Rebellion Square in Tula is often confused by guests with Lenin Square. There is one in the city, and it's really easy to get confused. Until recently, a monument to the leader of the world proletariat stood on Vosstaniya Square. On May Day and October holidays, columns of people flowed in streams through the streets to this pedestal, turning on the square into a jubilant sea of demonstrators. Things are different now.
Why Uprising Square?
On September 14, 1903, the first demonstration of the workers of the Tula plant took place on this square. People came to this place to defend their interests. Demands were put forward of an economic nature: improvement of working and living conditions, reduction of the working day, increase in wages. But this was only the first step in the struggle for a normal existence.
In memory of this event, Vosstaniya Square appeared in Tula, and an obelisk was erected, which in 1926 replaced the monument to V. I. Lenin. The author is the sculptor Kharlamov, he saw Lenin alive twice, and afterdeath of the leader in 1924 traveled to the capital to continue working on sketches. Experts assure that the resemblance of the monument to the original was very strong.
The country's second monument to Lenin
The pedestal to Lenin on Vosstaniya Square in Tula was cast with money collected by the residents of the city, made by the workers of the Krasny Vyborzhets plant, and was the second monument in the USSR in honor of the leader of the peoples.
The first, of course, were Leningraders who erected a monument to Lenin at the Finland Station. In Moscow, memorials appeared only a few years later, then there will be many of them, in every settlement, in every factory entrance.
Changes in the movement of demonstrators
Tula is a city where changes and improvements take place every year. New neighborhoods are being built, squares and parks are being improved, avenues are being expanded.
In 1983, the construction of a new complex was completed, consisting of the Government House, popularly called the "White House", and a new monument to Lenin - the work of the sculptor M. Zakharov.
The fate of the old monument was decided as follows: it was dismantled from its historical place and moved to the courtyard of the Tula Artillery School. Now it has become easier for guests of the city to navigate the names: there is Lenin Square with a monument to the leader in the center, there is Uprising Square in Tula at the address: Sovetskaya Street, without any monument.
There is a military school, in the courtyard of which there is a beautifulthe work of a talented monumental sculptor of artistic and historical value. I am glad that the people of Tula were able to find an alternative, quite worthy place for the talented work of the sculptor Matvey Yakovlevich Kharlamov.
