Sightseeing in Abakan
The Monument to V.I. Lenin
The monument to Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was built on the Pervomayskaya Square, near the House of Government (earlier there was a fountain, look at the photoalbum) on the 16th of April, 1970.
The authors of the monument are the sculptor U.P. Pammer and the architect N.A. Kovalchuk. They aspired to create an image of the proletariat leader in the period of the Siberian exile.
The monument is made of bronze, granite, marble. Eight-meter figure of the monument was made by casters of the factory “Monumentsculpture” named by M.G. Manizer in Leningrad.
The Monument to the fallen in the Great Patriotic War
The construction of the monument to the soldiers fallen in the Great Patriotic War was launched in Abakan on the 15th of May, 1974.
The authors of the monument are sculptors U.G. Pammer and M.L. Skovorodin, the architect N.A. Kovalchuk. The monument was placed in the park of Victory (former Chernogorsky park) along the Lenin prospect. The monument was devoted to the 30th anniversary of Victory over the fascist Germany.
The composition consists of 3 parts. At the beginning of the ensemble there are paths with lawns and flower beds. In the middle of the composition there is the eternal fire to glory of soldiers dead for fatherland. Behind the eternal fire you can see another sculptural composition which consists of 2 figures: a Russian soldier and a Khakass soldier. In this composition the authors expressed the idea of joint battle of Russian and Khakass peoples against Hitler aggressors. Russian and Khakass soldiers are going to attack.
The composition is constructed in the shape of the hill according to the traditions which have been kept in Khakassia for many centuries.
The extension of the composition is more than 100 meters, and about 40 meters wide; the territory is flagged by concrete.
Figures of Russian and Khakass soldiers (height of 5 meters) are made of bronze, pedestal and plate of eternal fire are made of granite. The total height of the monument is about 12 meters.
The Monument to dead Communards
The construction of the monument to dead communards was devoted to the 10th anniversary of October, 7th of November, 1927. The following lines are written on it: “Eternal glory to dead fighters for Great October revolution, shot kolchaks: A.O. Stashevsky, S.A. Stashevsky, E.A. Stashevskaya, K. Nikitin, P.S. Aphipenko, S.M. Sidorenko, F.A. Medvedev, A.K. Rostembersky”
There is no Soviet Union, but there are monuments. Because they refer to our past, this is our history. Who are these people, shot communards?
The surname Stashevsky is mentioned tree times. These people are father, son and daughter. In 1905 Anton Osipovich was sentenced to death for “distemper” by the tsar government, but later the sentence was changed into the lifelong exile in Siberia. During the revolution he was elected the president of Sovdep of the village Ust-Abakan (former name of Abakan). White Guards found him and taunted him, then they shot him near the Abakan river. His son Stanislav Antonovich was caught during the execution of the combat mission. He resisted till last cartridge. When partisans returned, they found Stanislav lying on the snow. His feet were burnt, he was put in the fire. At the same time Elena Antonovna Stashevskaya was brutally killed in the village Chilany, Taptypshsky region. The worker of the Abakan station F.A. Medvedev was killed for that he gave a partisan the rifle which he brought from German front. S.M. Sidorenko helped partisans to cross the Yenisei. A.K. Rostenbersky was a devoted Soviet adherent and fought to the end.
P.S. Originally there was a mistake in the inscription. Andrei Postenbergsky was a shot communards, but not A. Rostembersky as it was written. This refers to the archival list of the monument.
The Communal Grave
The communal grave of soldiers of the Red Army who died of wounds in hospitals in Abakan during the Great Patriotic War.
The grave is situated in the city cemetery, Telman Street, where the monument to dead soldiers designed by Abakan architect and artist N.I. Yatmanov was built on the 9th of May, 1965. There are 2 figures: soldier and Mother-Land, bent to the banner. There are 5 memorial boards located along the both sides of the monument on which 97 surnames of the fallen soldiers are written.
Ahmedov
Gaysin F.
Nesvitaylo P.I.
Bozin N.V.
Zabelin S.Z.
Vatlin P.G.
Karpenko P.I.
and others
The memorial inscription on the monument says: “Eternal glory to soldiers dead for the Motherland during The Great Patriotic war of 1941-1945”.