Sculptural monuments of Astana.

“There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I'm born to leave”

Charlotte Eriksson.

Travel Astana Guide.

The unusual monument «Zher-ana» (Earth-mother) is established in Astana, it is work of Russian sculptor Dashi Namdakova. The monument is established at the Presidential center of culture (nowadays " Nazarbaev center ") by summer of 2008.
The monument represents saks tsarina Tomiris costing on the huge bull. The bull is established on a pedestal. Scope of horns of the ten-meter bull reaches seven meters. The given sculpture jeweller work on the accuracy, has very much greater sizes of the pedestal, the bull, a throne on which there is a woman, this surprising sensation, it is a monument for people.
On a back of the bull the body cloth which is fixed, by cords, plaits, is laid.

Authority:
«The Guidebook across Astana and Akmola province».

Photos
Alexander Petrov.