Famous picture taken during Battle of Stalingrad. (now Volgograd). Is the statue still there? I searched for “statue+children+stalingrad” and get alot of results with the pic, but nothing descibing it’s fate.
http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/table_of_malcontents/images/2007/05/23/zjmmkwufid.jpg
It’s called the Barmaley Fountain.
That photo of the fountain is pretty wicked. Kids dancing around an alligator and a bombed out building burning in the background.
Any ways, I did a Google search but all it seems to pull up is similar threads but no definitive answers to: where did it go?
Sorry, I don’t have anything to add other than that is an amazing photograph.
Russian Wikipedia says that it was dismantled in the 1950s, and that in 2007 the city administration was planning to restore it. It also says that there were/are similar fountains in other places, such as Voronezh.
Two replicas were made
Two replicas were installed with public access, one installed in the vicinity of the original site. So the artists work is now on display at the same site… Its like the work has been restored… But its not the original item… They would keep the original item inside to preserve it…
