Monument to the heroic sailors of the Black Sea. «Torpedo boat». Installed in Novorossiysk MOSCOW, 3 Jan. Readers of the British newspaper Daily Mail share their impressions of photographs of Soviet monuments and street monuments, inspired by a book by French photographer Jason Guilbeaux, in which he showed part of the legacy of Soviet architecture using Google Street View.
Plinths topped with submarines and sculptures of fighter planes frozen in flight: Fascinating book showcases the surreal street monuments of a forgotten Soviet empire https://t.co/8ttnQZE905 pic.twitter .com/HqGjtNcrtC
& # 8212; Showbiz (@showbiznotices) December 16, 2021 Most users were delighted not only by the appearance of the monuments, but also by the fact that they were preserved after so many years. that people still have respect for what the Western world has already forgotten, «wrote Dyslexic1.» They are all well-groomed and are still highly valued by Russians who honor their history, «said Just a passenger.» Russians know how to build monuments! «, — concluded Howard the 1st. 
A monument to the author of the recipe for Vologda butter was unveiled near VologdaSome commentators noticed that in Great Britain such structures instantly become the target of vandals. a reader under the nickname Johny Eng1ander said that he would like to see more of such monuments in his country. «I always prefer objects of industrial or military heritage to modern» art, «he stressed. The book contains photographs of monuments from Vorkuta, Primorsk, Shelekhov, Novorossiysk , as well as from the cities of the Krasnodar Territory and the Volgograd Region. The Motherland Calls Monument was opened on October 15, 1967 in Volgograd after 8 years of construction. At the time of its creation, the sculpture was the tallest statue in the world.