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Monument To Felix Dzerzhinsky, Ufa
The Monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky () is a sculpture of Felix Dzerzhinsky, the first chairman of the Cheka, in Dzerzhinsky Park (Ufa), Dzerzhinsky Park in the city of Ufa in Bashkortostan, Russia. History The statue was erected in Ufa in 1987 near the building of the Bashkir KGB (now - the building of the Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Bashkortostan) in the park behind the Rodina Cinema, Ufa, "Rodina" cinema. The sculptor of the monument was the Leningrad artist Albert Seraphimovich Charkin. The sculpture was cast at the Leningrad plant "Monumentskulptura". Simultaneously with the installation of the monument, a row of Populus, poplars were planted behind it. The popular name of the monument is "With his back to the Motherland" because the monument is behind the "Rodina" ("Motherland") cinema and is turned away from it. See also * Monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky, Moscow References {{coord, 54.7278, N, 55.9500, E, source:wikidata-and-enwiki-cat-tree_region:RU ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bashkortostan
Bashkortostan, officially the Republic of Bashkortostan, sometimes also called Bashkiria, is a republic of Russia between the Volga river and the Ural Mountains in Eastern Europe. The republic borders Perm Krai to the north, Sverdlovsk Oblast to the northeast, Chelyabinsk Oblast to the east, Orenburg Oblast to the south, Tatarstan to the west and Udmurtia to the northwest. It covers . It is the seventh-most populous federal subject in Russia and the most populous republic. Its capital and largest city is Ufa. As of 2025, it has a population of 4,046,094. Bashkortostan was established on .Национально-государственное устройство Башкортостана, 1917–1925 гг: Общее введение и Том 1 // Билал Хамитович Юлдашбаев, Китап, 2002, , 9785295029165Хрестоматия по истории Башкортостана: Документы и материалы с древнейших време ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |