Memory to Miners of Kuzbass

The monument "Memory to the Miners of Kuzbass" in Kemerovo was created by sculptor Ernst Neizvestny and architects Oleg Razhev and Tahir Kuliev. A bronze figure of a miner, 7 meters high and weighing 5 tons, stands on a pedestal made of black granite, 4.5 meters high. In his right hand, the miner holds a jackhammer, he has a helmet with a lamp on his head, and neon tubes flicker with red light in his open chest. Neizvestny himself called his work the "Miner's Angel" and wished health to those who stood at the origins of the monument's creation.