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Mourning Angel

Тольятти, Italy

Mourning Angel

Mourning Angel is a public monument in the Russian city of Tolyatti. It is a memorial to victims of political repression. Niyaz Azizovich Yalymov, head of the Tolyatti organization Victims of Political Repression proposed in 1999 that such a memorial be constructed. In 2000 a design competition was

held. Of five finalists, the entry of Igor Burmistenko was accepted. The statue was installed on the Veteran's Mall of Tolyatti Central Park and was opened on October 30 (the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions), 2005. The bronze figure was not yet ready, so a temporary plaster version was installed for the opening, then removed. The bronze statue was installed in April 2006. Total cost for creation of the monument was 8 million rubles, shared by the regional and city governments. The sculptor, Igor Burmistenko, a member of the Union of Artists of the Russian Federation (and before that of the USSR Union of Artists) died five years into the project, and the statue was finished by the project architect I. N. Prokopenko and cast in bronze by V. A. Fomin. The memorial complex is a square with granite panels around the perimeter. At one side is the bronze figure of the...

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