PYATIGORSK, October 3 Russia's first musical sculpture of composer Sergei Rachmaninov will appear in Kislovodsk in the Stavropol Territory, the press service of the city administration reports.
As follows from the message, in Kislovodsk, within the framework of the Russian state program «Development of the North Caucasian Federal District» for the period until 2025, the reconstruction of the children's music school N1 named after S.V. Rachmaninov, located on Pobedy Avenue.
«»The cost of the work will be 371 million rubles. The reconstruction project provides for the production of a sculptural composition of the famous Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff. The monument will depict a musician sitting at the piano. This will be the first sculpture of Sergei Rachmaninoff in Russia in such a performance with musical accompaniment,» the press service said.
As the mayor of the city, Evgeny Moiseev, whose words are quoted in the press service, added, the composer’s sculpture will be made “of bronze, covered with a patina of brown-red flowers” and “will become a real decoration of our main street avenue.”