Monument Lazarus Globe
Monument Lazarus Globe can be found in one of the central parks of Dnepropetrovsk . Square is located 1.5 kilometers from the train station on the avenue of Karl Marx. He was named in honor of the famous Cossack Lazar Globa, a monument which was erected in 1972. Unusual sculptures appeared in the park for the 200th anniversary of Dnipropetrovsk . Although the Cossack, as well as the park at this place existed here long before the city.
Outstanding Cossack Lazar Globa
In the late 1690s in a village in the province of Kiev birthplace of Cossack captain and Zaporizhia Cossack Lazar Globa. At the age of 50 years, he gets on the future site of Dnepropetrovsk. In love with the beauty and the rolling hills of the Dnieper shore, he decides to settle down in front of the current Monastery island . There Globa begins to build a garden ( a modern fleet of Shevchenko ). Beautiful multilevel park still keeps the memory of its alleys endeavors Cossack. In 1750, he creates a second garden is not inferior to the first, on flat terrain ( park named Lazarus Globa ). A few years later, Prince Grigory Potemkin, one of the founders of Ekaterinoslav, buys, both the garden from the Cossack, around which over the years, begins the construction of the city.
Interesting facts
Settled on the banks of the Dnieper, Lazarus Globa was idle Cossack. Having lived more than 100 years old, he left no known heir stories. During his life entirely on their own, he created two huge by the standards of the 18th century garden that are alive to this day and remains in excellent condition. In 1793, he was buried on the territory of his garden, and a monument on the tomb appeared only after 180 years.
Unusual sculpture
The sponsors smoking and sworn decided to create a unique sculpture in its intricacy, which is not like the rest of the monuments of the Soviet era. Globa Lazarus depicted in the traditional Cossack dress, busy usual thing for myself - planting trees. Interesting composition liking all citizens who are willing to make a walk in the garden, left over after the regiment of Captain Globa.
