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Shoigu opened the sculptural composition “They fought for the Motherland. Unusual places and monuments Where is the monument they fought for their homeland

Today, Russian Defense Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu, together with colleagues from the CIS countries, took part in the opening ceremony of a sculptural composition based on the film "They Fought for the Motherland" on Frunzenskaya Embankment in Moscow.

“We continue our tradition of saving and preserving the memory of the heroes of our Fatherland, those who defended the country in the most difficult years of its history. We would like this tradition to continue, which is why we open this monument in the year of cinema,” said the head of the Russian military department, speaking at the opening ceremony.

The Minister of Defense noted that this sculptural composition is also "a monument to people who immortalized the feat of our soldiers and our country in the cinema."

“The fact that my colleagues are here today, the ministers of defense of the CIS countries, suggests that we have a common history that we must preserve, multiply, and pass on to the next generations,” said Army General Sergei Shoigu.

The head of the military department of Russia expressed the hope that similar monuments to the heroes of the Great Patriotic War will appear throughout the territory of the former USSR.

At the end of the ceremony, Army General Sergei Shoigu thanked the authors and sculptors of the monument, as well as all those who created these images in the cinema.

The sculptural composition "They Fought for the Motherland" based on the film of the same name was installed in front of the building of the Russian Defense Ministry on Frunzenskaya Embankment. The monument is made of bronze and consists of five figures of the film characters walking one after another.

The opening of the monument was attended by the Ministers of Defense of Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, as well as veterans of the Great Patriotic War, Yunarmiya members and relatives of the actors and director of the film "They Fought for the Motherland."

The Minister of Defense of Russia, together with colleagues from the CIS, opened the sculptural composition "They fought for the Motherland"

In 2013, the Ministry of Defense in Moscow got a composition dedicated to the heroes of the film "Officers". The Ministry of Defense decided not to stop there, and on November 30, 2016, in the same place, on Frunzenskaya Embankment, a monument to the heroes of another wonderful film - "They Fought for the Motherland" was solemnly opened.

History repeated itself - the authors of the composition were the same team of the Grekov Military Artists Studio, the opening was attended by the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergei Shoigu, the heads of the defense departments of the CIS, veterans of the Great Patriotic War.

All the main characters of the film are represented on the sculpture: Nikolai Streltsov (played by Vyacheslav Tikhonov), Ivan Zvyagintsev (Sergey Bondarchuk), the "inseparable couple" - Pyotr Lopakhin (Vasily Shukshin) and Alexander Kopytovsky (Georgy Burkov), Nekrasov (Yuri Nikulin). I would add here the foreman Poprishchenko, played by Ivan Lapikov, but the authors did not include him. Maybe not to "overload" the composition, or maybe for other reasons.

"They Fought for the Motherland" was released in 1975. Sholokhov at first denied Bondarchuk the right to film adaptation, but then agreed on the condition that the tape be filmed in places of real battles and in conditions as close as possible to real ones. As a result, from a weak (by the standards of "The Quiet Flows the Don") novel, a great film turned out.

For Vasily Shukshin, the role in the film was the last - he died suddenly during filming. In the remaining scenes, Shukshin's classmate at VGIK, Yuri Solovyov, starred. Shukshin's hero was voiced by actor Igor Efimov, whose voice we know from the voice acting of other famous characters - for example, Inspector Lestrade performed by B. Brondukov in "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson".

By the way...

There is information that the sculpture was originally installed in the Patriot Park, but I did not find confirmation of this.

According to Sergei Shoigu, the sculptural composition is "a monument to the people who immortalized the feat of our soldiers and our country in the cinema." He expressed hope that similar monuments to the heroes of the Great Patriotic War will appear throughout the territory of the former USSR.

The Minister of Defense of Russia during his speech said:

Monument erected on Frunzenskaya embankment

The sculpture, cast in bronze and representing five figures of the film's heroes walking one after another, is installed in front of the facade of the building of the Russian Ministry of Defense on Frunzenskaya Embankment. The ceremony was attended by veterans of the Great Patriotic War, as well as relatives of the actors and the director of the film.

Sergei Shoigu with colleagues at the opening of the sculptural composition

Among the guests was also present, People's Artist of the RSFSR, the director's widow and mother of Fyodor Bondarchuk. In the film "They Fought for the Motherland", the actress played the role of a military doctor; She is also known for her roles as Helen Kuragina in the film "War and Peace", Desdemona in the Soviet film adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy "Othello" and Vasilisa Ilyinichna in the television film "Quiet Don".

Irina Skobtseva as a military doctor in the film "They Fought for the Motherland"

When Sergei Bondarchuk took up the film adaptation of an unfinished novel, the writer at first denied the director this right, but then he nevertheless agreed, setting the only condition: the picture should be filmed in places of real battles - near the Melologovskiy farm in the Volgograd region. At the same time, the shooting was carried out in conditions as close as possible to real ones, using military equipment and explosives. Subsequently, the film "They Fought for the Motherland" won several international awards: the award of the Union of Anti-Fascist Fighters of Czechoslovakia at the XX Film Festival in Karlovy Vary, the award for best director, the award for the best performance of male roles and for the best performance of a secondary female role at the Panama Film Festival, and also State Prize of the RSFSR named after the Vasiliev brothers.

"They fought for their country." Movie trailer
The main roles in the famous film were played by Sergey Bondarchuk,. For many of the film's actors. Bondarchuk himself (in his film he played Ivan Zvyagintsev) was a participant in hostilities - from 1942 to 1946 the director served in the Red Army.

Fragment from the film "They fought for the Motherland"
Yuri Nikulin, who played the role of Private Nekrasov, was drafted into the army immediately after graduating from high school, served in an anti-aircraft battery near Sestroretsk during the Soviet-Finnish war, and fought near Leningrad during the Great Patriotic War. The actor was shell-shocked during an air raid on the northern capital, but immediately after being discharged from the hospital he went to the 72nd separate anti-aircraft division near Kolpino. During the war, Yuri Vladimirovich was awarded the medals "For Courage" (initially he was presented with the Order of Glory III degree), "For the Defense of Leningrad" and "For the Victory over Germany". (the role of Nikiforov) was a tanker and fought on the First Trans-Baikal Front and near Rzhev. The performer of the role of Lieutenant Goloshchekov was born on August 17, 1941 in the catacombs of Odessa, during the bombing. His father died at the front even before the birth of Nicholas, and his mother was hanged in 1942 for refusing to cooperate with the German invaders.

Photo from the filming of the picture from the archive of the magazine "Spark"

Innokenty Smoktunovsky, who got the role of a surgeon in the film, at the beginning of the war he himself worked in a hospital at a military unit stationed in Krasnoyarsk. In January 1943, Innokenty, who was only eighteen years old, was sent to the front as a private. He participated in the battles on the Kursk Bulge, in the crossing of the Dnieper, in the operation to liberate Kyiv. For the fact that, under enemy fire, wade across the Dnieper delivered combat reports to the headquarters of the 75th division, he was awarded the first medal "For Courage". He was captured, spent a month in prison camps, but he managed to escape. So he ended up in a partisan detachment, which then merged with the Guards Rifle Regiment of the 102nd Division. Already in the position of squad leader of a company of submachine gunners, Innokenty Mikhailovich took part in the liberation of Warsaw. He met the victory in the German city of Grevesmühlen.

Innokenty Smoktunovsky played the role of a surgeon

The role of Pyotr Fedorovich Lopakhin in the film "They Fought for the Motherland" was the last for the great Soviet writer, screenwriter, director and actor Vasily Shukshin, who was only 45 years old. He died during filming - on the night of October 2, 1974. Work on the film was suspended, later some scenes with the participation of his hero were filmed in Moscow thanks to the involvement of an understudy - who once studied with Shukshin on the same course at VGIK. Voiced by Lopakhin.