miner monument

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the memory of the miners of kuzbass is a monument in the city of kemerovo, russian federation, dedicated to the dead miners. the sculpture of ernst neizvestny was opened in 2003 on the territory of the krasnaya gorka museum-reserve on the top of a hill overlooking the city and the tom river. the administration of the kemerovo region gave the monument the status of an architectural and historical symbol of the region the idea of ​​embodying the greatness and heroism of the miners' labor in stone was born in kuzbass in the middle of the 20th century. in 1969, the council of ministers of the rsfsr decided to create a monument "miner's glory" in kemerovo, but during the years of socialism it remained on paper [3]. ernst neizvestny took up the idea of ​​a monument to the dead miners at the request of aman tuleev, the long-term leader of the region. as the sculptor himself said, the artistic idea of ​​the monument came to him instantly, after the words of the governor that "in every burning light bulb there is a drop of the miner's blood"