Keyboard Monument

[2][3] The landmark depicts a Cyrillic computer keyboard at 30:1 scale (the area covered by the monument is 16 m × 4 m), with 104 concrete keys.

[5] Niklaus Wirth, Pascal programming language designer, evaluated the object while it was being constructed and found it to be fascinating.

[7] In 2018, in the course of Russia FIFA World Cup New York Times newspaper published a long article about the object.

[11] In 2016 during such an event a memorial plaque was set up at the monument to honour Eugene Zorin [ru], the Yekaterinburg FidoNet organiser and Internet pioneer who died recently.

[12] In the end of April, the "Keyboard Subbotniks" are also held, when people are cleaning and re-painting the monument, and "sports competitions" also take place.

The monument in 2011, the building in the background is sometimes dubbed the " computer case "
Close-up look with both layouts visible
Yekaterinburg Sysadmin Day near Keyboard monument in 2011