Home » Rostov-on-Don » CultureIn Rostov erected a monument to Peter the Great and the symbolic mark.In Don capital have decided to mark the border between Asia and Europe.
in Rostov-on-Don border of Europe and Asia runs through the fairway Don. In this connection, to install a symbolic sign of "borders of Europe and Asia" was proposed by the Green Arrow island. The first sketch proposed as early as the mid 90's, is a transformed compass, which identifies benchmarks of the continent. While summing up the competition for the best memorial sign "City of Rostov-on-Don, Russia - Port of five seas", was presented a draft sketch of the monument to Peter the Great Rostov Sknarina sculptors and Zhukov. Bust of Peter I to install in the area of the river mouth Temernik, which built a new bridge. Here, according to the front of a campaign to Azov in 1696 stayed Petrovskiy fleet. The committee members by name socially significant sites believe that the Railway Station Square and the beginning of the central streets of the city is one of the best places to install the sculpture, but a final verdict has not yet been imposed.
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