Black Tulip Monument, Red Army Square, Ekaterinburg, Russia
A giant bronze sculpture of a soldier holding a kalashnikov, forms the monument ‘Black Tulip’ to remember lives lost in World Wars I and II, and the Afghan and Chechnya wars Square of the Soviet Army (Black Tulip) From the Cathedral take the Pervomayskaya Street east until you come to a great square. Among fountains, a giant bronze sculpture of a soldier sits in thought, holding a kalashnikov. This is part of a huge war memorial remembering Russia’s involvement in modern conflicts. ‘The Black Tulip’ memorial is especially dedicated to those killed in the Soviet Union’s war in Afghanistan, from 1979 to 1989. More than 15,000 Soviet military personnel were killed and more than a million Afghan civilians and Mujahideen. During the campaign, Russian soldiers named the cargo planes that carried the coffins of their dead comrades back for burial the ‘black tulips’. From here streets show off the city’s varied architecture from 19th Century factories to the Soviet era’s functional ‘constructivism’ style, and Stalin’s neo-classicism with friezes depicting the hammer and sickle.
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Photo credit: © Lee Karen Stow / Alamy / Afripics
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