The Monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky () is a sculpture of

Felix Dzerzhinsky Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky (; ; – 20 July 1926), nicknamed Iron Felix (), was a Soviet revolutionary and politician of Polish origin. From 1917 until his death in 1926, he led the first two Soviet secret police organizations, the Cheka a ...

, the first chairman of the

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, in Dzerzhinsky Park in the city of Ufa in

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History

The statue was erected in Ufa in 1987 near the building of the

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(now - the building of the Prosecutor's Office of the

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) in the park behind the "Rodina" cinema. The sculptor of the monument was the Leningrad artist

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. The sculpture was cast at the Leningrad plant "Monumentskulptura". Simultaneously with the installation of the monument, a row of 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.

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History

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