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The QWERTY Monument is located on the embankment of the River Iset in Yekaterinburg. This installation represents the modern land-art trend. The monument depicts the layout of a conventional computer keyboard, but all the buttons are made of concrete blocks. They are made in scale 30:1 with respect to the real size of the computer keyboard. The composition consists of 104 keys, each weighing from 100 to 500 kg!

The author of the QWERTY Monument is Anatoly Vyatkin, who prepared this work in 2005 to the art-festival "Long Stories of Yekaterinburg", after which it was decided to leave the installation in the city. The keyboard has repeatedly been vandalized. There have also been discussions on transferring the installation to Perm, but local enthusiasts managed to save the monument. One of those who defended the monument was the local IT-entrepreneur and public figure Yevgeny Zorin, who is often called the “father” of the Ural Internet. Zorin died in 2015. Now, the «End» button of the keyboard is also a memorial plaque to honor Yevgeny Zorin. The QWERTY Monument gives start to an unofficial tourist route "Red Line" of Yekaterinburg, uniting 10 major attractions of the city. Of no less interest is the fact that each button of the keyboard is concurrently a bench. You can select any letter you like, sit on it and enjoy the views of the waterfront.

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