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Life of wonderful monuments: Sholokhovskaya "The fate of man" in Uryupinsk

Life of wonderful monuments: Sholokhovskaya «The fate of man» in Uryupinsk
Voennoye Obozreniye continues the "Life of Remarkable Monuments" column.

In the first issue, recall, a small story was presented about a monument in the Udmurt Sarapul - a monument, dedicated to the sending of grain by peasants to the starving residents of Moscow and Petrograd during the formation of Soviet power.

In a new plot - the city of Uryupinsk, whose name is known, probably, every resident of our country (and not only ours). For those, who has been to this wonderful town, located in the Volgograd region, perhaps, the most famous and memorable was the monument to the goat - a visiting card of the edge of knitted products from down. However, in the capital of the Russian province (namely, such a poster meets those driving up to Uryupinsk) there is a monument, which is much less common on presentation cards. And this monument is distinguished by a special sincerity..

Life of wonderful monuments: Sholokhovskaya «The fate of man» in Uryupinsk

This is a sculptural composition, dedicated to the heroes of Mikhail Sholokhov's story "The Fate of a Man". A monument was erected in the year of the 60th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, and its authorship belongs to the sculptor S.P. Kalchenko.

The sculptural composition is placed symbolically – near the building of the City Council of Veterans.

Life of wonderful monuments: Sholokhovskaya «The fate of man» in Uryupinsk

The characters of the sculptural group are recognizable, including the wonderful film adaptation 1959 of the year. We are talking about the directorial debut of Sergei Bondarchuk – the film "The Fate of Man", which can be attributed to the real classics of the embodiment in the cinema of literary works about the war and about, how she skated through human destinies.

Bench. A man is sitting on it - the driver Andrey Sokolov. Next - barefoot Vanya, that very, lost his parents boy, to whom Sokolov after the war decides to inform, that he is his father.

Life of wonderful monuments: Sholokhovskaya «The fate of man» in Uryupinsk

Touching sculptures made without monumentalism, with warmth and simplicity.

Why is the monument to the heroes of Mikhail Sholokhov's story installed in Uryupinsk??

It's simple - in a literary work it is in this city that the main character gets a job, and it is in Uryupinsk (then - Stalingrad region) meets an orphan boy.

It is worth noting, what in 1959 the film "The Fate of a Man" by the magazine "Soviet Screen" was recognized as the best film of the year. Sergei Bondarchuk's film won awards at prestigious film festivals in Moscow, Karlovy Vary, Melbourne, Georgetown et al.

Life of wonderful monuments: Sholokhovskaya «The fate of man» in Uryupinsk

That case, when a monument can be worthy of an award.

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