A statue with a gun will now be off on one of the streets of the Russian capital.
September 16, on the Garden ring in Moscow, a monument to the designer Mikhail Kalashnikov. The monument appeared at the intersection of Sadovaya-Karetnaya and Dolgorukovskaya streets.
Figure Kalashnikov was made by the sculptor Salavat Shcherbakov, who created the monument to Prince Vladimir erected near the Kremlin. The opening ceremony will be held in honor of Day of the gunsmith, September 19. The initiative to erect a monument to the designer by the Russian military-historical society.
The height of the monument amounted to about 8 meters. According to RIA “News”, it should have been put in January 2017 in the Armory lane. Another monument to Kalashnikov installed in 2015 at the tomb of the designer in the Moscow suburb of Mytishchi.
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