Description
The golden Sarmatian deer is a gift to the city from the mobile operator "Megafon". The sculpture is an enlarged replica of a deer figurine found in 1988 during excavations at the Filippovsky mounds in the Ilek district of the Orenburg region. Then the expedition led by Anatoly Pshenichnyuk, head of the archaeological department of the Institute of History, Language and Literature of the Bashkir branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, discovered a unique Sarmatian burial site – "Tsar's Kurgan". Among 600 different objects made of silver and gold, there were 26 massive wooden deer with branched horns of rare workmanship, upholstered in gold sheets.
One of these deer served as the basis for an amazing monument, cast at the Orenburg art combine "Plast". The height of the bronze "Sarmatian deer" is 2.1 meters. As it should be in cases with their favorite urban sculptures, Orenburg residents already have a tradition: to rub the bronze nose of a deer for good luck, health and strength.