From this list we will immediately exclude the monument that stands in St. Petersburg at the Institute of Experimental Medicine. The memory of those dogs on which experiments were conducted by physiologist Ivan Pavlov is immortalized here.
Paying tribute to domestic science, man's best friends, trusting him, were victims without realizing it. So this monument can be called a monument to an unnamed dog, a victim of medical experiments. If we talk about very specific dog-heroes and those obelisks that perpetuated their memory, then it’s better in order.
Saint Bernard Barry- a very real character of the early 19th century. The only people who don’t know that they experience exceptional love for a person are those who know nothing at all about dogs. Barry was doing his usual difficult job in this distant century: saving people in the mountains. Snow drifts in the Alps have always carried away thousands human lives. Barry tried his best to correct this sad statistic. 40 lives saved is a serious result, for which it is worth erecting a monument.
But everything in this story turned out to be even more tragic: while rescuing another person buried in the snow, the legendary Barry was seriously wounded: a Napoleonic soldier mistook him for a wolf... Then treatment, an honorable pension, and eight decades later - in 1989 - a monument to Barry was erected in Paris. And it’s very touching: a girl sits on a St. Bernard, and he, at full speed, carries her away from a dangerous place.
Skye Terrier Bobby- a symbol of devotion. This monument was erected in Scotland, in one of the cemeteries. And this is a very sad story about a dog’s devotion to its owner.
The young shaggy Skye terrier Bobby could not bear the death of his owner. And for 14 (!) years he came and spent the night at his grave. At first they chased the dog, then they understood and even gave him a special protective collar. The year Bobby died, impressionable Scots chipped in and erected a monument to him.
Guide-dog– this is already from the monuments of the second half of the 20th century. This profession itself was in demand by time and the exceptional qualities of dogs. What can we say: even in Russia they finally recognized that these trained animals are capable of helping people with disabilities- blind, because they cannot, due to various reasons, caregivers and nurses.
Unfortunately, I’m not sure that it’s the same monument in the photo :(
These are the dogs - different breeds- after special training will help a blind person carefully go down the stairs, cross the street, without tripping over obstacles... It’s a pity, but these dogs don’t live very long, because they waste their nerves and strength trying to save their owners from danger. The Germans were the first to appreciate this dedication and thirty years ago they erected a monument to guide dogs at the Berlin Zoo.
There is also a monument in Sydney to the dog Donna; she is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the longest-living guide dog. She served faithfully to her master John Hogan. Sculptor Ian Shaw.
Collie named Shep- from the same opera as the devoted Bobby. As expected, Shep helped his shepherd owner in protecting the sheep, although not in Scotland, but in the USA. One day the owner died and his body was sent by train...
The dog accompanied the owner throughout this mournful procedure, and then every day at a certain hour he ran to the station, meeting the trains. And so for six long years... The local railway workers could not help but note this devotion of the collie. And they built a monument to the dog on the hillside.
Was born dog Hachiko in November 1923 in Japanese city Akita. Shortly after his birth, he was presented to Professor Hidesaburo Ueno.
In May 1925, the professor died of a heart attack. It was already a year and a half then. And he continued to wait for his master... Every day he came to Shibuya station, as before, and waited for the professor until dusk.
Balto accomplished a real feat. In the town of Nome, Alaska (1925), a diphtheria epidemic broke out, threatening to claim the lives of many people. The life-saving serum had to be delivered from the nearest city of Nenana, which is 600 miles (slightly more than 1000 kilometers) from Nome.
In the most difficult conditions of a prolonged snowstorm, the precious cargo was delivered by several dog sleds in a relay race of five days (instead of nine according to forecasts). At the last stage of the journey, the team of 13 dogs was led by a leader, all of Alaska knew him. The exhausted and frozen musher could not control the team. Balto himself chose the right path and brought the team to Nome.
In the lobby of the Mendeleevskaya metro station there is a monument to a stray dog. The bronze dog, which lies on a pedestal, scratching its ear with its hind paw, is intended to remind people that in this world they are responsible for all living beings, and especially for those who are weaker and dependent on them. The appearance of the bronze mongrel was preceded by a sensational story: in the passage of the Mendeleevskaya station, the dog Boy, who lived there, near the metro station, was brutally killed.
Monument to mongrels - “Sympathy”
Passengers knew him well and loved him, and he was looked after by subway workers. According to eyewitnesses to the incident, a young girl, fashion model Yulia Romanova, was walking along the passage with her Staffordshire terrier. Seeing the sleeping Boy, she suddenly tried to set her pet on the tramp, and then took out a knife and stabbed the dog six times in the chest, back and groin area. The boy could not be saved. The examination found Romanova insane.
On the Southern Highway in Tolyatti, a monument to a dog named Verny, who waited for his owners in one place for seven years, was unveiled. The dog's owners died in a car accident. The dog was practically not injured in the accident and from then on was constantly near the scene of the accident for seven years until his death.
The bronze sculpture, one and a half meters high, is installed on a granite pedestal in such a way that it appears to those driving along the Southern Highway as if the dog is turning its head after the cars.
Italian worker Carlo Siriane once picked up a small black and white puppy. The grown dog became the favorite of the whole family, and he accompanied his owner every day in the morning and met him at the bus stop in the evening. So they called him Fido, which means “faithful.” But one day after the bombing (December 30, 1943), the familiar bus was gone for a long time: (14 years, every evening Fido came to the stop and waited.
The monument was opened in December 1957 in the city of Borgo San Lorenzo. For this celebration, the widow of Carlo Soriane brought faithful dog, who was awarded a gold medal knocked out in his honor. Two years later the dog was gone. But there was a monument with a short inscription on the pedestal: “Fido. A model of devotion."
Of course, these are not all the monuments erected in honor of dogs, I hope there will be another selection soon... If someone expresses a desire to add to it, send it! I will be happy to publish it!
Urban legends of Izhevsk.
Monument to the dog - cosmonaut Zvezdochka in Izhevsk.
The last dog cosmonaut in the USSR, named Zvezdochka, landed on March 25, 1961 in the Votkinsk region of Udmurtia. She got into the first space squad the same way as all the other dogs - from the street. At first, Zvezdochka was given the nickname Luck. Her space call sign was changed right before the launch: Gagarin and his comrades came up with a new name for her: “We cosmonauts are superstitious people. What if it’s a failure?” And Luck was renamed Zvezdochka. After her landing it was accepted final decision about the first man's flight into space. The asterisk was on board the fifth spacecraft-satellite, Vostok ZKA No. 2, launched into low-Earth orbit on March 25, 1961. On the same day, the device landed in the Votkinsk region of Udmurtia. Izhevsk pilot Lev Karlovich Okkelman found him. The pilot clearly remembered a small, affectionate mongrel with black ears in a special vest, entangled in various sensors and wires... The dog was taken toIzhevsk airport, where she lived for some time until she was taken to Moscow.
In memory of this event, on March 25, 2006, a monument to the dog cosmonaut Zvezdochka was unveiled in the park on Molodezhnaya Street near post office No. 72. Now the area of the old airport is built up with residential buildings. It is symbolic that it was here that the monument created by Izhevsk sculptor Pavel Medvedev was erected. It is an open descent apparatus, from the hatch of which a mongrel dog peeks out. On a cast iron surface - a lot useful information, transmitted both conventionally and in Braille for the blind. Here is the date of the flight, the names from the so-called “Zvezdochka list” - the names of all those who participated in the creation, launch of the device and ongoing research, members of the government supervising space, the first cosmonauts, members of the search party looking for Zvezdochka, and the names of ten other dogs astronauts. It was they who prepared the flight of Yuri Gagarin.
The idea of the monument belongs to Izhevsk television journalist, candidate of physical and mathematical sciences Sergei Pakhomov. Together with the schoolchildren, he launched a test balloon - he sculpted an apparatus and a dog out of snow. The children really wanted to see a monument to the cosmonaut dog in their residential neighborhood, and they collected from their pocket money 300 rubles. With this modest amount they sculpted a plaster dog, making a metal-like coating. This figurine now stands in the National Museum of Local Lore at the exhibition “Izhevsk - Open Space”. The journalist infected the sculptor with his idea, and he short time created a model of the monument, which was cast in cast iron in Tchaikovsky.
Where are the monuments to astronaut dogs located?
MONUMENT TO THE DOG LIKEwhich became the first living creature to travel into space, established in MOSCOW on Petrovsko-Razumovskaya Alley near the Dynamo stadium on 04/11/2008 on the eve of Cosmonautics Day.
Veterans of the institute who directly participated in the experiment to send Laika into space laid flowers at the monument.
The monument was planned to be erected in November 2007 in honor of the 50th anniversary of the flight, but due to bureaucratic difficulties the opening of the monument was postponed.
The Sputnik 2 spacecraft was launched into orbit on November 3, 1957. Laika died a few hours after launch from overheating and stress.
This is not the first monument to the famous Laika: she is depicted in the sculptural group of the monument to the Conquerors of Space (VVC).
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Her name is also listed on the memorial table with the names of fallen cosmonauts, installed in November 1997 in Star City.
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On March 25, 2006, the opening ceremony of the monument to the legendary space.
47 years ago, on board the Fifth Satellite, she flew into space, paving the way, literally and figuratively, for man to enter space. This was the last experiment within the framework of the flight preparation program of Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin.
The dog successfully withstood all the loads and landed in a capsule on the border of the Perm region and Udmurtia.
The authors of the monument are physicist Sergei Pakhomov and sculptor Pavel Medvedev. The dog is depicted in life size.
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It is an open descent apparatus, from the hatch of which a mongrel dog peeks out. On the cast iron surface there is a lot of useful information, transmitted both in the usual way and in Braille for the blind. Here is the date of the flight, the names from the so-called “Zvezdochka list” - the names of all those who participated in the creation, launch of the device and ongoing research, members of the government supervising space, the first cosmonauts, members of the search party looking for Zvezdochka, and the nicknames of the 10 other astronaut dogs. It was they who prepared the flight of Yuri Gagarin.
Dogs have served man faithfully for many centuries. People, in turn, as a sign of gratitude, erected monuments to their four-legged friends, which stood in the city center, pleasing the eyes of passers-by. It's nice to know that in the lives of dogs there is a place for feat and heroism. We must not forget about all the merits of the shaggy people, and therefore now we will plunge into history, when this or that monument was erected and what caused its creation.
Many historians believe that the very first monument in honor of a dog was erected in the 4th century. BC. near the city of Corinth. According to one legend, a dog named Soëtre woke up the entire city with his loud barking when enemies were silently approaching him. The enemies were defeated, and Soetre was awarded a silver collar with the inscription “Defender and Savior of Corinth” and a monument was erected.
The most famous monument was erected in Paris, on the Seine River, dedicated to St. Bernard Barry. The inscription reads: "Barry, who saved forty people and was killed forty first." There is a legend that Barry, who served in one of the Alpine monasteries, saved people from avalanches. Barry had only forty saved lives to his credit. When St. Bernard went in search again, he found a frozen traveler under the snow mass. Trying to warm him up, Barry began to lick the man's face. He, arriving in shock and in an eclipse of reason, mistook the dog for a wolf and killed it.
But there is another point of view. This forty-first person was a child who got lost in the forest and lost consciousness. But Barry found him, warmed him up, tried to take him to the monastery, but the child was too weak to walk. Then he wrapped his arms around the dog's neck and climbed onto its back. Barry brought the baby safely to the monastery, where he received necessary help. Saint Bernard lived 12 years and died.
Another monument is dedicated to the equally famous sled dog named Balto. The event took place in 1925, when in the cold town of Nome, almost remote from communication with outside world, a diphtheria epidemic broke out. A team of dogs led by leader Balto successfully delivered anti-diphtheria serum, which saved the lives of many children. We are most familiar with Balto from the wonderful cartoon and the famous story about the dog hero. In memory of Balto's canine feat, two monuments were erected, one of which is located in Nome itself, and the other in New York (in Central Park).
There is an unusual monument in Nesvizh Park. A greyhound sits on a stone and carefully looks into the distance. The most interesting thing is that there are no inscriptions on the stone slab, only the date - 1896. Perhaps we will never know for what merits such a memorial was erected for this dog. They say that the dog was the favorite of a rich man and the owner, experiencing the loss of his faithful four-legged friend, decided to at least somehow perpetuate her memory. Looking at this building, you only think about how, it turns out, people know how to appreciate and be grateful for what dogs do for them. And the monument in Nesvizh is not the only proof of this.
Dogs know how to forgive, but not forget. In Japan, one farmer decided to give a puppy to Professor Hidesaburo Ueno, who worked at the University of Tokyo. The professor gave the puppy the nickname Hachiko (Faithful). The dog fully lived up to his name. Every day at the same time the dog went to the bus stop to meet his owner. But one day he didn't come. A man died of a heart attack at the university, but you can’t explain it to a dog, you can’t tell it. And Verny would not understand or would not want to believe it. For several years until the end of his life, he came to the bus stop every day and waited. He was waiting for his beloved owner to run up to him, hug him, scratch him behind the ear and stroke his tummy. But no one ran up, no one called him by name in that familiar and painfully familiar voice. Verny died in 1935. After his death, the city residents raised money and erected a monument, on which he also sits patiently and waits for the owner.
There are many monuments dedicated to dogs who spent their entire lives waiting for their dead owners. This is a monument at Shabuya station near Tokyo, in Edinburgh to the Sky Terrier Bobby, in the USA, on the river. Missouri - to the dog Shep, in Krakow - to faithful Jack and many others.
In the Duckstein mountains (Austria), an unexpected snow avalanche overtook 11 schoolchildren and two teachers. Together with the group of rescuers, a specially trained shepherd dog, Ajax, worked for 96 hours in a row, with short breaks. The dog tore apart the compressed snow with its paws until it was exhausted. Rescuers carried Ajax to a hut, where she was warmed and brought back to consciousness. After a short rest, the dog went back to work. With frostbitten, bloody paws, Ajax continued to tear through the snow, helping rescuers find injured children and adults.
A shepherd named Leo is considered the most famous dog in Holland. She worked honestly at the Amsterdam airport for 9 years. With Leo's help, customs officers arrested more than 300 people transporting drugs in umbrellas, suitcases, wristwatch etc. From the luggage, she helped confiscate a total of three tons of hashish, a ton of marijuana, 28 kilograms of heroin and 18 kilograms of cocaine. As a reward, Leo was given a state pension and received a well-deserved rest in a hotel for elderly dogs.
In South Africa (Cape Town), in the Central Square of Cape Town, on a small pedestal made of a piece of rock, there is a monument to a Great Dane cast in bronze. His paws have a sailor's cap and a collar. The sign says: “Sailor of the first article Great Dane “Just Nuisance, 1937-1944.” The dog was a favorite of sailors serving at the Simon Town Naval Base for many years.
There is a monument to the dog Fram, which belonged to the famous polar explorer Georgy Sedov. During his heroic attempt to reach the North Pole, the scientist fell ill with scurvy and died on February 20, 1914. The companions buried their captain and moved on. But Fram did not go with them. He lay down on the owner’s grave, and no persuasion, no attempts to take him away had any effect. The dog remained lying on Sedov’s grave and died on it.
A monument to the cosmonaut dog, a husky named Zvezdochka, was unveiled in Izhevsk. The star is famous for the fact that it was after its flight, which took place on March 25, 1961, that it was decided to send a man into space for the first time.
During the experiment, the husky rose to an altitude of about 250 kilometers, spent two hours in orbit and returned safely to Earth. A monument to her was erected on the site where the runway of the Izhevsk airfield used to be and where the capsule with her landed 45 years ago.
In Tolyatti for seven years German Shepherd, whose owners died in a car accident, was waiting for them on the side of the road. After the death of a devoted dog, people erected a monument to her, which they dedicated to fidelity. According to city residents, in 1995, a young couple died in a car accident on the Southern Highway of Tolyatti. There was a dog in the car with her, which miraculously survived. Since the day of the tragedy, she, apparently hoping that the owners would return, has been waiting for them by the side of the road all year round in any weather. Faithful, as Tolyatti residents called him, compassionate townspeople tried to take him home, but he returned to his post every time. Several times they built him a hut right next to the road, but he ignored the amenities, getting wet in the rain and freezing in the wind for seven whole years. Probably, when he was dying, he still hoped to see people close to him. After the death of the dog, the townspeople immediately placed a sign near the road with the inscription: “To the dog who taught us love and devotion.” Two years after the death of the dog, a bronze pedestal appeared at the intersection with only two words written: “Monument of Devotion.” 250 thousand rubles were spent on the one and a half meter monument to Verny, which were collected by the entire city. The statue of a dog mounted on a granite pedestal was made by Ulyanovsk sculptor Oleg Klyuev in such a way that those driving along the road seem to see the dog turning its head after the passing cars, as if still hoping to see its dead owners. The most difficult thing, according to Klyuev, was to convey the character of a faithful dog. According to the author of the sculpture, “everything I tried to embody in my work is boundless devotion.”
Monument to Bim from the book of the Voronezh writer Gavriil Nikolaevich Troepolsky “White Bim” black ear"was installed in Voronezh at the beginning of 1998. The dog sits right on the sidewalk and waits for its owner.
An unusual monument to the dog, the heroine of I. S. Turgenev’s story “Mumu,” was recently erected in St. Petersburg. The figures are cast from cast iron. The sculptural composition with Gerasim’s boots and a mongrel with a sad look is located at the entrance to the Mumu club-cafe on Turgenev Square.
"A dog is man's friend!" - this catchphrase from a Soviet film has been relevant for many millennia. Since ancient times, it has been dogs who have selflessly and faithfully served humans, so people erect monuments to them in gratitude.
Today, similar sculptures are installed in different countries all over the world. - also a very common phenomenon. They are installed in honor of dogs with special services to humans and society.
Let's consider the most famous of them, which always evoke tenderness and deep respect in the audience for man's most faithful and reliable friends.
Monument to the rescue dog Barry in France Sculptures vary in the way they are executed. In addition, they are made from various types materials - bronze and other types of metals. But at the same time, the idea of erecting each monument is based on admiration four-legged friends and human gratitude to them.
For example, in Monument to St. Bernard Barry erected in Paris, who saved several dozen people from snowdrifts in the Alpine mountains. In gratitude for this feat, this sculpture was installed in 1989.
There is a monument to guide dogs in Berlin blind people. These dogs are specially trained to help people with disabilities move freely around the city, cross the road and find their way home. For this purpose, dogs with a calm character are specially selected, who listen to commands and obediently carry them out.
Monument to a guide dog in Berlin In Alaska, in the town of Nome, there is also a monument to the dog Balto, erected in honor of the leader of the dog sled, who, during the deadly diphtheria epidemic that broke out in this area in 1925, delivered the necessary supplies to the sick medications, and thereby saved the lives of many village residents. And although this was quite a difficult task, because the nearest locality was at a distance of more than a thousand kilometers, the dogs coped with it and provided invaluable assistance to people.
In Russia there is also a monument to a dog, installed on the territory of the Institute of Experimental Medicine near St. Petersburg. However, this monument was not erected in honor of any specific dog, but as a general monument to all dogs who serve science. After all, it is on dogs that scientists test the effect of many drugs before using them to treat people.
Monument to a nameless dog in St. Petersburg Dogs have come to the aid of humans for centuries in many areas of life. For example, in the far north, cargo is still transported by dog sleds, because only they can successfully cope with this task in difficult-to-reach areas where there is practically no way for other types of transport.
In the Italian city of Borgo San Lorenzo, a monument was erected to a dog named Fido., who every evening for 14 years went to meet his owner at the train, although he had been dead for a long time. People erected a monument to this dog as an example of unparalleled devotion to its owner.
Monument to the dog Fido in the city of Borgo San Lorenzo A There is a monument to a dog in the Scottish city of Edinburgh., which, after the death of the owner, continued to live on his grave for five years, and died there. All these cases indicate the extreme loyalty of man's four-legged friends, who continue to remain attached to people even after their death.
There is another modest monument at the Lychakiv cemetery in Lviv. And although it is very old, rough and green with age, you can still see the image of a man on the tombstone, and on both sides lie his two dogs.
Locals This touching story, more like a beautiful legend, is passed on from mouth to mouth. Once the owner of two dogs died, they continued to go to his grave every day, until one day they were found dead, lying on the grave of their deceased owner. Subsequently, caring people erected a common monument to this trio, and now the stone dogs continue to protect the peace of their owner in the next world.
