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Children's parade (Детский Хоровод) - a fountain located in the center of Volgograd (former Stalingrad). History

It was one of several similar fountains built in the 1930s in large cities of the USSR (almost identical in Voronezh). It was set up in a square in front of the railway station, opposite the Red Carycin Museum of Defense. She presented a group of six amused children dancing around a crocodile. The inhabitants were called the Barmalej Fountain (Фонтан Бармалей), from the title of the popular Kornieja Czukowski fable. Replica of the Child Cranium

The fountain was made famous thanks to the photographs of war correspondent Emmanuel Jewzierichin, executed in August 1942, after a great German raid on the city. You can notice the contrast of childless carefree with the surrounding war reality. Damaged building became one of the symbols of the Stalingrad battle.

After the war was restored, but it was dismantled in the 1950s. Returning voices of the need to reproduce the symbol of the city's history, led to its reconstruction and re-launch on August 23, 2013 - exactly on the 71st anniversary of the famous photography. The replica stands in a slightly different place and the children are 20 cm taller and made of resin rather than concrete as in the original.

Another replica of the fountain, more accurately reflecting the prototype, was set in 2013 in front of the preserved ruins of the Gerhard Mill, near the Museum of the Battle of Stalingrad and the House of Pavlov.

You can see the fountain. in the films The Enemy at the Gates, V as vendetta and Stalingrad. Bibliography

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