Masters of the OMI studio created a monument to volunteer Miroslav Mysla

April 21, 2018 in Kyiv near the Shulyavskaya metro station on the street. Smolenskaya, 17, a monument to volunteer Miroslav Mysla, call sign Peacemaker, who died heroically in eastern Ukraine, was unveiled.

The opening of the monument was attended by the mayor of Kyiv Vitaliy Klitschko, representatives of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, leaders of public organizations, and Kiev residents.

“This is not our first collaboration with the public organization “Svoboda”. Previously, the OMI studio created a monument to the Volunteer Soldier, installed in one of the park areas of Kyiv in Troyeshchyna,” noted art director of the OMI studio Bogdan Kazachenko.

The majestic monument to Miroslav Mysla, like the previous work of the masters, is cast in bronze and installed on a granite pedestal. As Bogdan Kazachenko noted, it took a long time to coordinate the sketch and make a model of the monument.

The masters of the OMI studio were tasked with not only achieving portrait likeness, but also conveying the character of the fighter in the image. To do this, experts studied many photographs of the Peacemaker and conducted a number of conversations with people who knew Miroslav.

“Of course, we achieved portrait similarity, created an identical shape, chevrons, and so on. But our task was to create the image of a Hero, for whom the integrity and independence of Ukraine stands above everything, even above his own life. The same as he was during life. And judging by the exclamations during the opening of the monument, we succeeded,” said the art director of the OMI studio.

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Miroslav Mysla, a historian by profession, volunteered in the ATO zone from the first days of the war. First, as part of the special purpose battalion of the Ministry of Internal Affairs “Sich”, then he served in the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the assault company “Karpatska Sich” of the 93rd separate guards mechanized Kharkov brigade. Died at the age of 24 on October 2, 2016 in the Lugansk region from multiple gunshot wounds during a mortar attack.