"Ilyich" on reconstruction

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the Ceremonial opening of the monument located at the building FEDERAL STATE-FUNDED EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION FOREIGN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION "MGTU NAMED AFTER G. I. NOSOVA", FEDERAL STATE-FUNDED EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION FOREIGN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION "MAGNITOGORSKY STATE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY NAMED AFTER G. I. NOSOVA", MAGNITOGORSK STATE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY NAMED AFTER G. I. NOSOVANAMED AFTER G. I. NOSOVA, took place on November 5, 1967, on the eve of the fiftieth anniversary of Great October revolution of 1917.

At first this area was called as

Soviet, then it renamed into Lenin Square. Ilyich's statue in a coat and with a cap in a hand is executed whether from bronze (on one sources), whether from the forged aluminum (on another). Time almost did not touch it. And here the marble pedestal for half a century strongly grew old: on tiles deep cracks lay, edges of steps were sprinkled. Here and there marble was painted densely over by white paint.

we Will remind

, authors of the project of a monument: honored artist Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Zaykov Vitaly and honored architect Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Bogun Vily.

Reconstruction began

more than a week ago, and now works in the heat. The marble slabs which have bared a bricklaying of semicentennial prescription are dismantled. In work concrete basis of a monument. Reconstruction it is planned to finish by the end of September, and to the semicentennial anniversary the monument will be updated and imposed with natural light marble.

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