Monument «Regulator Maria» Matveev Kurgan

Matveev-Kurgan district is rich in monuments to soldiers who defended our Motherland.The Mius Front was here during the Great Patriotic War (1941-1943) and its significance is equal to the Battle of Stalingrad. The fighting was going on day and night. At the road fork of Rostov-Donetsk and Matveev Kurgan — Bolshaya Krepkaya there was a massive movement of military vehicle and it was regulated by a fragile young regulatory girl Maria. The legend about the brave girl has survived and is preserved in the memory of the countrymen: «The monument to the» Regulator «is dedicated to the regulators of the 28th Army of Lieutenant-General Gerasimenko who took an active part in the battles for the liberation of this area in 1943. The monument was erected on the place where the young girl (according to local residents no one knew the regulator directing our troops) stood for two days, she was very tired and hungry but didn’t leave her post until she lost consciousness from exhaustion and overwork. The figure of a slender girl in a tunic, two and a half meters high, is set on a concrete foundation whose height reaches one and a half meters. The gesture of the girl means — «I allow to move…»There are only two such monuments in the world. (The second one is installed in Germany.) The monument has been opened on the eve of May 9, 1973, the sculptor is Perfilov V.I. Description of the monument: the base of the monument is made of brick height of 1.5 m on which stands a sculpture of the regulator with a height of 2.5 m. «

Monument «Regulator Maria» Matveev Kurgan