Kakhovka - The Legendary Tachanka 🏇 03/04/2020
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The legendary tachanka is a monument erected in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution, dedicated to the battles at the Kakhovka bridgehead during the Civil War.
It is located in the city of Kakhovka, Kherson Oblast, Ukraine. The monument is also called the "Tachanka Monument" because the tachanka was widely used by the Red Army's cavalry during the Civil War in the USSR.
The idea for such a monument emerged in the mid-1950s. In 1956, a cast-iron model—the prototype of the future "Legendary Tachanka"—was cast and became an exhibit in the Kakhovka Museum. Later, sculptors L. Rodionov, Yu. Lokhovinin, L. Mikhaylenok, and architect E. Poltoratsky, who visited the town, created the design for the monument.
In July and August 1967, the completed monument, disassembled (in separate, numbered pieces), was transported from Leningrad to Kakhovka on heavy-duty trucks. Weighing over 60 tons, the bronze monument was transported with extreme caution along the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Station overpass. Assembly work began on the already prepared burial mound in the steppe near Kakhovka, next to the memorial sign marking the site of the command post of Marshal of the USSR Vasily Blucher. The monument was unveiled on October 27, 1967.
The team of artists who worked on the monument at the Leningrad Monument-Sculpture plant was awarded the USSR State Prize in 1969.