Единственная пальма в городе))) The only palm tree in the city

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The palm tree was forged at the end of 1895. blacksmith Mertsalov with the help of factory workers from a single piece of rail without welding and joints as an exhibit for an exhibition in Nizhny Novgorod. How could this be done a hundred years ago in just 3 weeks? The tree impresses with its naturalness, from afar, as if alive. Its height is 3.53 cm, weight without tub is 325 kg. In 1900, Mertsalov's palm was exhibited at the World Industrial Exhibition in Paris, where it received the Grand Prix. After it was transferred to the Museum of St. Petersburg, where it is stored to this day.
On September 12.1999, in Donetsk, on the square near the Expo-Donbass exhibition center, the first copy of Mertsalov's palm was installed. It is kept covered with a glass cap, its height is 4 m 20 cm. It was created by the Donetsk blacksmith S. F. Kaspruk. Then many copies were made, which were donated to many cities of the world (Kyiv, Lvov, Kharkov, Hanover, Ottawa, Moscow, Jerusalem, etc. ).
By the 75th anniversary of the Donetsk region in the summer of 2007, another copy of Mertsalov's palm was installed in Donetsk. It is located on Pushkin Boulevard near the building of the Donetsk Regional State Administration. This copy was forged by the blacksmith Yevgeny Yermak. The palm tree is no longer forged from a rail, but from Damascus steel and stands between two bowls of fountains. The weight of the copy is about 500 kilograms. Everyone loves to be photographed right next to her.