The Independence Monument is a victory column located on Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) in Kyiv, commemorating the independence of Ukraine in 1991. The monument was built in a compositional center of the square to the 10th Anniversary of the independence of Ukraine in 2001.
Stylistically it presents a mix of Ukrainian Baroque and Empire style. The monument itself is a column with a figurine of a woman (Berehynia) with guelder-rose branch in her hand. The column is faced with white Italian marble that stands on a pedestal, the prototype of which is the Zaborovsky gate in St. Sophia of Kyiv. The total height of the monument is stated to be 61or 62 metres.
Authors: sculptor Anatoly Kushch, architects Serhiy Babushkin, Olexander Komarovsky, Ruslan Kukharenko, Oleh Stukalov.
