The monument to Yanka Kupala in Minsk was erected in 1972 in the park named after him. Yanka Kupala on the 90th anniversary of the birth of the national poet. On a massive granite pedestal stands a full-length figure of Yanka Kupala with a cane in his hand. There is a spring and a fern flower at the foot. The first monument to Yanka Kupala in Minsk was erected on June 23, 1949 in the Central Square and was a bust of the poet on a granite pedestal. In 1972, in the park named after A new monument to Yanka Kupala was erected, and the bust was moved to the poet's homeland in Vyazinka, where it is still located. Do not pass by...

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Александр Олегович Румянцев

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The monument embodies the personality of Ivan Dominikovich Lutsevich (real name Yanka Kupala) as a Poet-fighter [playwright and publicist, winner of numerous prestigious literary prizes] in the city park bearing his name in the very center of Minsk on the right bank of the Svisloch River, and this pleases. One should not be too surprised at the scale of the sculpture, because in the Soviet years it was a common phenomenon. Information for the most attentive - "At the bottom, at the very base of the monument, a fern flower is depicted - a symbol of eternity, inextinguishable creativity and purity."

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