To Extend Our Memories By Monuments

1. To Extend Our Memories By Monuments iEARN Project Places and Perspectives Learning Circle - 2015

2. To Extend Our Memories By Monuments • Created by 8B Class Form, “Petru Movila” Lyceum, Chisinau, Moldova • Sponsoring teacher Elena Bogoeva • Contributions from countries: teachers: Korolyov, Russia Margarita Astakhova Tambov, Russia Svetlana Budanseva Kumertau, Bashkortostan Aigul Gazizova Starie Dorogy, Belarus Natasha Belozorovich Lahore, Pakistan Tarig Mehwood Truşeni, Moldova Victoria Craciun

3. Project Goals • To make a research of a city monuments of different types; • To realize the importance/ significance of monuments by giving answers to the questions: 1) Are there any archaeological, architectural, historic, material, military-engineering, hydro-engineering, transport, ethnographic, documentary monuments, monuments of art and of urban development in your city/town?2) Are there any famous people connected with places of your town?3) Which monuments in your city/ town are the oldest, most important, the most beautiful, the most unusual?4) Do you ever hold events at Monuments?5) What are the latest places of interest/monuments appeared in your city/town?6) If you had a chance, the monument to whom/to what would you erect?

4. We all have memories. We also share inwider collective memories of our shared history. In shaping and giving focus to thesecollective memories, monuments play a prominent part. They bring history alive to new generations and memories tothose who experience them firsthand. Monumentscreate a bridge between generations. Monumentsare reminders sometimes of what we did wrong. Monuments enrich the spiritual life of society, awaken the best human feelings, contribute to the formation of patriotic feelings.

5. Archaeological monuments (“artifacts”) carry a certain amount of information about the past. “Stone footprint” – an ancient monument from Starye Dorogi, Belarus. The pebbled tools of the Soanian culture, Pakistan

6. Works of Ancient Architecture are real treasures. Mazarachi Church is one of the oldest in Chisinau. It is an architectural masterpiece in stone, the construction of which dates back to 1752. The Church of the Assumption is the oldest Moldovan wooden church founded in 1642

7. The Badshahi Mosque is the second largest mosque in Pakistan and the fifth largest mosque in the world. It is Lahore's most iconic and famous landmark. The church in Truşeni, Moldova, has resisted many attempts over time.

8. Ledovnya, the 2nd half of the XX century. (Starye Dorogi, Belarus) The Chisinau Water Tower built in 1892 is an architectural monument of Chisinau.

9. Memorial complexes preserve the memory of the heart of the immortality of great ideas for which millions of human lives are given. Memorial Complex “Eternitate”,Chisinau,Moldova. It honours the soldiers who died in the liberation battles in Moldova during the Great Patriotic War.

10. The names of soldiers who died during the Great Patriotic War and in the performance of military duty are carved on the marble slabs of the monument in the city of Korolyov, Russia. The Bab-e-Pakistan monument in Lahore honors the thousands of Muslim families who chose to migrate to the newly-created state of Pakistan in 1947.

11. The monument "Tambov Peasant" is the oldest monument in Tambov, Russia. It was installed in 1949 and dedicated to the residents of the city who raised funds for a tank column in the Great Patriotic War. The monument of Military and Labor Glory in Kumertau, Bashkortostan, Russia, is dedicated to the soldiers and workers of the Great Patriotic War.

12. These historic fighter planes have become literal parts of history. A Kamov KA-26 helicopter in Kumertau, Bashkortostan, Russia Stela dedicated “To the builders of winged machines”, Kumertau, Bashkortostan, Russia

13. These incredible machines remind us of battles won and lost. Four-round hybrid launcher module installed in Lahore, Pakistan. Tank 606 installed in Starye Dorogi, Belarus, in 1945.

14. Monuments reflect the real progress of society and the people, as well as humanity as a whole. The Memorial Locomotive (2004) can be found at the Chisinau Railway Station as a sign of the extensionofMoldova railway network started in 1865. The monument is erected to the first tractor in Moldova produced in 1962 by the Chisinau Tractor Plant .

15. Monuments are places hallmarks, their outstanding features A very beautiful “Woman with Bread” in Starye Dorogi personifies Belarus. The Monument to Tambov wolf.

16. The monument is dedicated to the first citizens of Kumertau (Bashkortostan, Russia), coal miners and builders. The Rocket at the entrance of Korolyov, Russia.

17. Historic Monuments are closely related to the changes in political systems, reflect historical processes. The Monument to Stephen the Great (in Chisinau)who strengthened Moldavia and maintained its independence in XV century. He was victorious in 46 of his 48 battles. The Triumphal Archbuilt in 1840 commemorates the victory of the RussianEmpire over the Ottoman Empire during the Russo-Turkish War (1828-29).

18. The monument to Gregory Kotovsky, the communist hero of the civil war in Russia, installed in Chisinau, Moldova. The bust of Shagit Khudaiberdin, an outstanding statesman of Bashkortostan (Kumertau, 1954). The Monument to Vladimir Lenin in Tambov, Russia

19. Monuments of art commemorate significant events and important persons. The monument to the famous Russian pianist, composer S. V. Rachmaninov in Tambov, Russia. The A.S. Pushkin monument established in 1885 is the oldest monument in Chisinau.

20. The monument to S. Korolyov, the leadingSoviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer, established in the city of Korolyov, Russia, in 2006. The monument to G. Derzhavin, a Russian poet, a nobleman, and also the Governor of Tambov in 1786-1788.

21. The bust of Mazhit Gafuri, a Bashkir writer and poet of 1880-1934 established in Kumertau (Russia) in 1955. A memorial complex dedicated to M. Tsvetaeva, the greatest Russian poet (Korolyov, Russia, 1992).

22. A unique collection of icons of 18-20 centuries and paintings in a memorial museum of S.Durylin, a writer, a theologian and literature critic, in Korolyov, Russia. The monument to great Moldovan poets M. Eminescu, G. Vieru, A. Paulescu in Truşeni, Moldova.

23. A monument is a reminder sometimes of what we did wrong, or something traumatic we have experience as a people. A monument with the symbolic name "Train of sorrow“ is installed in front of the main railway station in Chisinau in memory of the victims of Stalinist mass deportations (2013).

24. Monuments as response to the worries and questions of ongoing processes. A memorial to the Victims of AIDC consisting of 5300 metal nuts with 1756 screws which is the number of people who died from AIDC in Moldova. The Fountain of Lights in Starye Dorogi, Belarus.

25. The most impressive monument to "The Eternal Student“ inTambov,Russia. A student raises his handand shows five fingers –five for theexam. If a student rubshis hand, it is sure to belucky , and he will receive five at the exam. The most unusual monument in Kumertau is dedicated the first car used by the police in Russia.

26. A very unusual monument to the smallest coin of “1 Ban” is installedin Chisinau, Moldova.The installation is believed tobecome notonly an art object but a money mascot of the city. The most unusual monument in the city of Tambov, Russia, is ”The Elk Family”.

27. If I had a chance, I would erect a monument to ...... • Family Kumertau, Russia • Mother Chisinau, Moldova Tambov, Russia • Music Starye Dorogi, Belarus • Heroes of Labour Korolyov, Russia