The ''Rear-front'' Memorial (russian: Памятник «Тыл — фронту») is a bronze and granite

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located in the city of

Magnitogorsk Magnitogorsk ( rus, Магнитого́рск, p=məɡnʲɪtɐˈɡorsk, ) is an industrial city in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, located on the eastern side of the extreme southern extent of the Ural Mountains by the Ural River. Its populat ...

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, sculpted by Lev Golovnitsky and drawn by Yakov Belopolsky. It is considered the first part of a

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, also consisting of '' The Motherland Calls'' in

Volgograd Volgograd ( rus, Волгогра́д, a=ru-Volgograd.ogg, p=vəɫɡɐˈɡrat), formerly Tsaritsyn (russian: Цари́цын, Tsarítsyn, label=none; ) (1589–1925), and Stalingrad (russian: Сталингра́д, Stalingrád, label=none; ) ...

and '' Warrior Liberator'' in

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. This monument was unveiled in 1979. By the time of construction of the monument, the creator of the other two monuments, Yevgeny Vuchetich, had already died. The monument is composed of a worker and a warrior. The worker is oriented to the east, towards the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works. The warrior is facing the west, to the side of the "

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". The three monuments are made to symbolize the sword being forged in Magnitogorsk, raised in '' The Motherland Calls'' in

(then ''Stalingrad'') and finally dropped to the ground after the victory in

as a part of '' Warrior Liberator''. The composition also includes a stone flower made from Karelian granite with an

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