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Trubnaya ploshchad'
Трубная площадь

Памятник погибшим милиционерам

Monument to the lost militiamen

Anatoliy Bichukov
1994

Moscow - Москва / Памятник погибшим милиционерам

Description

Granite column of 32.5 m high with a bronze statue of St. George on the top. On the base a relief showing a grieving mother, bending over the body of her deceased son, and three emblems of police.

Inscription(s)

благодарная
россия
солдатам
правопорядка
погибшим
при исполнении
служебного
долга

From a Grateful
Russia
to the Warriors
of Law Enforcement
killed
in the line
of duty

Annotation

Inaugurated 11 November 1994. The architect was A.V. Kuz'min - А.В. Кузьмин.

Artist

Anatoliy Andreyevich Bichukov - Анатолий Андреевич Бичуков (1934), Russian sculptor (Wikipedia).

Location (N 55°46'4" - E 37°37'18") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: ru160; Photograph: 13 July 2011
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