wait but this symbol of victory stands just like a chess piece it was dr of technical sciences nicholai nikitin who made the necessary calculations there were even plans for special needs which would make it possible to easily braised the statue if it then took the designers first calculated the exact center of gravity before setting up cables inside the statue but another issue emerged in the one nine hundred seventy s. during a strong wind the steel sword began to swing wildly it was replaced with a titanium version weighing fourteen tons. engineer alexander turnoff comes to the statue once a week he checks all the cables inside to make sure they aren't overstretched and whether any metal has rusted the rim or the one hundred cables here each twenty meters long they pull together all of the internal parts of the statue. is 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 of course but you could call them the muscles of the arm. there are special sensors on the cables which monitor the tension they send