The ''Rear-front'' Memorial () 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, on the eastern side of the extreme southern extent of the Ural Mountains by the Ural River. Its population is curre ...

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, sculpted by Lev Golovnitsky and drawn by

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. It is considered the first part of a

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, that tells the story of the «Victory Sword»: the Sword, forged by the metallurgists of Magnitogorsk, was then raised by the

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Stalingrad Volgograd,. geographical renaming, formerly Tsaritsyn. (1589–1925) and Stalingrad. (1925–1961), is the largest city and the administrative centre of Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The city lies on the western bank of the Volga, covering an area o ...

and lowered after the

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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 Yevgeny Viktorovich Vuchetich (Russian: Евгений Викторович Вучетич; –12 April 1974) was a Soviet sculptor and artist. He is known for his heroic monuments, often of allegoric style, including ''The Motherland Calls'', t ...

, 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 Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (), abbreviated as MMK, is an iron and steel company located in the city of Magnitogorsk, Russia. As of 2017, it was the 30th largest steel company in the world. In 2021, the company's revenue amounted to 786 bil ...

. 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 ''The Motherland Calls'' () is a colossal neoclassicism, neoclassicist and socialist realism, socialist realist war memorial sculpture on Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd, Russia. Designed primarily by sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich with assistance fro ...

'' in

Volgograd Volgograd,. formerly Tsaritsyn. (1589–1925) and Stalingrad. (1925–1961), is the largest city and the administrative centre of Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The city lies on the western bank of the Volga, covering an area of , with a population ...

(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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. On May 6, 2022 the Bank of Russia issued a commemorative coin made of base metal with a nominal value of 10 rubles "Magnitogorsk". The series "Cities of labor valor" (Russian: «Города трудовой доблести»).

Gallery

File:Каменный цветок 1.jpg File:Памятник "Тыл - фронту" в Магнитогорске.jpg File:RR5714-0082R 10 рублей сталь 2022 Города трудовой доблести Магнитогорск реверс.png, The coin of the Bank of Russia. 10 rubles (2022)

References

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