suffered against one channel. that's coming up to commemorate those who gave their lives to save got future generations waymark victory day in russia without special force they must learn. she stands fifty two meters tall with a sword eighty five she weighs eight thousand tons and is six meters tall of the most famous symbol of the united states. the guinness book of records named it as the tallest sculpture in the world at the time of construction. russia's symbol of victory the motherland coles sits on the hills of my my after a gun in volgograd. the city sold one of the bloodiest battles of the second world war. during the war it was known as the starving grad the first day of the battle in july nine hundred forty two alone so forty families and people killed more than two

million soviet soldiers or residents of stunning grabbed on a kid in the course of nearly seven months another million and a half were killed on the german side the remains of hundreds of thousands of shells and bombs can still be found to this day. this is she was ruined that was then when i first thought about how to restore ever think that had been laid to waste. valentino was a construction worker her family moved to the city right after the second world war she witnessed not only the restoration of stalingrad from the ruins but also the competition to create the best monument stalin had ordered the memory of the conflict to be immortalized on the my of cargo that was put in charge. we considered two projects we also thought about building in wonderment only segarra sixty fourth the soviet union defended the site but it was far from the city center

the second project was a gun that we decided to build here because the entire city could descend from the top. sculptors from all over the country submitted their projects to participate in the contest stalin eventually chose yevgeny for a church known for his works of socialist realisable that symbolized heroism at that time he'd already created the soviet ruling live he was later responsible for a statue a bronze call that a speech solar's into plowshares which can be found outside the united nations and . with my my of the artist was faced with a difficult task he had to come up with a symbol representing a call for victory because stomping ground was a major turning point during. the search for his means again. the question of who inspired the work is a very interesting one they were lots of theories some thought it was a waitress fell into me or jim that's new. but in fact give me would cheer teach

was fast inspired by nike off some of the trace the first version of the statue was half the final size about twenty five meters there were plans to build a messiah cool under the morning meant it but then the weight of the statue doubled while the foundation had been made with a mission that planned lote so they decided to add one hundred fifty thousand more tons of earth. for the most part. is a huge cemetery as a result of the construction the mass graves ended up buried under eight meters of earth. village two hundred fifty kilometers from volgograd alexander sunico left his home here in one nine hundred forty one never to come back. one day alexander was given an old man a lift. still that he would die at the age of twenty. alexander

lived but his mother sank deep into. that. when alexander volunteered for the front he left his mother three sisters and the younger brother behind from the age of nine alexander became the man of the house people used to say that even if alexander was hungry and self he would find food first for the others today only his sister survives a younger brother died before he could find the final resting place of their deceased brother alexander's nephew continued the search. during the war alexander was a tank of the fighting nearly five hundred kilometers from stalingrad all the way to my ass could go he was seriously injured the soldier had a choice either to go to hospital will stop the enemy advance he chose the latter. alexander died from his wounds two days before the end of the battle in street

fighting is stunning grant's room which now serves as a reminder of the shoulders of even now the remains of hundreds of thousands of soviet soldiers and missing thirty three search teams scour the area to finally lay them to rest somewhere they're going to for the best find was a letter that a soldier wrote to his fiance before his death but he did not have time to send this note it was written in verse we read it to the end outloud. seventy years have passed but bullet casings unexploded mines and shell fragments continued to be honest in one instance the remains of forty soldiers were found in a single day the average life expectancy of a soldier upon arriving in stalingrad was twenty four hours few managed to survive almost all two hundred days like alexander surreal because. according to the law we bury those found within the city by. those without

a name to rest. in accordance with russian law those found in other regions of. alexander's relatives searched intensely for his grave. they failed to find his remains in the place indicated on the death notice and only seventy years later they discover that he had been exuding together with the remains of many other soldiers. they had been moved to a mass grave situated on the eastern slope of the foot of the mother man calls monument. people working at the memorial helps a few find where the soldier had been buried. a card index system keeps all the information about the. here's your uncle's card aleksandr. so aleksei you can see that your uncle is not

only engraved forever on the wall of the memorial complex but also in the battle of stalingrad museum archives. it turned out that the final resting place of the young soldier was found here on the hill but he defended to the end. well hello how examine the. thirty four thousand five hundred and five people are buried at the foot of the motherland calls another eleven thousand people are in a small a mass grave elsewhere on the hill. who wanted to immortalize the names of the to see soldiers lists came in from moscow from that information seven thousand two hundred names have been engraved in them i have heard guns hold of military glory

however the full story of nine hundred of the fall and has not yet been revealed the only information they have is a surname and initials a special team at the memorial complex investigates the soldiers origins even today there are people who off to seeing their family name on the wall trying to find at least some details about their deceased relatives. the only god stands watch over the whole of military glory only those meeting specific requirements can make it into this regiment soldiers must be told of slavic appearance and fully versed in old drill techniques. the architectural scale of the memorial project match the scope of the battle of stalingrad a fitting memorial was needed for the lost lives in one nine hundred forty two the commander of the sixty second dummy the silly to recall was the architect advisor he was immortalized by. the sculptor human to fight to the death. it takes two hundred steps from the foot of the mayans could go on to reach its top one for each

day of the battle stopping. in the square of sorrow stands a sculpture of a grieving mother. these walls are built from the ruins of stomping ground depicting soldier it's as well as the slogan not a single step back. it took several lives to find the image for the central monument. or did you buy that was in the the motherland calls as a different meaning this is not the statue of liberty of course which implies freedom for the american people are statue is full of energy moral and military spirit the motherland calls is unique there is no such other statue in the world that's the way back when yes. it's possible the sculptor's final design was inspired by the figures on paris's on the trail for the figure of nike that he saw on display in the movie. this statue of a woman with

a sword in hand and the fia spirit was approved as a symbol of the motherland of the highest level. knew first hand the horrors of. he served as a machine gun and before being wounded and returning to moscow in one nine hundred forty three. when the political for the will go on the also had a tremor in his hand to imagine that he was a sculptor now because he worked toward. the only when he was sculpting was he calm and could work fast and professionally you know he was always doing something for human sculpting working with clay just so he could feel the way he did before the injury to anya i don't put my father told me that he'd always been modeling something but with you that's why he always had a potty matches and was with him that he was always busy that's going to buy a little bit no matter if he was ill or feel. whether it was night or day it was sculpting maybe just needed to do it to feel alive in the minds of. the grand

memorial to the heroes of the battle of stalingrad opened on october the fifteenth nine hundred sixty seven. all the party leaders of the soviet union together with the only brush never arrived soon after the opening ceremony of the monument to chanted started work on a new one hundred metre tall motherland statue to be delivered to keep. the sculptor possible way before the project was realized. wealthy british style.

markets why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max conjure for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to kaiser report on our. world for the. science technology innovation called the least of melons from around russia we've got the future covered.

if. brighton. soon from finest impressionists. who threw stones on team. food. during the construction of the motherland calls its low and its up a plots were connected by an elevator fortunately it broke down this meant.

would have to walk up and down two hundred steps to inspect his money. only the personnel looking after the moment. a year after the unveiling of the statue the issue of who was going to maintain this huge construction arose for the first time in the soviet union a team of mountain climbers was employed to look after the monument. this one's will go on the trail. the red ropes are for descents white ones or for safety risking their lives climbers regularly check the condition of the motherland calls monument which deteriorated following the collapse of the soviet union nowadays specialists keep an eye on the joints regularly so that the limbs remain

firm periodic lee a special water repellent coating is applied to the statue but the solution does not come cheap mountain climbers examine small mosques covering the statue in most cases they're just making a record there are more than a thousand of them here. now we're at a place of particular concern destruction is already visible here. this piece has bled off very easily. this is a serious defect the concrete broke away from the outer surface because water got into the cracks. seeing as there was clay inside the crack began to grow squeezed against a chunk of concrete this needs fixing immediately otherwise the process of destruction will continue. only the most professional climbers are

allowed to work on the monument. it's particularly important that they have extensive experience in mountaineering in uneven terrain. the whole of volgograd can be seen from the top of the motherland calls. working on the motherland because it's like a hobby to me so this work is not for money. i spent my whole lifetime here. and we've worked many times as there's a lot to do here i'm a native of volgograd and i'm proud of having such a monument in our city. we try to keep it in good condition when we preserve it for future generations you're pretty awful. if it is a war veteran one of the few builders of the monument to a still alive when construction began there was not even any grass. in its place where about twelve hundred fifty deadly metal fragments per square

meter the motherland coals was built upon earth soaked with the blood of the soldiers. was there in this place. the workers could change their clothes and here we had our office and over there were. those who cast the molds for the statue lived in them. for a. cost of before. inside the statue erected internal politicians. numerous trucks brought in concrete from. what could be wrong at the trucks with concrete were arriving day and night this was the first concrete monument in the world there were no such other sculptures made of reinforced concrete anywhere else all our sculptures are made of concrete such monuments hadn't existed before we were the first to build them. when

constructing such a huge monument the designers and builders could not foresee old possible issues. isn't reliable here. being a builder i am greatly concerned about it we have to deal with this issue urgently i want the statute to stay as it is now. is supported only by. this symbol of victory stamps just like a chess piece it was dr of technical sciences nikitin who made the necessary calculations there were even plans for special needs to make it possible to easily raise the statue to fit. the design is first calculated the exact center of gravity before setting up cables inside the statue but another issue it merged in the one nine hundred seventy s. during a strong wind the steel sword began to swing. it was replaced with

a titanium version weighing fourteen tons. engineer. comes to the statue once a week he checks all the cables inside to make sure. that any metal has rusted the rim more than one hundred cables here each twenty meters long they pull together all of the internal parts of the statue. more than we did there for example we can see the ropes that pull together the right forearm and the elbow of the arm which holds the sword. you could call them the muscles of the arm. there are special sensors on the cables which monitor the tension they send this information to a micro processing unit installed further up. in the heart of the monument here all the monitoring machinery is installed previously to examine the construction and communicate with the employees this device used to help one could talk to any

person no matter where they were in the sauder in the leg but only one person had to dial the number to ask the person situated inside saudi how was he doing what was the situation like. currently there's no such thing. today all this cumbersome equipment has been replaced with an ordinary laptop. and this kind of micro processing device. one of the main tasks of the statue supervisors is to watch for any deviations and when necessary take the correct action. since the one nine hundred eighty s. we've been observing the foundation stabilisation we conduct g.-o. d. sic. at the top the way the head is bent is approaching the critical point. we're watching the situation closely

constant monitoring the new calculations are all quiet. this is my favorite part of the head. this is where the monitoring ends. and the panorama of the city begins. the institute of physical education is situated close by models for the statue was selected from here in the one nine hundred fifty s. and came to you again studio in this factory to pose the working day of a model here for hours. at the. shops. that was fifty years ago a very long time. to try to replace. don't realize what kind of project she was participating in she was simply curious. as i

remember reading a rule in there i turned. it was supposed to be a sword dilettante. thereafter. going you and there was some kind of a big fund there to make the fabric flutter. wasn't invited to the opening ceremony she recognized the familiar features later when she saw the monument for herself yet at the us i was looking at her and wanted to see. it seemed to me that the position. tried similar to mine. i wanted to believe i look like her. is the woman who became the face of the motherland or is it just a result of the stutters imagination. the some. trying to answer this question he

spent six years writing a manuscript about his famous father but he died without having published his. grandson is now the keeper of the manuscript. for which appears from the money script. from a very beautiful woman the woman was a classic example of the legend. of course in the motherland cools you can see similarities with the famous nike of some of the trace. the original is kept in the loop for the record so what my grandfather saw her and she might have served as a fine example of a great statue for him but of course this female figure is a generalization if you look at the statue and his wife vera you know well to me they look a lot of it is because the study because. it's clear that there are similarities

when a picture of the sculptor's wife is placed side by side of the statue. was a man of few words he expressed what he wanted to say with his hands that's why specialists and relatives are not surprised that the word devoted to the most significant period in his life was modeled on his wife. which is your scope of one's future to just said he had so many ideas that he would need a dozen life at all events to realize them each tell him no but and i know that's really the case that he dreamed of new projects because he wanted people to remember him as an artist when body to heroism because of those people. history has shown that the artist succeeded in as endeavor every year nearly two million people come to the foot of the monument symbolizing russia's triumph in the second world war.

the top stories on all see dmitri medvedev president just special commission to investigate the disappearance of a brand new russian supports the project one hundred in indonesia they have coffee halls of sales demonstrations lines with pictures of passengers on board on a plane to come to close last wednesday morning. also a spectacular display of fire what it says enjoyed in moscow a victory today marking russia's defeat of nazi germany and the great war and the celebrations included of one parade in red switzerland and the second half but six to seven. trains as prime minister yulia timoshenko moved from prison to oppose the health care treatment has been on hunger strike clinton days claiming interest but it means nothing. to stop mox and banks kaiser and states had to take a look at the latest announcements by cheaping morgan's chief jamie diamond and tosk is that hey stephen you.