Ukrainian Motherland Monument
Colossal stainless-steel woman with sword and trident shield, towering over a Second World War museum.
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This guide to the Motherland Monument in Kyiv starts with a gap between the plan on paper and the steel woman standing over the Dnipro, and the two very different explanations the city tells for it. It moves between Soviet engineers, the ancient Pechersk Lavra monastery next door, and the summer of twenty twenty-three, when steeplejacks climbed to her shield during a war. Best heard from the terrace at her feet, where you can see both her and the Lavra bell tower.
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