The monument to Shevchenko

The monument to the great Kobzar in Kharkiv, erected in 1935, is considered the best embodiment of the image of Shevchenko in monumental art. The height of the figure is 5.5 m, and the monument is 16 m. Poet is depicted in the spirit of socialist realism: a huge figure of fighter surrounded by the same fighters for will, among which there are heroes of Shevchenko's works, and symbolic peasants with workers.