Monument "Obelisk of Glory" in Maksatikha
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Monument "Obelisk of Glory" is located below the village Maksatikha. The decision to build the monument was made in 1978. In 1979 he received permission to design a monument in honor of the memory of the fallen soldiers in Maksatikha.

Draft of decorative and monumental composition was developed to November 30, 1979 by the architect Valentin Nenarokovym and sculptor Valery Nikiforov.

The project is a memorial composition adjoining the Fraternal Cemetery, located at the entrance to Maksatikha from Tver on the fork in the road. All construction work was completed by August 9, 1979. Then the memorial complex has not yet been planted, there was no avenue to the Fraternal Cemetery, electric lighting, not yet installed marble slabs with the names of fallen soldiers knocked.

The architectural dominant of the majestic panorama of decorative and monumental composition in honor of those who died in the war fronts residents Maksatikha Obelisk is wedge-shaped, which is directed upward, with traces of shell fragments. Crane wing serves as a symbol of eternal fire. The depth is a sculptural group, leaving the front maksatihintsy soldiers and grieving woman and mother.

"Obelisk of Glory" in Maksatikha is a holy place where the venerated memory of fellow countrymen. This monument is a monument to the greatest courage, vow to remember the victims compatriots, the symbol of freedom and the will to descendants. Maksatihintsev 10 thousand went to the front. Back returned only 4, 5 thousand people.

The monument was inaugurated on October 24, 1980. Every year on the territory of the memorial complex on May 9 held a rally in honor of the Victory Day.

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