Monuments to outstanding scientists of the Russian Federation

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Monuments to outstanding
scientists of the Russian
Federation
The creators of the presentation
are:
Alexandra Morozova
and Daniil Khamitsevich
Our teacher (the leader of the team) is Alexey
Yuryevich Garkin. We are the students of the 11В
grade of the Municipal State-Funded Educational
Institution – Lermontov School № 1
We have chosen this topic because we want to show
the historical value of architectural monuments to Russian scientists installed
in different parts of the world,
which is expressed in the unity of people of the modern era with those who played th
e main, defining, and sometimes decisive role in the development of science and history as a whole.

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Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov was a Russian polymath, scientist and writer,
who made important contributions to literature, education, and science.
Among his discoveries were the atmosphere of Venus nd the law of conservation of mass in chemical reactions.
His spheres of science were natural science, chemistry, physics,
mineralogy, history, art, philology, ptical devices and others. Lomonosov was also
a poet and influenced the formation of the modern Russian literary language
The monument to Lomonosov was unveiled in Marburg, Germany on
October 26, 2012, where he studied chemistry, mechanics, hydraulics and
physics. The monument depicts Mikhail Lomonosov in his youth. The
figure is cast in bronze, its height is about two meters, Lomonosov holds in
his left hand a smaller copy of the building of the Moscow University
The monument to Mikhail Lomonosov was erected on January
25, 2002 in Kharkiv, Ukraine, in front of the city Children's Palace
of Culture.
This sculpture was made by Alexander Tabatchikov

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Nikolay Ivanovich Pirogov was a Russian scientist, medical doctor, pedagogue, public figure, and corresponding
member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1847), one of the most widely recognized Russian physicians. He
is considered to be the founder of field surgery, he was the first surgeon to use anaesthesia in a field operation
(1847) and one of the first surgeons in Europe to use ether as an anaesthetic. He is credited with invention of
various kinds of surgical operations and developing his own technique of using plaster casts to treat fractured
bones
The monument to the famous scientist and surgeon, who studied
and became a professor in Tartu, Estonia, was erected in 1952.
Authors of monument are Y. Raudsepp, M. Melder, P. Tarvas, A. Volberg.
The monument Vinnytsia, Ukraine, is located in a picturesque square,
at the beginning of the street of the same name. It was erected in 1967, in
honor of the 100th anniversary of the National Red Cross Association.
The authors of the project are sculptors L. Sabaneeva and N. Deregus.
The four-meter granite monument is a tribute to the legendary personality
of thegreat surgeon, his professionalism and fearlessness in the face
of obstacles and difficulties.

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Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev was a Russian chemist and inventor. He formulated the Periodic Law and creating a
periodic table of elements. He used the Periodic Law not only to correct the then-accepted properties of some
known elements, such as the valence and atomic weight of uranium, but also to predict the properties of eight
elements that were yet to be discovered
The monument was erected in Kiev, Ukraine, in 1995 in honor of the 160th
anniversary of the outstanding chemist and the 100th anniversary of the
Kiev Polytechnic Institute. It is near the chemical building of the KPI. It is known
that Mendeleev stood at the origins of the Kiev Polytechnic and was the
chairman of the first State Examination Commission in 1903
In Ukraine, near the the main entrance to the Donetsk
Botanical Garden there is a monument to Dmitry Mendeleev.
This monument is a sign of gratitude of the Donetsk people to the
great chemist, who was one of the first to evaluate the natural
resources of the Donbass and initiated their further research. There is
a quote of the great scientist on the pedestal, in which he says:
"The question of planting
forests in the southern steppes belongs to the state tasks..."

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Alexander Stepanovich Popov was a Russian physicist, who was one of the first
persons to invent a radio receiving device
The monument in Kotka, Finland. It is placed near the site of the installation
of a radio mast for communication with the battleship "Admiral Apraksin",
which ran aground in the autumn of 1899 off the coast of the island of Gogland.
For the organization of rescue operations, communication with the battleship was
necessary, and the laying of an underwater cable was very expensive at that time.
It was decided to use Popov's wireless telegraph. A 60-foot radio mast was installed,
and on February 6, 1900, Gogland replied to Kotka. Information was received that
it was necessary to deliver for rescue, and by the spring the battleship was removed from
the shoal
And this monument is installed
on the territory of Communications in Ukraine.
The sculptor is Solovyov V. P., the architect is Musarov V. V.

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Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov was a Soviet and Russian nuclear physicist, dissident, Nobel laureate, and activist
for disarmament, peace and human rights. He became renowned as the designer of the Soviet Union's RDS-37,
a codename for Soviet development of thermonuclear weapons
The monument to Academician Andrei Sakharov was erected in
2002 at the Russian House communication agency on Connecticut Avenue,
in Washington DC, The USA The sculptor is P. Shapiro.
Sakharov's bust in Yerevan, Armenia. The sculptor is
Tigran Arzumanyan, the architect is Levon Galukyan,
and the engraver is Nerses Charkhchyan

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Sergei Pavlovich Korolev was a lead Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer during the
Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s. He is regarded
by many as the father of practical astronautics. He was involved in the development of the R-7
Rocket, Sputnik 1, launching Laika, Belka and Strelka and the first human being, Yuri Gagarin, into
space
The monument was officially opened on January 18, 2006 in Kiev, Ukraine on
the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his birth. In 1924-1926, S. P. Korolev was
a student of the Kiev Polytechnic Institute. The monument was built according
to the project of the Honored artist, sculptor Nikolay Oleynik. The height of the monument with
a bronze bust is 2.5 meters. It is installed on the Museum Square of the National Technical
University of KPI. The bust of the rocket scientist is mounted on a two-meter pedestal made
of brown marble. The inscription on the stone pedestal says: "To the founder of practical
cosmonautics, the designer of the first artificial Earth satellites and spacecraft, a student of the
KPI 1924-1926 of the Kiev Polytechnic University. Sergei Pavlovich Korolev". And the direct speech
of the scientist: "Cosmonautics has a limitless future, and its prospects are incomprehensible,
like the Universe itself."
The monument to the scientist is installed on the territory
of Kazakhstan, on Baikonur, on Korolev Square. The author of the
sculpture is A. P. Faidysh-Krandievsky and architects are M. O. Barsch,
A. N. Kolchin.

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Sources of information:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Lomonosov
http://museum.lomic.ru/
https://rutraveller.ru/place/61965
http://monuments.top/pamyatnik-n-i-pirogovu-v-dnepre/
https://kon-tour.ru/news/finland-news/3243/
http://in-korolev.ru/novosti/obschestvo/korolyov-pamyatv-skulpture
http://monuments.top/pamyatnik-a-s-popovu-v-dnepre/