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Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky was an outstanding mathematician, educator and educator of the Russian Empire. The authors of the monument to him were the sculptor Maria Lvovna Dillon and the architect N. N. Ignatiev. Monument to Lobachevsky is located in the park at the intersection of Kremlevskaya Street with Lobachevsky Street.
The monument is made in the form of a bust. The plastic solution was traditional for the sculptural portrait of the second half of the 19th century. The prototype of the sculptor was the portrait of Nikolai Lobachevsky, which was at the Kazan University. The sculptor created the image of a scientist in a state of concentration and active work of thought. Lobachevsky's bust is installed on a columnar pedestal made of black granite. The pedestal rests on a two-stage base and is decorated with a protractor, a compass and a laurel branch. Below the inscription: “Mathematician Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky. Mind. 12 / II-1856 in the year 63.
The initiator of the creation of the monument to Lobachevsky was the Kazan Physics and Mathematics Society and its chairman A. V. Vasiliev. He contributed to the publication of NI Lobachevsky's Complete Works on Geometry and promoted his ideas.
3300 rubles were spent on the construction of the monument. The project was financed by the Physics and Mathematics Society. The money came from Russian educational institutions, from the society of the Moscow-Kazan railway, Kazan patrons of art, private individuals and foreign scientific societies (from the Royal Society of London).
The monument to Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky was solemnly opened in Kazan in 1896.
