Legendary Tachanka

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The 2014 memorial
Detail view from behind

Legendary Tachanka ( Легендарна тачанка Lehendarna tachanka , Russian Легендарная тачанка Legendarnaja Tachanka ) is a monument in the city of Kachowka in the southern Ukrainian Oblast of Kherson .

The bronze sculpture was named in honor of the 50th anniversary of the October 27, 1967 Great October Socialist Revolution and commemorating the 1920, the during the Russian Civil War the Kakhovka bridgehead battles fought ( Бои на Каховском плацдарме ) of Red - against the White Army , built .

presentation

The monument depicts a Tachanka , a chariot used during the war, drawn by four horses . The coachman is a bent forward Red Army soldier with a Budyonovka on his head, a comrade with a flag in his right hand and sitting on his left another soldier leaning on his rifle. A machine gun is pointed backwards. The artistic value of the bronze sculpture is the realistic transfer of the movement of the vehicle racing through the steppe.

history

The idea of ​​creating such a monument was born back in the mid-1950s. In 1956 a cast iron model was cast and exhibited in the Kachowka Museum, which served as a model for the later monument. As a result of the visit to the museum by the sculptors L. Rodionov ( Л. Родіонов ) and Ju. Lochowinin ( Ю. Лоховінін ) and the architect O. Poltorazkyj ( О. Полторацький ) a project was created with the aim of building a monument.

After the sculptors had made the monument in Leningrad , it was dismantled and the individual parts numbered. The dismantled monument, weighing over 60 tons, was transported on large trucks from Leningrad to Kachowka in July and August 1967 and there by the architect on a specially heaped hill near the former command post of Marshal of the Soviet Union Vasily Blücher , together with a memorial stone to Vasily Blücher , built.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union , the monument also lost popular interest, funding ceased, and it began to rust and deteriorate. In 2006, however, it could be restored with the funds now made available.

Web links

Commons : Legendary Tachanka  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Legendary Tatschanka on ua.igotoworld.com ; accessed on April 1, 2018 (Russian)
  2. ↑ Article on the Legendary Tachanka monument on visitua.info from December 23, 2009; accessed on April 1, 2018 (Ukrainian)

Coordinates: 46 ° 47 ′ 44.5 "  N , 33 ° 31 ′ 7.6"  E