The monument "Mother Volga" installed at the entrance to the gateway from the Rybinsk reservoir at a distance of about 400 meters. The monument was erected in 1953. The statue is 28 meters. The architect of the monument - Don H., sculptors - Shaposhnikov and Malashkin. The pedestal of granite, and a sculpture made of concrete. The height of the pedestal - 12 meters.

The monument "Mother Volga" is an image of a beautiful Russian woman with a wise and simple person. Around her head lay heavy braids. Her gaze into the distance. Sweeping gesture he meets ships that come from marine expanses. In his left hand at the Volga-mother scroll drawings, at knee level hovers in a free and rapid flight of a seagull.

With the erection of this monument is related an interesting story. In the early 1940s, to perpetuate the memory of people's feat of the Soviet people for the construction of hydroelectric power station and the Rybinsk Rybinsk Reservoir, it was decided to install a monument near the gateway. At this point, it planned to install a monumental composition by Vera Mukhina "Worker and Collective Farm Girl". For now no one even can not imagine that this monument could meet the ships calling at Rybinsk. In 1939 the newspaper "Big Volga" published a sketch of HPP "Worker and Collective Farm."

Monument to be installed before the middle gateway to the round tower site by the Rybinsk Reservoir. But until the Rybinsk hydroelectric installation has not been completed, all construction work on a temporary monument pedestal installed in Moscow near the Exhibition Center. However, upon completion of all construction works on hydroelectric power, it was decided to erect a new monument. It had to be a woman, a symbol of the homeland, with its strength and power, and the male security officer guarding her happiness. But despite this, the result was the incarnation of the monument that we see today. This is the "Mother Volga" is a symbol of the river-nurse, which is embodied in the image of a proud, strong and statuesque Russian woman who never western weaning affairs of men, neither eastern slavery.

It is best to look at the monument "Mother Volga" with water from the ship. It is in a protected area of ​​locks on a sand spit.

Monument included in sightseeing tours of the city.