Monument to Miners
Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia
Completed: 1950
Sculptor: Alojzij Kogovšek
Genre: Spomenik, Socialist monument, former Yugoslavia
The monument is the larger of two statues dedicated to miners crafted by the same sculptor. The smaller “Miner” monument was erected in Velenje in 1953.
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