Experienced mountaineers execute maintenance work on the the 101-meter-high concrete memorial 'The Motherland Calls' on Mamayev Hill, Volgograd. In this way, scaffolding was not needed, and the many thousands of visitors, who flock to Volgograd to see the monument, were not disappointed.

The monument, designed by sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich and engineer Nikolai Nikitin, was dedicated in 1967 to commemorate the Soviet soldiers who died in the battle of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in 1942-43.

Experienced mountaineers execute maintenance work on the the 101-meter-high concrete memorial 'The Motherland Calls' on Mamayev Hill, Volgograd. In this way, scaffolding was not needed, and the many thousands of visitors, who flock to Volgograd to see the monument, were not disappointed. The monument, designed by sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich and engineer Nikolai Nikitin, was dedicated in 1967 to commemorate the Soviet soldiers who died in the battle of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in 1942-43.

Experienced mountaineers execute maintenance work on the the 101-meter-high concrete memorial 'The Motherland Calls' on Mamayev Hill, Volgograd. In this way, scaffolding was not needed, and the many thousands of visitors, who flock to Volgograd to see the monument, were not disappointed. The monument, designed by sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich and engineer Nikolai Nikitin, was dedicated in 1967 to commemorate the Soviet soldiers who died in the battle of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in 1942-43.

Experienced mountaineers execute maintenance work on the the 101-meter-high concrete memorial 'The Motherland Calls' on Mamayev Hill, Volgograd. In this way, scaffolding was not needed, and the many thousands of visitors, who flock to Volgograd to see the monument, were not disappointed. The monument, designed by sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich and engineer Nikolai Nikitin, was dedicated in 1967 to commemorate the Soviet soldiers who died in the battle of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in 1942-43.

Experienced mountaineers execute maintenance work on the the 101-meter-high concrete memorial 'The Motherland Calls' on Mamayev Hill, Volgograd. In this way, scaffolding was not needed, and the many thousands of visitors, who flock to Volgograd to see the monument, were not disappointed. The monument, designed by sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich and engineer Nikolai Nikitin, was dedicated in 1967 to commemorate the Soviet soldiers who died in the battle of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in 1942-43.

Experienced mountaineers execute maintenance work on the the 101-meter-high concrete memorial 'The Motherland Calls' on Mamayev Hill, Volgograd. In this way, scaffolding was not needed, and the many thousands of visitors, who flock to Volgograd to see the monument, were not disappointed. The monument, designed by sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich and engineer Nikolai Nikitin, was dedicated in 1967 to commemorate the Soviet soldiers who died in the battle of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in 1942-43.

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