In Yekaterinburg there is a unique monument to a computer keyboard. Keyboard monument: the material from which the monument is made

The keyboard was created in 2005 as a special project of the Long Stories of Yekaterinburg festival, designed by Anatoly Vyatkin. The producers and curators of the project were Nailya Allahverdiyeva and Arseniy Sergeev, who at that time represented cultural agency"ArtPolitics". The project was produced under technical support"Atomstroykompleks" company. Despite the high popularity among citizens and guests of the city, the project has not acquired the official status of a monument or attraction. In fact, not recognized by local authorities as a culturally significant object, the keyboard nevertheless entered many unofficial guides across Yekaterinburg. In the spring of 2011, drawing on the pavement of the Red Line began with it, passing through 32 main attractions of the city center.

Design features

The monument is a copy of a concrete keyboard on a scale of 30:1. It consists of 104 keys made of concrete weighing from 100 to 500 kg, arranged in a QWERTY / JZUKEN layout. The keys are located in recesses with an interval of 15 cm. The total area of ​​the project is 16 × 4 m. computer keyboard.

Cultural features and assessments

The concrete "Keyboard" can be viewed both as a fetish of the computer era and as an industrial "rock garden", a large-scale, environmental experiment that forms a new communication environment on the territory of the Yekaterinburg city embankment. Each button of the concrete keyboard is at the same time an impromptu bench. The monument has become a cultural landmark of the modern image of the city and a new "brand".

A positive resonance regarding the project is observed among all segments of the city's population. Monitoring the reaction of passers-by on the embankment showed that in 80% of cases the reaction of passers-by is enthusiastic, in other cases it is interested. Residents of the city are proud of the implementation similar project on the territory of the city, in which they are primarily attracted by the non-standard incarnation and the modernity of the image.

In February 2019, the Yandex company published statistics on Russian search queries related to museums, attractions and exhibitions. In the ranking of monuments, the monument to the keyboard was in 2nd place: it was only ahead of the Bronze Horseman in St. Petersburg, the third was the monument to Minin and Pozharsky on Red Square in Moscow.

Object security issues

Until June 2011, several keys were stolen from the monument (keys F1 , F2 , F3 , Y), and the Apple logo was applied to the ⊞ Win key.

In this regard, in June 2011, the head of the public art program of the Perm Museum contemporary art PERMM Nailya Allahverdieva proposed to move the keyboard monument to neighboring Perm. According to her, no one cared about him in Yekaterinburg, and perm museum was very interested in this art object.

But thanks to the efforts of the Yekaterinburg initiative group, which included Evgeny Zorin, Lidia Karelina, director of Litek LLC Nadezhda Zaostrovnykh, on August 17, 2011, the lost keys were restored. The repair of the monument was made possible thanks to Anton Borisenko, director of the Union Trucks company, which sells and maintains trucks. During restoration work the author of the monument Anatoly Vyatkin was present.

According to the project coordinator, Nadezhda Zaostrovnykh, thanks to the repair, the famous Yekaterinburg landmark will definitely not go to Perm now. “But the problem remains, I would like the largest keyboard in the world to be included in the register of monuments, protected by the state and no one could ever take it from us. To do this, we have drawn up a collective appeal to enter the monument to the keyboard in the register cultural property, On July 30, 2011, on the Day of the system administrator, more than 100 signatures were collected and on August 4, 2011 they transferred everything to the city administration. We are still waiting for an answer,” said Nadezhda Zaostrovnykh.

With the filing of Yevgeny Zorin and like-minded people, regular cultural events began to be held at the monument, the main of which is the so-called annual “Subbotnik on the Keyboard”. During the "subbotnik", keys are cleaned and painted, and championships are held in throwing non-working computer mice to a distance, lifting a bunch of hard drives, etc. In 2017, two volunteers from the USA took part in the painting procedure. Also on the last Friday of July at the keyboard, SysAdmin Day is officially held with similar competitions.

public access around the clock Status built (restored August 17, 2011) opening date October 5, 2005 materials concrete Length 16 (52 ft) Width 4 (13 ft) Under jurisdiction Russia Design Anatoly Vyatkin Construction Pavel "Stringer" Plaksin, Stas Yakubovsky, Evgeny "Master" Lukyanov, Konstantin Bashchenko, Max Filenkov, Vitaly "Ris" Bukharov, Nikolai Knyazev, Oleg Shabalin, Anton Khudyakov, Gleb Schipachev, Igor "Cook" Kononov, Ivan Kryukov

Keyboard monument- the first land art sculpture in Yekaterinburg dedicated to a computer keyboard. Opened October 5, 2005. Author - Anatoly Vyatkin.

History of creation

The keyboard was created in 2005 as a special project of the Long Stories of Yekaterinburg festival, designed by Anatoly Vyatkin. The producers and curators of the project were Nailya Allahverdiyeva and Arseniy Sergeev, who at that time represented the cultural agency "Artpolitika". The production of the project was carried out with the technical support of Atomstroykompleks. Despite the high popularity among the townspeople and guests of the city, the project has not acquired the official status of a monument or attraction. In fact, not recognized by local authorities as a culturally significant object, the keyboard nevertheless entered many unofficial guidebooks around Yekaterinburg. In the spring of 2011, drawing on the pavement of the Red Line began with it, passing through 32 main attractions of the city center.

Design features

The monument is a copy of a concrete keyboard on a scale of 30:1. Consists of 104 keys made of concrete weighing between 100 and 500 kg, arranged in a QWERTY layout. The keys are located in recesses at intervals of 15 cm. The total area of ​​the project is 16 × 4 m. The surface of the keys is flat with embossed symbols of the alphabet and function symbols, placed in the same order as on a conventional computer keyboard.

Cultural features and assessments

The concrete "Keyboard" can be viewed both as a fetish of the computer era and as an industrial "rock garden", a large-scale, environmental experiment that forms a new communication environment on the territory of the Yekaterinburg city embankment. Each button of the concrete keyboard is at the same time an impromptu bench. The monument has become a cultural landmark of the modern image of the city and a new "brand".

A positive resonance regarding the project is observed among all segments of the city's population. Monitoring the reaction of passers-by on the embankment showed that in 80% of cases the reaction of passers-by is enthusiastic, in other cases it is interested. Residents of the city are proud of the implementation of such a project on the territory of the city, in which they are primarily attracted by the non-standard incarnation and the modernity of the image.

Object security issues

Until June 2011, several keys were stolen from the monument (keys F1, F2, F3, Y), and the Apple logo was applied to the Windows key.

In this regard, in June 2011, the head of the public art program of the Perm Museum of Contemporary Art PERMM, Nailya Allahverdiyeva, proposed moving the monument to the keyboard to neighboring Perm. According to her, no one cared about him in Yekaterinburg, and the Perm Museum was very interested in this art object.

But thanks to the efforts of the Yekaterinburg initiative group, which included Evgeny Zorin, Lidia Karelina, director of Litek LLC Nadezhda Zaostrovnykh, on August 17, 2011, the lost keys were restored. The repair of the monument was made possible thanks to Anton Borisenko, director of the Union Trucks company, which sells and maintains trucks. During the restoration work, the author of the monument Anatoly Vyatkin was present.

According to the project coordinator, Nadezhda Zaostrovnykh, thanks to the repair, the famous Yekaterinburg landmark will definitely not go to Perm now. “But the problem remains, I would like the largest keyboard in the world to be included in the register of monuments, protected by the state and no one could ever take it from us. To do this, we made a collective appeal to enter the monument to the keyboard in the register of cultural property, on July 30, 2011, on the Day of the system administrator, we collected more than 100 signatures and on August 4, 2011 we transferred everything to the city administration. We are still waiting for an answer,” said Nadezhda Zaostrovnykh.

With the filing of Yevgeny Zorin and like-minded people, regular cultural events began to be held at the monument, the main of which is the so-called annual “Subbotnik on the Keyboard”. During the "subbotnik" the keys are cleaned and painted, and championships are held in throwing non-working computer mice to a distance, raising a bunch of hard drives, etc.

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“What misfortune do they have there, what misfortune can there be? They have everything of their own old, familiar and calm, ”Natasha mentally told herself.
When she entered the hall, her father quickly left the countess's room. His face was wrinkled and wet with tears. He must have run out of that room to let loose the sobs that were choking him. Seeing Natasha, he frantically waved his hands and burst into painfully convulsive sobs that distorted his round, soft face.
“Don’t… Petya… Go, go, she… she… is calling…” And he, sobbing like a child, quickly shuffling with his weakened legs, went up to a chair and almost fell on it, covering his face with his hands.
Suddenly, like an electric current, ran through Natasha's entire being. Something terribly hurt her in the heart. She felt terrible pain; it seemed to her that something was coming off in her and that she was dying. But following the pain, she felt an instant release from the prohibition of life that lay on her. Seeing her father and hearing her mother's terrible, rude cry from behind the door, she instantly forgot herself and her grief. She ran up to her father, but he, waving his hand helplessly, pointed to her mother's door. Princess Mary, pale, with a trembling lower jaw, came out of the door and took Natasha by the hand, saying something to her. Natasha did not see or hear her. She went through the door with quick steps, stopped for a moment, as if in a struggle with herself, and ran up to her mother.
The countess was lying on an armchair, strangely awkwardly stretching herself, and banging her head against the wall. Sonya and the girls held her hands.
“Natasha, Natasha!” shouted the countess. - Not true, not true ... He is lying ... Natasha! she screamed, pushing away those around her. “Get away, everyone, it’s not true! Killed! .. ha ha ha ha! .. not true!
Natasha knelt on a chair, bent over her mother, hugged her, lifted her up with unexpected strength, turned her face towards her and pressed herself against her.
- Mommy! .. my dear! .. I'm here, my friend. Mom, she whispered to her, not stopping for a second.
She did not let her mother out, tenderly wrestled with her, demanded a pillow, water, unbuttoned and tore her mother's dress.
“My friend, my dear ... mother, darling,” she whispered incessantly, kissing her head, hands, face and feeling how uncontrollably, in streams, tickling her nose and cheeks, her tears flowed.
The Countess squeezed her daughter's hand, closed her eyes, and fell silent for a moment. Suddenly she got up with unusual rapidity, looked around senselessly, and, seeing Natasha, began to squeeze her head with all her might. Then she turned her face, wrinkled with pain, to look at him for a long time.
“Natasha, you love me,” she said in a low, trusting whisper. - Natasha, you will not deceive me? Will you tell me the whole truth?
Natasha looked at her with tear-filled eyes, and in her face there was only a plea for forgiveness and love.
“My friend, mother,” she repeated, straining all the forces of her love to somehow remove from her the excess of grief that crushed her.
And again, in a powerless struggle with reality, the mother, refusing to believe that she could live when her beloved boy, blooming with life, was killed, fled from reality in a world of madness.
Natasha did not remember how that day, night, next day, next night went. She did not sleep and did not leave her mother. Natasha's love, stubborn, patient, not as an explanation, not as a consolation, but as a call to life, every second seemed to embrace the countess from all sides. On the third night, the Countess was quiet for a few minutes, and Natasha closed her eyes, leaning her head on the arm of the chair. The bed creaked. Natasha opened her eyes. The countess sat on the bed and spoke softly.
- I'm glad you came. Are you tired, do you want some tea? Natasha walked over to her. “You have grown prettier and matured,” the countess continued, taking her daughter by the hand.
“Mommy, what are you talking about!”
- Natasha, he is gone, no more! And, embracing her daughter, for the first time the countess began to cry.

Princess Mary postponed her departure. Sonya and the count tried to replace Natasha, but they could not. They saw that she alone could keep her mother from insane despair. For three weeks Natasha lived hopelessly with her mother, slept on an armchair in her room, gave her water, fed her and talked to her without ceasing - she spoke, because one gentle, caressing voice calmed the countess.
The emotional wound of the mother could not heal. Petya's death tore off half of her life. A month after the news of Petya's death, which found her a fresh and vigorous fifty-year-old woman, she left her room half dead and not taking part in life - an old woman. But the same wound that half killed the Countess, this new wound called Natasha to life.
The emotional wound that comes from the rupture spiritual body, just like a physical wound, strange as it may seem, after a deep wound has healed and seems to have converged on its edges, a spiritual wound, like a physical wound, heals only from within by the protruding force of life.
Natasha's wound also healed. She thought her life was over. But suddenly love for her mother showed her that the essence of her life - love - was still alive in her. Love has awakened, and life has awakened.
The last days of Prince Andrei connected Natasha with Princess Mary. A new misfortune brought them even closer. Princess Marya postponed her departure and for the last three weeks, as if she were a sick child, she looked after Natasha. The last weeks spent by Natasha in her mother's room had sapped her physical strength.
Once, in the middle of the day, Princess Mary, noticing that Natasha was trembling in a feverish chill, took her to her and laid her on her bed. Natasha lay down, but when Princess Mary, having lowered the blinds, wanted to go out, Natasha called her to her.
- I don't want to sleep. Marie, sit with me.
- You're tired - try to sleep.
- No no. Why did you take me away? She will ask.
- She's much better. She spoke so well today,” said Princess Marya.
Natasha was lying in bed and in the semi-darkness of the room she examined the face of Princess Marya.
"Does she look like him? thought Natasha. Yes, similar and not similar. But it is special, alien, completely new, unknown. And she loves me. What's on her mind? Everything is good. But how? What does she think? How does she look at me? Yes, she's beautiful."
“Masha,” she said, timidly pulling her hand to her. Masha, don't think I'm stupid. Not? Masha, dove. I love you so much. Let's be really, really friends.
And Natasha, embracing, began to kiss the hands and face of Princess Marya. Princess Mary was ashamed and rejoiced at this expression of Natasha's feelings.
From that day on, that passionate and tender friendship was established between Princess Mary and Natasha, which happens only between women. They kissed incessantly, spoke tender words to each other, and spent most of their time together. If one went out, the other was restless and hurried to join her. Together they felt a greater harmony with each other than separately, each with himself. A feeling stronger than friendship was established between them: it was an exceptional feeling of the possibility of life only in the presence of each other.
Sometimes they were silent for whole hours; sometimes, already lying in their beds, they began to talk and talked until the morning. They talked for the most part about the distant past. Princess Marya talked about her childhood, about her mother, about her father, about her dreams; and Natasha, who previously with calm incomprehension turned away from this life, devotion, humility, from the poetry of Christian self-sacrifice, now, feeling herself bound by love with Princess Marya, fell in love with Princess Marya's past and understood a side of life that she had not understood before. She did not think of applying humility and self-sacrifice to her life, because she was used to looking for other joys, but she understood and fell in love with another this previously incomprehensible virtue. For Princess Mary, who listened to stories about Natasha's childhood and early youth, a previously incomprehensible side of life was also revealed, faith in life, in the pleasures of life.
They still never talked about him in the same way, so as not to violate with words, as it seemed to them, the height of feeling that was in them, and this silence about him made them forget him little by little, not believing it.
Natasha lost weight, turned pale, and physically became so weak that everyone constantly talked about her health, and she was pleased with it. But sometimes not only the fear of death, but the fear of illness, weakness, loss of beauty suddenly came over her, and involuntarily she sometimes carefully examined her bare hand, wondering at her thinness, or looking in the mirror in the morning at her long, pitiful, as it seemed to her, face. It seemed to her that it should be so, and at the same time she became frightened and sad.
Once she soon went upstairs and was out of breath. Immediately, involuntarily, she thought up a business for herself below, and from there she ran upstairs again, trying her strength and watching herself.
Another time she called Dunyasha, and her voice trembled. She called to her once more, despite the fact that she heard her footsteps - she called in that chesty voice with which she sang, and listened to him.
She didn’t know this, she wouldn’t have believed it, but under the impenetrable layer of silt that seemed to her that covered her soul, thin, tender young needles of grass were already breaking through, which were supposed to take root and cover the grief that crushed her with their life shoots so that it would soon be invisible and not noticeable. The wound healed from within. At the end of January, Princess Marya left for Moscow, and the count insisted that Natasha go with her in order to consult with the doctors.

After the clash at Vyazma, where Kutuzov could not keep his troops from wanting to overturn, cut off, etc., the further movement of the fleeing French and the Russians who fled after them, to Krasnoe, took place without battles. The flight was so fast that the Russian army, which was running after the French, could not keep up with them, that the horses in the cavalry and artillery were becoming more and that the information about the movement of the French was always incorrect.

Creatively minded artists are certainly changing the face of cities for the better. In Norway there is a monument to a paper clip, which was once invented there, in the USA a monument to peanuts pleases passers-by with a white-toothed smile. AT Russian city Tomsk boasts a monument to slippers, St. Petersburg sculptors immortalized bread in bronze, and Krasnodar residents placed a huge granite purse at the crossroads (its stone twin lies in the Austrian city of Melbourne). In this non-standard row there is a monument to the keyboard, which was installed in Yekaterinburg.

A bit of history

Whatever we do at the computer, we invariably use this convenient and familiar device. The grandmother of the modern keyboard was “born” in the century before last with the invention of a mechanical device with a set of keys, when pressed, the corresponding sign was printed on paper. At first, the characters on the buttons followed one another in alphabetical order, but typing comfort was achieved only with the QWERTY layout, which continues to "live" on modern keypads.

Stone ode "clave"

The idea to create a monument to the keyboard dawned on Anatoly Vyatkin from the Urals. He came up with it while thinking about projects for annual festival"Long history of Yekaterinburg". The sculptural composition is located on the embankment. It is a huge copy of a real computer keyboard in the ratio of 30:1. Each of the one hundred and four concrete buttons weighs from one hundred to five hundred kilograms and is at the same time benches on which you can sit down and relax. Symbols are applied on the surface of the concrete buttons, as it should be. Between them there are gaps of 15 centimeters. The author worked on his brainchild for about a month, and another week the monument to the keyboard was installed with the help of special equipment. Opening original sculpture took place in October 2005.

Modern city brand

The keyboard monument in Yekaterinburg did not impress the official authorities, therefore it does not have the status of a landmark of the Ural capital. However, Yekaterinburg residents have fallen in love with it, who consider it one of the most interesting and informative objects of the city. Travel agencies, without thinking twice, included the monument to the keyboard among the attractions and proudly demonstrate it to guests. It is from the concrete keyboard that the walking route begins cultural project"Red Line", acquainting residents and guests of Yekaterinburg with its history. And, by the way, the monument entered the top ten most popular and significant places cities. Moreover, the project is a contender for the title of one of the children jumping on concrete buttons with pleasure, simultaneously learning Russian and english alphabets. Couples in love make dates here, and young people have long encoded the meeting place with a password: "Press on the keyboard."

good idea

Author sculptural composition Anatoly Vyatkin claims that the monument personifies and perpetuates new era in the development of human communication. According to the artist, the keyboard is an attribute of the modern feeling of freedom and unity, the ability to feel part of modern world. Of course, the image of Yekaterinburg greatly benefits thanks to this uncomplicated and exceptionally successful monument, the first land-art sculptural work in the city.

A curious spectacle is presented from a certain angle by a monument to the keyboard. The photo shows her and the stone house standing on the right, very reminiscent of system unit. This composition is an inexhaustible source for the imagination of the townspeople, who have already informally renamed the river flowing near the sculpture into the “I-network” and dream of seeing a monument to a modem and a monitor next to a concrete keyboard, and maybe also a computer mouse.

In Yekaterinburg there is a monument, the existence of which most of the city's residents do not even suspect - this is a monument to the keyboard.

The keyboard was created in 2005 as a special project of the Long Stories of Yekaterinburg festival, designed by Anatoly Vyatkin. The producers and curators of the project were Nailya Allahverdiyeva and Arseniy Sergeev, who at that time represented the cultural agency "Artpolitika". The production of the project was carried out with the technical support of the company "Atomstroykompleks". Despite the high popularity among the townspeople and guests of the city, the project has not acquired the official status of a monument or attraction. In fact, not recognized by local authorities as a culturally significant object, the keyboard nevertheless entered many unofficial guidebooks around Yekaterinburg. In the spring of 2011, the drawing on the pavement of the "Red Line" began with it, passing through 32 main attractions of the city center.

The monument is a copy of a concrete keyboard on a scale of 30:1. Consists of 104 keys made of concrete weighing from 100 to 500 kg, arranged in a QWERTY layout. The keys are located in recesses at intervals of 15 cm. The total area of ​​the project is 16 × 4 m. The surface of the keys is flat with embossed symbols of the alphabet and function symbols, placed in the same order as on a conventional computer keyboard.

The concrete "Keyboard" can be considered both as a fetish of the computer age and as an industrial "rock garden", a large-scale, environmental experiment that forms a new communication environment on the territory of the Yekaterinburg city embankment. Each button of the concrete keyboard is at the same time an impromptu bench. The monument has become a cultural landmark of the modern image of the city and a new "brand".

A positive resonance regarding the project is observed among all segments of the city's population. Monitoring the reaction of passers-by on the embankment showed that in 80% of cases the reaction of passers-by is enthusiastic, in other cases it is interested. Residents of the city are proud of the implementation of such a project on the territory of the city, in which they are primarily attracted by the non-standard incarnation and the modernity of the image.

Interesting facts about the monument:
1. Professor Niklaus Wirth, the inventor of the Pascal language, who visited Yekaterinburg, expressed a desire to visit the project even at the installation stage.
2. The main city river Iset on Internet forums is now written as "I-network", and next to the "Keyboard" it is proposed to place a monument to the modem. Residents of Yekaterinburg fantasize about the possible placement of a monument to the Monitor and the computer mouse.

Where is the keyboard monument located?

1. Location of the monument: Yekaterinburg
   Date of opening of the monument: October 5, 2005
   Material the monument is made of: Concrete
   Description of the external monument: The surface of the keys is flat with embossed symbols for the alphabet and function symbols, placed in the same order as on a conventional computer keyboard.
   Dimensions: Width 4 m, length 16 m
   Author of the monument project: Anatoly Vyatkin
2. keyboard monument
   Location of the monument. Yekaterinburg
   Date of opening of the monument October 5, 2005
   Material from which the monument is made Concrete
   Description of appearanceThe monument consists of 86 keys

   Dimensions The total area of ​​the project is 16x4 sq. m.
   length 16m (52ft) width 4m (13ft)
   Author of the monument project Anatoly Vyatkin

3. http://turism.ws/ - Here is the most relevant information.
4. From the point of view of history, the computer entered our lives relatively recently. And the monument to the keyboard in Yekaterinburg is, moreover, quite young, its opening took place on October 5, 2005. The creation of the Yekaterinburg artist Anatoly Vyatkin is installed on the second tier of the Iset River embankment, from the side of Gogol Street. 86 concrete keys weighing about 80 kilograms each (but the "space" weighs as much as half a ton) are placed in the same order as in standard (qwerty) keyboards.
5. I have it on my closet.
6. The monument to the keyboard of Anatoly Vyatkin is the first land-art sculpture in Yekaterinburg, located on the second tier of the embankment of the I Seti River, from the side of Gogol Street.

   A flat area adjacent to the stairs was chosen for the monument. historical building located on the waterfront. The monument consists of 86 keys, weighing from 100 to 500 kg, made of concrete.

   The keys are located in recesses, with an interval of 15 cm. The total area of ​​the project is 16 x 4 sq. m. m. The surface of the keys is flat with embossed symbols of the alphabet and function symbols, placed in the same order as on a conventional computer keyboard.

   The Concrete Keyboard can be viewed as a fetish of the computer age and as a kind of rock garden, a large-scale, environmental experiment that forms a new communication environment on the territory of the city embankment. Each button on the concrete keyboard is a makeshift bench on which passers-by sit.

   The Keyboard Monument is the first monument in the city that fits not only into the local, but also into the international context. The computer keyboard is an international symbol of communication between people all over the world and an object without which the existence of modern humanity is unthinkable.

   The monument influenced the symbolic reinterpretation of the entire surrounding space and a sharp increase in its creativity. The old stone house located nearby is now called the system block.

   The main city river ISET, which has existed for several centuries - the meaning of the name of which has already been lost for modern residents, thanks to the activity of forums regarding the opening of the keyboard, is now written as Iset, where it is proposed to place a monument to the modem. Passers-by constantly fantasize about the possible placement of a monument to the Monitor and the computer mouse.