.
Until the middle of the 19th century, there was a wasteland here, when muddy roads turned into a swamp. From the description of the famous lawyer A.F. Koni, made in 1840: “Znamenskaya Square is vast and deserted... Two-story and one-story houses frame it, and past... a river flows, along the steep banks of which grass grows. The water in it is cloudy and dirty, and rough wooden railings stretch along the shore...”
Everything changed with construction railway between Moscow and St. Petersburg (1843-1851), when it was decided to build a terminal station on the southern edge of the square.
Moscow station
The bright station building, designed by architect K. A. Ton, topped with a two-tier clock tower, looking more like a palace than a passenger terminal, transformed the square.
Until 1924, the station was called Nikolaevsky, as was the railway line. The building, built in 1844-1851, was rebuilt several times, and now only the facade, a twin of the Leningradsky Station in Moscow, has survived from its original design.
Oktyabrskaya Hotel
In accordance with the plan for the transformation of Znamenskaya Square, developed by the architect N. E. Efimov, a hotel building with rooms, a winter garden, concert hall and a restaurant. Built in 1857, the Znamenskaya Hotel changed its appearance and names several times: “Znamensky Station”, “Northern”, “Bolshaya Severnaya”.
In the 20th century, it received a name that has survived to this day - “Oktyabrskaya”. Now, looking at the solid building of the hotel, it is difficult to believe that in the 1920s it housed the city hostel of the proletariat (GOP), street children from all over Petrograd were brought here, which is where the word “Gopniks” came from - unpresentable inhabitants of Ligovka...
Monument to Alexander III
In 1907, the first tram line, laid along Nevsky Prospekt, connected the station with the Admiralty. Two years later, a monument to Alexander III, as the founder of the Siberian Railway, was erected in the center of the station square.
The equestrian statue, made by sculptor P. P. Trubetskoy, caused conflicting reviews; many considered it a caricature and demanded its removal. However, the monument remained on the square until 1937 and became a witness and an involuntary participant in historical revolutionary events.
Znamenskaya Square found itself at the center of massive popular unrest, bloody clashes with the police, rallies were held here and barricades were built. In memory of the February Revolution in 1918, the square received its modern name.
The Bolsheviks left a monument to the autocrat and, in a very peculiar way, used it for propaganda purposes. In 1919, the lines of D. Bedny were carved on the pedestal:
“My son and my father were executed during their lifetime,
And I reaped the fate of posthumous infamy:
I’m hanging here as a cast-iron scarecrow for the country,
Having forever thrown off the yoke of autocracy.”
For the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution in 1927, a bronze statue of the monarch was used in the festive decoration of the square. She was imprisoned in an iron cage, with masts, a wheel and the inscription “USSR”.
After 10 years, the monument was nevertheless put into storage. Now the sculpture is on public display in the courtyard.
Obelisk and metro station
The modern appearance of Vosstaniya Square was formed in the middle of the last century.
In the center of Vosstaniya Square, in memory of the Great Patriotic War and the courage of the city’s defenders who defeated fascism, for the 40th anniversary of the Victory, the Obelisk “Hero City of Leningrad” was erected, made of a 360-ton granite monolith in the form of a pentagonal stele designed by architects V.S. Lukyanov and A.I. Alymov.
The Church of the Sign was demolished in 1940, and in its place a pavilion was built for the Ploshchad Vosstaniya station, which opened in 1955 as part of the first stage of the metro. This is a deep pylon station (58 meters), the design of its underground hall is dedicated to the October armed uprising.
The round classical station building with risalits and a rotunda with a spire, which was originally decorated with a star in a laurel wreath, belongs to the objects cultural heritage and is a symbol of the St. Petersburg metro. Before the opening of the Obelisk, crowned with the hero's golden star, the star on the spire of the metro station was replaced by the letter "M", then lost.
Vosstaniya Square is always crowded and noisy, holidays transforms and looks especially impressive and colorful. And the first thing every visitor sees when leaving the station building is “Hero City Leningrad”. Thus, the heroic past of the city, with which the history of the square is closely connected, is reminded of itself by the neon inscription on the Oktyabrskaya Hotel.
Where is it and how to get there
Vosstaniya Square is located at the intersection of Nevsky Prospekt and Ligovsky Prospekt in historical center St. Petersburg.
You can get there by metro to the Ploshchad Vosstaniya station of the same name.
Back in the 17th century, the Novgorod Highway ran through the territory now called Vosstaniya Square, which ran along a sandy ridge washed up by the ancient Littorina Sea. The natural elevation protected the area from flooding. In 1710, construction began on the Great Perspective Road (the future Nevsky Prospekt), which two years later connected the Admiralty with the Novgorod Highway. The resulting intersection later became Vosstaniya Square. From 1712, for six years, a road was built here from the Alexander Nevsky Monastery. It connected with the Novgorod Highway just north of the Bolshaya Perspektivnaya Road, which predetermined the only break in Nevsky Prospekt.
In 1718-1725, the Ligovsky Canal was dug along the Novgorod tract to supply water to the fountains of the Summer Garden. There was a wooden bridge across the canal here.
There is often a version in guidebooks that Peter I initially wanted to build a road from the Admiralty to the monastery in a straight line. But two teams of construction workers made a mistake and brought two sections of the highway here, which allegedly resulted in the only turn on Nevsky Prospekt. To make it even more convincing, the narrators supplement this story with the fact that Peter I ordered the builders to be flogged at the turning point. This story has nothing to do with reality.
Under Empress Anna Ioannovna in the 1730s, an attempt was made to bring Nevsky Prospekt to the dome of the Holy Trinity Cathedral. A new one was laid parallel to the Nevskaya Perspective Road, thus creating the routes of modern Goncharnaya and Telezhnaya streets. But later this idea was abandoned, returning the old road to its former name - Nevsky Prospekt.
In the middle of the 18th century, between Vosstaniya and Mayakovsky streets there was a royal poultry yard, and opposite, across the prospect, there were stables and a dog yard. Vosstaniya Square at that time was a huge wasteland. From 1744 to 1778, to the north of the wasteland, the Elephant Yard was located - one of the first menageries in Russia. Its territory was surrounded by a fence, and a sign was hung at the gate with the inscription “Her Majesty’s Elephant Hunt.” Next to the menagerie, various foodstuffs were traded from carts.
At the same time, this place was still sparsely populated. According to the historian P. N. Stolpyansky, here once " at 9 o'clock in the evening... a wolf appeared, ran at the fireman who was inspecting the lanterns, knocked him down and, tearing his left cheek with his teeth, began to run...". [Quoted from: 2, p. 11]
At the corner of Nevsky Prospekt and the Ligovsky Canal in 1765-1767, by order of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna wooden church In the name of the Entry of the Lord into Jerusalem, which became known among the people as Znamenskaya. The temple acquired this name from one of its chapels - the Sign of the Most Holy Theotokos, consecrated in 1765.
After the closure of the Elephant Yard, carriage sheds grew up in its place, next to which there were wooden residential buildings. They stood mostly in the depths of the plots, exposing only fences to the future square.
This place remained outside St. Petersburg for a long time. In bad weather, the wasteland turned into a swamp. To allow vehicles to pass along it, logs were laid, on top of which wheel tracks (two rows of boards) were installed. In 1772, temporary sidewalks were installed along the roadway, which appeared by order of Catherine II for access to the Alexander Nevsky Monastery. Cobblestone streets appeared here only at the end of the 18th century.
The architectural dominant of the square in 1794-1804 was the new stone Church of the Sign, built according to the design of F.I. Demertsov. In 1809, the temple was surrounded by a cast-iron fence with two chapels in the corners.
The atmosphere of this place in the 1840s was described by the famous lawyer A.F. Koni: " Znamenskaya Square is vast and deserted... Two-story and one-story houses frame it, and past... a river flows, along the steep banks of which grass grows. The water is muddy and dirty, and rough wooden railings stretch along the shore". [Quoted from: 2, p. 13]
Since 1849, this place has been referred to as the square to the Znamensky Bridge. Since 1857 - Znamenskaya Square, after the nearby Znamenskaya Church.
In the first third of the 19th century, the eastern side of the square was marked by the wooden house of the merchant A. Timofeev, on the site of which a three-story stone building was built in 1835. Behind it, in 1846-1850, the architect Z. F. Krasnopevkov rebuilt the carriage house (Nevsky Prospekt 91). The tower of the moving house was clearly visible from Znamenskaya Square; it was a noticeable part of the appearance of this place.
This place played a special role when it was decided to build the final station of the railway between St. Petersburg and Moscow on its southern outskirts. In connection with this, the architect N. E. Efimov in 1844 developed a plan for the layout of Znamenskaya Square. It was approved by the highest on February 8, 1845. The plan was implemented as part of the construction in 1847-1851 of the Nikolaevsky (now Moskovsky) station according to the design of K. A. Ton (Nevsky Prospekt 85). With its opening, Znamenskaya Square became the main “gateway” to St. Petersburg.
Since 1843, “calibers” (they were also called “guitars”) - droshky with a narrow seat for two people - began to carry passengers from Znamenskaya Square to the Admiralty. With the opening of railway traffic from St. Petersburg to Kolpino in 1847, omnibuses began to travel from here - covered carriages for 20 people. St. Petersburg residents nicknamed them “I’ll embrace” or “the forty martyrs.”
About construction railway station the city knew in advance. Therefore, land in the area quickly rose in price and began to be purchased business people for the construction of hotels and apartment buildings. The plot on the northern border of the square was given free of charge by Nicholas I to the merchant Ponamarev “and his comrades” for the construction of a hotel here. The merchant was obliged to begin construction in 1845 and complete it three years later. But Ponamarev did not fulfill his obligation. The site was given to Count Stenbock-Fermor. By 1851, that is, by the opening of the railway between St. Petersburg and Moscow, the northern side of Znamenskaya Square was decorated with the building of the Stenbock-Fermor hotel (Nevsky Prospekt 118).
Since August 1863, a ring of horse-drawn railways ("horses") was located on Znamenskaya Square. The carriages were supposed to run every 10 minutes every day from 9 am. However, the schedule was almost never respected, since the cars were stationary final stop until fully occupied by passengers.
Until the mid-19th century, Znamenskaya Square and its surroundings were illuminated by oil lanterns. Their rectangular pillars were painted with black and white stripes, and on each of them hung four burners. They shone weakly, giving light only a few steps away. In the second half of the 19th century, they were replaced by gas lamps.
Order on Znamenskaya Square was maintained by a security guard, whose black and white booth stood at the wide Znamensky Bridge. He was dressed in a gray uniform of coarse cloth and armed with a halberd. The guard had an impressive shako on his head. The duty was carried out in two shifts. One of the guards was resting in the booth, and the second was keeping order. They were helped by an occasional assistant. The order of the St. Petersburg Chief of Police in 1866 prescribed:
“The guards from the Anichkin Bridge... should be strengthened at night to suppress robberies, and in addition, sometimes... should go around Znamenskaya Square one by one throughout the night” [Quoted from: 2, p. 13].
In 1867, the house of the merchant A. Timofeev, by order of the new owner, furniture manufacturer K. A. Tur, was built on and rebuilt by the architect G. M. Barch (Nevsky Prospekt 87). Another year later, a building was built on the opposite side of Nevsky Prospect - a four-story house of the Chesnokov merchants (Nevsky Prospekt 120). The Ligovsky Canal in the Znamenskaya Square area was taken into a pipe and filled in in 1892. It was replaced by Ligovskaya Street, now an avenue. The Znamensky Bridge was dismantled as unnecessary.
The first St. Petersburg taxi began carrying passengers in 1897 from Znamenskaya Square to the Admiralty. Ten years later, the tram and bus that replaced the horse-drawn tram began running here. The newspaper “Petersburg Leaflet” wrote about the latter on October 5, 1907: “ Yesterday... members of the partnership made... a test flight on the only motor omnibus in St. Petersburg. The omnibus completed the entire trip from Nikolaevsky Station to Alexandrovsky Garden in 9 minutes, overtaking 5 horse-drawn carriages". [Quoted from: 2, p. 40]
In 1909, the center of the square was decorated with an equestrian monument to Emperor Alexander III by sculptor P. P. Trubetskoy.
Since 1910, when Nevsky Prospekt was covered with ends to Fontanka to Znamenskaya Square, one of the first traffic lights worked here. Then it was a circle painted in three colors with an arrow moved by a traffic controller.
In February and June 1917, crowded demonstrations and rallies and clashes between the rebels and the police took place on Znamenskaya Square. In memory of the revolutionary events in October 1918, this place became known as Vosstaniya Square.
Regular bus routes from Vosstaniya Square appeared in December 1926. From here the bus went to Vitebsky Station and further to Palace Square. There were initially five cars on the line.
In the early 1930s, the Znamenskaya Church was going to be closed. But then the world famous scientist Ivan Petrovich Pavlov had influence on the city government. According to one legend, Pavlov got married in this church. It is also known that the scientist was a deeply religious person and often visited here. Immediately after his death, the temple was demolished in 1936; the area it occupied remained for a long time surrounded by a fence, behind which the first station of the Leningrad metro was built.
In 1937, the monument to Alexander III was moved to the courtyard of the Mikhailovsky Palace.
The Great Patriotic War stopped the turbulent life of Vosstaniya Square. The last train left the Moscow station on August 29, 1941. The tram did not work in winter, but the following spring Leningraders managed to get it working again. On March 20, 1944, the first post-blockade train to the capital departed from the Moscow station. On this occasion, a ceremonial farewell ceremony for the train took place on the square.
In 1950-1952, the facades of all buildings on Vosstaniya Square were restored. In 1952, its center was occupied by a square, in which a foundation stone was installed. In its place it was planned to erect a monument to V.I. Lenin. By this time, the tram ring had been removed from the square, and the tram stopped running along Nevsky Prospekt. The roadway of the square was filled with asphalt concrete.
The place of the Znamenskaya Church was taken by the pavilion of the Ploshchad Vosstaniya metro station, built according to the design of I. I. Fomin, B. N. Zhuravlev and V. V. Gankevich, opened on November 5, 1955. This metro station was one of the first eight to open in Leningrad.
The obelisk "Hero City Leningrad" was opened in the center of Vosstaniya Square on May 8, 1985, on the 40th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.
In the 1980s, projects began to be created to create a two-level interchange on Vosstaniya Square, thanks to which the already heavily congested transport node. Ligovsky Prospekt, according to the plans of Soviet engineers, was supposed to pass under Nevsky. However, due to the high cost, the project was not implemented by the 1990s, and then, due to a change in the economic system, it was completely forgotten. In the 2000s, the project of creating a new building under Vosstaniya Square was widely discussed. shopping center. But due to the fact that underground work can negatively affect the condition of neighboring historical buildings, modern architects treat this project with great caution. Its implementation is also expensive for a modern capitalist economy. At the same time, there are still proposals to replace the obelisk with a monument to Alexander III.
A reflection of the architectural Stalinist era of the 40s and 50s in Moscow were seven monumental multi-story buildings, which tour guides and residents of the capital refer to only as “”. One of these high-rise buildings is located on Kudrinskaya Square, which until 1992 was called Vosstaniya Square. One of the architects wrote in his memoirs that the design of a high-rise building was associated with the development of the overall composition of the area, so that the building was organically connected with it, becoming flesh of its flesh.
Architectural design of a high-rise building
Construction of the giant residential building began in 1948 and lasted almost 6 years. Two talented Soviet architects A. Mndoyants and M. Posokhin worked on the project of the future high-rise building in close and fruitful collaboration with the designer M. Vokhomsky. The building is a high 24-level central building, to which two side wings with 18 floors each are symmetrically adjacent, making up the overall structure of the structure. The entire mass of the building rests on a powerful basement floor. In total, the residential building contains about 450 apartments.
Traditionally for Moscow high-rise buildings of that time, the main facade was topped with a tower with a spire, and together with the pointed top, the Stalinist skyscraper totaled more than 150 meters. The decoration of the house are openwork attics, turrets and sculptural groups on the façade. The architect's plans also included framing the structure with green spaces, but the original plan was never realized.
The building looks no less majestic inside. Marble staircases, huge lobbies decorated with mirrors and luxurious chandeliers. Large entrances have three elevators, while small ones have one elevator.
For whom was such a luxurious building built, and who received apartments in a prestigious building? Some of the apartments were provided to workers in the aviation industry; designers and test pilots found housing in the center of Moscow. Their neighbors were the party nomenklatura and high officials of the state apparatus. But, nevertheless, the high-rise building was often popularly called the “house of aviators.” However, behind this gigantic residential building another name stuck: “high-rise building on Vosstaniya Square.” The upper floors were residential, while the ground and ground floors were occupied by shops and a cinema.
Later, the technical rooms located in the side buildings were converted into residential ones. And for the 850th anniversary of the capital, the Moscow high-rise was cosmetically renovated, patched up, the tiles of the facades were cleaned, in a word, they were renovated.
What the legends say
It is often said that the construction of the high-rise was carefully controlled not only by construction supervision specialists, but also by more serious services: the Safety Committee. This shouldn’t be surprising at all; you need to remember at what times the house was built. There is also talk about some mythical secret corridors in which residents’ conversations could supposedly be overheard. Legends are legends, but in a house, for example, each floor could be tightly isolated from stairs and an elevator landing, and a spacious bomb shelter and underground garages were equipped in the basement.
Stalin's skyscraper today
More than half a century has passed since the construction of the Moscow high-rise building; it has outlived its creators and even the state in which it was erected, but still remains a prestigious apartment building. The upper floors, as before, house office space, many of which are rented by various commercial structures. The cinema has not been operational for a long time, and a bowling alley is open in the basement.
The house continues to live its own life and is an object of tourist interest, like other high-rise buildings of the Stalin era.
Vosstaniya Square is located in central region Old Palmyra. It is one of the symbols of the city and is included in the historical cultural capital countries. Vosstaniya Square is not a simple name. Her story is unique and interesting.
Up until the capital was moved back to Moscow, Vosstaniya Square had a completely different name - Znamenskaya. It is located at the junction of Nevsky Prospekt, its only turn, and Ligovsky Prospekt. What is the reason for this name of the square? The thing is that in the first third of the last century there was a church of the same name here. And finally the name “Znamenskaya” was assigned to it in the year the construction of the station, called “Nikolaevsky”, began. In 1917, it was here that the bloody, violent events of the last two Russian revolutions unfolded. The famous February manifestos were proclaimed here, and heavy battles and skirmishes took place here. And so next year the square will be renamed in a modern way. In the mid-20th century, the Ploshchad Vosstaniya metro station was opened on the square. The station belongs to the 1st metro line. Inside it is decorated with bronze sculptures that reflect the terrible events of the February and
Vosstaniya Square has its own long history, dating back to the time of Elizabeth. During her reign, the Znamenskaya Church was founded here, a project that was carried out by Demertsov. It is worth noting that the church was rebuilt more than once. The square itself was formed only in the second quarter of the 19th century, when the main ensemble of the square was laid out according to Efimov’s design. This was connected, first of all, with the construction of the second Petersburg (Vosstaniya Square)-Moscow railway in the country. The famous architect Ton built it here, but then, as mentioned above, it was called Nikolaevsky. A little later, according to Gemlian’s designs, the Znamenskaya Hotel, better known as “Oktyabrskaya”, will be erected, as well as the famous clergy house designed by engineer Sokolov. In the spring of 1909, a monument to Alexander the Liberator will be solemnly opened on the square; after 28 years, the monument will be transported first to the Russian Museum, and then installed in Marble Palace. During the Great Patriotic War, military installations were built on the square - it was a kind of springboard for all soldiers and commanders.
And already in 1945, the winners were greeted in a big way at the restored Moscow railway station. In the early 1980s, an obelisk was erected in honor of the 40th anniversary Great Victory. Monuments of this type were built in all hero cities by order of the Communist Party. is a symbol of the square.
Vosstaniya Square in St. Petersburg is not easy a nice place, this is more than the elegance of monuments. This historical square! The place where Lenin spoke was also visited by Alexander II. This is the place where the fate of the country was decided in 1917. And it must be stored and protected. It's not that difficult after all!