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Geologists pioneers monuments in Russia

27.07.201709.04.2020 by Elena

Geologists pioneers monuments in Russia
September 28, 2012 in Irkutsk appeared a sculpture “Geologists.” It decorates the bank of the Angara River in the historical center of Irkutsk. Sculpture, devoted to the hard, but romantic and noble profession of the geologist, is a work of young sculptor from Krasnoyarsk, Yevgenia Druzhina. A native of Irkutsk, she embodied in the metal easily readable images of geologists.
Meanwhile, in the world, as it turns out, there are lots of sculptural images, obelisks, stelae, commemorative signs dedicated to the severe profession of a geologist. However, in Russia, they are few. In particular, in the Siberian and northern territories, such as Surgut, Urengoi, Nefteyugansk, etc.

‘To geologists’. Monument in front of Russian State Geological Prospecting University in Moscow. Sculptor Frid Mkrtichevich Sogoyan. Opened December 11, 2001
The author of the monument is Lenin Prize laureate, Honored Artist of Ukraine and Armenia Frid Mkrtichevich Sogoyan. The prototype for the sculpture was the head of the Department of Mineralogy of the Russian State Geological Prospecting University (GGRU), Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, Professor D.A. Mineev.
Opened December 11, 2001 monument devoted to the 300th anniversary of the establishment of Peter I «The order of miner’s affairs”. The monument is a seven-meter block of pink granite of Emelyanov deposit (Ukraine), on the polished side of which is the bulk figure of a geologist. Established in honor of outstanding achievements in the creation of a powerful geological mineral resource base of the country.