Monuments of Syktyvkar - history of the city

Syktyvkar is a city inhabited mainly by Russians and Komi people. Both in terms of area and number of inhabitants it is considerable, it enters the first hundred cities of Russia in population, which is gradually growing and is approaching 250 thousand people. This is a record value since its formation. Сыктывкара и другие достопримечательности расскажут туристу о его истории, о великих людях, связанных с этим городом, о жизни современных сыктывкарцев. Monuments of Syktyvkar and other attractions will tell the tourist about its history, about the great people associated with this city, about the life of modern Syktyvkar people.

Before about the name of the city. Unaware of the language of the Komi, it can not tell anything. сделать перевод, сразу поймут: город у реки Сысолы. Those who are able to make a translation, immediately understand: the city at the river Sysoly. The first settlement was named Ust-Sysola. In 1930, on the day of the 150th anniversary of granting him city status to Catherine the Great, he was officially renamed Syktyvkar (Syktyv - Sysola, car city). Everything is simple and beautiful.

Memorial "Eternal Glory"

хочется с тех, к которым горожане приходят в дни радости или памяти. Start your short story about the monuments Syktyvkar wants from those to which the townspeople come in days of joy or memory. They are not forgotten and are always revered by both local residents and visitors. A lot of them. Among them are the Monument of Labor Glory, the Monument "The Sorrowful Warrior", the Memorial "Eternal Glory".

There is a memorable place in the center, from where the draftees went to the front during the Patriotic War. The city military registration and enlistment office, a wooden one-story house, was a place of gathering, farewell and grief. The building was demolished, the military commissariat moved, and people did not want to forget the place from where each fighter who had gone to defend them began the hero's way.

величественная и одновременно трогательная композиция, посвященная памяти воинов-сыктывкарцев. On the site of the old building stands one of the main monuments of Syktyvkar - a majestic and simultaneously touching composition dedicated to the memory of Syktyvkar warriors. Mother, wife and daughter accompany their loved one. The authors, the sculptor Yu. G. Borisov and the architect A. D. Rakin, together with the creative group, managed to convey all their grief and despair, from which the arms and shoulders drop. But women in Russia have always been endowed with power and dignity. Mother with her head held high stretches a cedar branch to the cup with eternal fire - everything that her son has now to offer: fame, memory and love.

Here it is noisy and festive, when residents, marking memorable dates, come with flowers and flags. Usually in the city center, near the memorial, it is quiet and cozy. The elderly people rest on the benches, the youth appoint rendezvous here.

Monuments to famous people

They remember and immortalize in Syktyvkar the names of people whose life left a trace in the life of the entire people of the country, the Komi people in particular.

расскажут о Куратове Иване Алексеевиче, который стал основоположником национальной литературы коми, о Каликовой Домне Федоровне, бесстрашной партизанке времен Гражданской войны, о христианском просветителе края Коми Стефане Пермском, о вожде революции Владимире Ильиче Ленине. Monuments of the city of Syktyvkar will tell about Kuratov Ivan Alekseevich who became the founder of the national literature of the Komi, about Kalikova Domna Fedorovna, the fearless partisan of the Civil War, the Christian enlightener of the Komi Republic Stefan Perm, the leader of the revolution, Vladimir Ilich Lenin.

Lenin monument

Near this monument the Syktyvkar people always tell the guests that in 1924, after the death of the leader, their city was almost named as Vladimirolinen, but they limited themselves to erecting the monument.

In this place there was always a city square. Previously, it was called Stefanovsky, after the Christian enlightener of the Komi people. Almost on the site of the demolished cathedral a monument to Vladimir Ilyich was built in full growth. He looked out across the river. On the square there was always a building of city and regional authorities.

A new monument to Lenin in Syktyvkar, in the center of the transformed square, was erected for the 50th anniversary of the revolution. The work of sculptor Kerbel LE and architect Datyuk VK makes a huge impression.

The monument, made of beige granite, embodies the power, reliability and stability of the Soviet government. A granite, mighty pedestal, next to which you feel small and insignificant, towers over the square. From it grows the figure of Lenin, who rests his back on the banner. This is really a monument to the RIVER!

Funny monuments

, на которые нельзя смотреть без улыбки. There are monuments in Syktyvkar that can not be looked at without a smile. At the airport building a young man in national clothes drives a bird. Near the building "Comenergo" sits on the bench a bronze electrician, for some reason with a bare chest. But it's quite unexpected to see the stone letter "O" from the Center of National Culture with two points on top. The sound of this letter is often used in the national language of the Komi peoples.

To visit all the city monuments, one day is not enough. Just expanse for curious tourists!