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Monument to the first settlers

Penza, Penzenskaya Oblast, Russia
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About Monument to the first settlers

All that remains of the citadel which marked the delivery of the city of Penza are its mounds and a memorial-historic complicated became opened right here in 1980. The predominant characteristic is the First Settler Monument which depicts a settler in ancient Russian get dressed standing next to a stallion. The base of the monument functions an inscription quoting the primary written mention of Penza: “In the year 1663, it changed into ordered to build a metropolis at the River Penza”. The viewing platform on which the settler stands opens up to views of the metropolis and the River Sura.

Also a part of the complex is a canon and a reconstruction of a tower. Monument to the primary settlers in Penza. The town became founded in 1663 as a castle on the southeastern outskirts of Russian country. Monument is a kind of usually three-dimensional structure that became explicitly created to commemorate someone or occasion, or which has grow to be relevant to a social organization as part of their remembrance of historic instances or cultural history, due to its artistic, historic, political, technical or architectural importance.

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