The Motherland Calls — Attraction in Tsentralnyy District

The grandiose monument at the top of the Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd leaves no one indifferent. Locals affectionately call him Mama, but the whole world knows the statue as "Motherland Calls!" She depicts a woman in fluttering clothes, holding a sword raised to the sky in her right hand. Appeal and rage are written on her face, her mouth is distorted with a cry, as if raising 35 thousand soldiers to attack from the memorial cemetery behind her. The creation of the outstanding Soviet sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich personifies the pain and glory of our people, delighting with strength and dynamism.

The statue is a very complex engineering facility, built of pre-stressed reinforced concrete using the same technology as the Ostankino TV tower, its builder N.V. Nikitin supervised the work here as well. The sculpture weighs 8000 tons, its height is 85 m, the 33-meter 14-ton sword is made of fluorinated steel. The interior space is divided into 11 floors connected by stairs. The tension of the 116 steel ropes pulling the statue down from the inside, and the vibration amplitude of the sword, are continuously...

You can't put in words how beautiful this place is. It's an amazing memorial that you won't ever forget in your life. Even though I live in Chicago, this is the city I was born in. It was previously named Stalingrad and from what any history will tell you is that the battle of Stalingrad was most likely the bloodiest battle during World War II. The River Volga was running red with blood. Almost every building in the city was completely leveled to dust. This memorial is a commemoration to those millions of Russian who have died during World War II. Overall the whole place is beautiful in and of itself. And it has an amazing atmosphere you won't forget. The statue is said to be the tallest and most grand female statue in the world. Just standing under it and looking up will give you a sense of how small you are compared to it. All of the statues there and even the cathedral is a beautiful and eye opening place. I would definitely...

he Motherland Calls is the compositional center of the monument-ensemble "Heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad" on Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd, Russia. It was designed by sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich and structural engineer Nikolai Nikitin, and declared the tallest statue in the world in 1967. It is the tallest statue in Europe, the tallest statue (excluding any pedestal) of a woman in the world and the tallest freestanding non-religious statue in the world. The monument is the central part of the triptych, consisting of the monuments "Rear-Front" in Magnitogorsk and "Warrior-Liberator" in Berlin's Treptower Park. It is understood that the sword, forged on the bank of the Urals, was later raised by Motherland in Stalingrad and dropped after the...