The Monument to Richard Sorge ( az, Rixard Zorgenin abidəsi) - is a monument to Hero of the
Soviet Union Richard Sorge, a Soviet intelligence officer during the
Second World War. The monument is located in
Baku
Baku (, ; az, Bakı ) is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region. Baku is located below sea level, which makes it the lowest lying national capital in the world a ...
, the capital of
Azerbaijan, near the village of
Sabunchu, where Sorge was born. It was installed in 1981. The sculptor is
Vladimir Tsigal
Vladimir Yefimovich Tsigal (Russian language, Russian: Владимир Ефимович Цигаль; 17 September 1917 4 July 2013) was a Soviet sculptor.
Biography
Vladimir Tsigal was born on 17 September 1917, in Odesa to a Jewish family. ...
, the architects are Rasim Aliev, Leonid Pavlov, Y. Dubov.
The monument was unveiled in May 1981 on the eve of the
Victory Day, in one of the alleys of the city (currently in the park named after Richard Sorge). The bronze and granite monument is framed by pines, plane trees, and mulberry trees, and nearby, in land brought from Japan, a cherry tree.
The sculptor Vladimir Tsigal said:
The monument to Richard Sorge is made in the form of an oblong, curved bronze plaque, reminiscent of a radar installation, in the centre of which there is a relief image of the middle part of Sorge's face with the cut right through the stone eyes which depicts his piercing gaze – focused and studying shrilling the person. In this generalized, conventional image, the sculptor tried to create a symbol of the Soviet intelligence officer.
A photograph of the monument illustrated an article about Tsigal in the
Azerbaijan Soviet Encyclopedia.
[{{cite book, author=Jamil Guliev, title=Azerbaijani Soviet Encyclopedia / Сигал Владимир Јефимович, year=1984, location=]Baku
Baku (, ; az, Bakı ) is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region. Baku is located below sea level, which makes it the lowest lying national capital in the world a ...
, publisher=Главная редакция Азербайджанской советской энциклопедии, volume=VIII, page=417
References
Monuments and memorials in Baku
1981 establishments in Azerbaijan
World War II memorials
War in popular culture