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Belgrade – The installation of parts of the Stefan Nemanja statue has started at Sava Square in Belgrade, which will be fully completed in the next 10-15 days.
Source: Tanjug
Photo: Beoinfo
The pedestal of the monument is almost completely assembled, that is, the broken Byzantine solder with mosaics on the inside with details of the life of Stefan Nemanja and the history of Serbia, which, according to the Deputy Mayor Goran Vesi, are made with the same technique than the mosaics of the Temple of Saint Sava.
He announced to Tanjug that a group of Russian sculptors and masters would arrive in Belgrade on November 12 to work on the patination of the monument, which, he added, would begin around November 20.
He added that the monument’s author, Russian sculptor Alexander Rukavinykov, was supposed to arrive in Belgrade on November 12, but that it was postponed because he had not yet received permission to leave the country due to the coronavirus epidemic, as he was over 65 years.
Vesi said the monument is expected to be completely finished between December 15 and 25, but that citizens will not be able to see it until all works are completed in Sava Square.
“The inauguration of the monument itself depends on when all the works on the square will be completed, which are extensive, but in the coming months we can hope that everything is finished and we will get a square that I think we will all be proud of,” Vesi said. .
Among other things, he claimed that a sewage pumping station was being built near the monument, adding that on the other side of Sava Square, below the Sveti Sava Hospital, there was an old pumping station built between the two world wars.
“It is time to build a completely new station that will take over the function of the old one and will have a much larger capacity,” Vesi said.
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