The keyboard was created in 2005 as a special project of the Long Stories of Yekaterinburg festival, designed by Anatoly Vyatkin. The producers and curators of the project were Nailya Allahverdiyeva and Arseniy Sergeev, who at that time represented the cultural agency "Artpolitika". The production of the project was carried out with the technical support of Atomstroykompleks. Despite the high popularity among citizens and guests of the city, the project has not acquired the official status of a monument or attraction. In fact, not recognized by local authorities as a culturally significant object, the keyboard nevertheless entered many unofficial guidebooks around Yekaterinburg. In the spring of 2011, drawing on the pavement of the Red Line began with it, passing through 32 main attractions of the city center.
Design features
The monument is a copy of a concrete keyboard on a scale of 30:1. It consists of 104 keys made of concrete weighing from 100 to 500 kg, arranged in a QWERTY / JZUKEN layout. The keys are located in depressions at intervals of 15 cm. The total area of the project is 16 × 4 m. The surface of the keys is flat with embossed symbols of the alphabet and function symbols, placed in the same order as on a conventional computer keyboard.
Cultural features and assessments
The concrete "Keyboard" can be considered both as a fetish of the computer age and as an industrial "rock garden", a large-scale, environmental experiment that forms a new communication environment on the territory of the Yekaterinburg city embankment. Each button of the concrete keyboard is at the same time an impromptu bench. The monument has become a cultural landmark of the modern image of the city and a new "brand".
A positive resonance regarding the project is observed among all segments of the city's population. Monitoring the reaction of passers-by on the embankment showed that in 80% of cases the reaction of passers-by is enthusiastic, in other cases it is interested. Residents of the city are proud of the implementation of such a project on the territory of the city, in which they are primarily attracted by the non-standard incarnation and the modernity of the image.
In February 2019, the Yandex company published statistics on Russian search queries related to museums, attractions and exhibitions. In the ranking of monuments, the monument to the keyboard was in 2nd place: it was only ahead of the Bronze Horseman in St. Petersburg, the third was the monument to Minin and Pozharsky on Red Square in Moscow.
Object security issues
Until June 2011, several keys were stolen from the monument (keys F1 , F2 , F3 , Y), and the Apple logo was applied to the ⊞ Win key.
In this regard, in June 2011, the head of the public art program of the Perm Museum of Contemporary Art PERMM, Nailya Allahverdiyeva, proposed moving the monument to the keyboard to neighboring Perm. According to her, no one cared about him in Yekaterinburg, and the Perm Museum was very interested in this art object.
But thanks to the efforts of the Yekaterinburg initiative group, which included Evgeny Zorin, Lidia Karelina, director of Litek LLC Nadezhda Zaostrovnykh, on August 17, 2011, the lost keys were restored. The repair of the monument was made possible thanks to Anton Borisenko, director of Union Trucks, a truck sales and service company. During the restoration work, the author of the monument Anatoly Vyatkin was present.
According to the project coordinator, Nadezhda Zaostrovnykh, thanks to the repair, the famous Yekaterinburg landmark will definitely not go to Perm now. “But the problem remains, I would like the largest keyboard in the world to be included in the register of monuments, protected by the state and no one could ever take it from us. To do this, we made a collective appeal to enter the monument to the keyboard in the register of cultural property, on July 30, 2011, on the Day of the system administrator, we collected more than 100 signatures and on August 4, 2011 we transferred everything to the city administration. We are still waiting for an answer,” said Nadezhda Zaostrovnykh.
With the filing of Yevgeny Zorin and like-minded people, regular cultural events began to be held at the monument, the main of which is the so-called annual “Subbotnik on the Keyboard”. During the “subbotnik”, keys are cleaned and painted, and championships are held in throwing non-working computer mice to a distance, lifting a bunch of hard drives, etc. In 2017, two volunteers from the USA took part in the painting procedure. Also on the last Friday of July at the keyboard, SysAdmin Day is officially held with similar competitions.
Pavel "Stringer" Plaksin, Stas Yakubovsky, Evgeny "Master" Lukyanov, Konstantin Bashchenko, Max Filenkov, Vitaly "Ris" Bukharov, Nikolai Knyazev, Oleg Shabalin, Anton Khudyakov, Gleb Schipachev, Igor "Cook" Kononov, Ivan KryukovKeyboard Monument - the first land art sculpture in Yekaterinburg dedicated to a computer keyboard, located on the second tier of the Iset river embankment, from Gogol street. Opened October 5, 2005. Author - Anatoly Vyatkin.
History of creation
The keyboard was created in 2005 as a special project of the Long Stories of Yekaterinburg festival, designed by Anatoly Vyatkin. The producers and curators of the project were Nailya Allahverdiyeva and Arseniy Sergeev, who at that time represented the cultural agency "Artpolitika". The production of the project was carried out with the technical support of Atomstroykompleks. Despite the high popularity among the townspeople and guests of the city, the project has not acquired the official status of a monument or attraction. In fact, not recognized by local authorities as a culturally significant object, the keyboard nevertheless entered many unofficial guidebooks around Yekaterinburg. In the spring of 2011, the painting on the pavement of the Red Line began with it, passing through 32 main attractions of the city center.
Design features
The monument is a copy of a concrete keyboard on a scale of 30:1. Consists of 104 keys made of concrete weighing from 100 to 500 kg, arranged in a QWERTY layout. The keys are located in recesses with an interval of 15 cm. The total area of the project is 16 4 m. The surface of the keys is flat with embossed symbols of the alphabet and function symbols, placed in the same order as on a conventional computer keyboard.
Cultural features and assessments
The concrete "Keyboard" can be considered both as a fetish of the computer age and as an industrial "rock garden", a large-scale, environmental experiment that forms a new communication environment on the territory of the Yekaterinburg city embankment. Each button of the concrete keyboard is at the same time an impromptu bench. The monument has become a cultural landmark of the modern image of the city and a new "brand".
A positive resonance regarding the project is observed among all segments of the city's population. Monitoring the reaction of passers-by on the embankment showed that in 80% of cases the reaction of passers-by is enthusiastic, in other cases it is interested. Residents of the city are proud of the implementation of such a project on the territory of the city, in which they are primarily attracted by the non-standard embodiment and the modernity of the image.
Object security issues
Anatoly Vyatkin and Anton Borisenko restore the lost keys
Until June 2011, several keys were stolen from the monument (keys F1, F2, F3, Y), and the Apple logo was applied to the Windows key.
In this regard, in June 2011, the head of the public art program of the Perm Museum of Contemporary Art PERMM, Nailya Allahverdiyeva, proposed moving the monument to the keyboard to neighboring Perm. According to her, no one in Yekaterinburg cared about him, and the Perm Museum was very interested in this art object.
But thanks to the efforts of the Yekaterinburg initiative group, which included Evgeny Zorin, Lidia Karelina, director of Litek LLC Nadezhda Zaostrovnykh, on August 17, 2011, the lost keys were restored. The repair of the monument was made possible thanks to Anton Borisenko, director of Union Trucks, a truck sales and service company. During the restoration work, the author of the monument Anatoly Vyatkin was present.
According to the project coordinator, Nadezhda Zaostrovnykh, thanks to the repair, the famous Yekaterinburg landmark will definitely not go to Perm now. “But the problem remains, I would like the largest keyboard in the world to be included in the register of monuments, protected by the state and no one could ever take it from us. To do this, we made a collective appeal to enter the monument to the keyboard in the register of cultural values, on July 30, 2011, on the Day of the system administrator, we collected more than 100 signatures and on August 4, 2011 we transferred everything to the city administration. We are still waiting for an answer,” said Nadezhda Zaostrovnykh.
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In October 2005, on the left bank of the river. Iset, Sverdlovsk region, a unique land art object appeared - a monument to the keyboard on a scale of 30:1. The author of the project, Anatoly Vyatkin, a resident of Yekaterinburg, spent a month cutting keys out of concrete, and another week to install them on the embankment of his native city. The installation of the keyboard in the QWERTY layout was carried out using special equipment: the weight of standard keys varied from 80 to 500 kg, and the "space" weighed no less than a car - 1.5 tons.
The finished installation has gained unprecedented popularity among citizens and tourists, who have adapted the structural elements for benches for relaxation. Unfortunately, the keyboard did not escape the fate of most Russian monuments: vandals uprooted the F1, F2, F3 and Y keys in an unknown direction, and the Apple logo was applied to the Windows key. In 2011, the monument was restored by the efforts of enthusiasts. Currently, the collection of signatures in favor of including the installation in the list of culturally significant objects of the city and region has been completed. The relevant project has been submitted to the local authorities for consideration.
What to see
The concrete keyboard consists of 104 keys spaced 15 cm apart. Installation size 16x4 sq. m so organically fit into the surrounding landscape that the townspeople renamed the nearby objects in the "computer key": r. Iset turned into an I-network, and a rectangular stone building on the side of the monument became known as the "system block".
Enthusiasts are in favor of installing computer mouse and modem monuments next to the keyboard, but the matter has not yet gone further than planning.
The monument to the keyboard has become so firmly established in the life of the townspeople that no one will remember when and at whose suggestion the well-known for the whole of Yekaterinburg “Subbotniks on the keyboard” began to be held near it - events for painting and cleaning keys, accompanied by various contests like throwing non-working computer mice and lifting bundles of hard drives weighing several kg.
On ordinary days, tourists crowd around the keyboard: according to local belief, those who manage to “type” their innermost desire on it by jumping on the keys will certainly find what they want. This is not as easy to do as it seems, but there is no end to those who want to try their luck. According to another belief, those who “press” the Cntr, Alt and Delete keys in sequence will “reboot” life and open a new, happy page in it. If this turns out to be too much for someone, you can simply press Delete - and remove from life all unnecessary, obsolete. True or not, it is difficult to judge, nevertheless, the townspeople are no longer surprised when they notice a person jumping on the keys - another seeker of happiness.
Practical Information
The monument was erected in Yekaterinburg, opposite the street. Gorky, between houses 14a and 28a. You can get to it by bus No. 19 or trolleybuses No. 1, 5, 6, 9, 11, 15 (stop "Federation of Trade Unions").
Keyboard monument- the first land art sculpture in Yekaterinburg dedicated to a computer keyboard. Opened October 5, 2005. Author - Anatoly Vyatkin.
History of creation
The keyboard was created in 2005 as a special project of the Long Stories of Yekaterinburg festival, designed by Anatoly Vyatkin. The producers and curators of the project were Nailya Allahverdiyeva and Arseniy Sergeev, who at that time represented the cultural agency "Artpolitika". The production of the project was carried out with the technical support of Atomstroykompleks. Despite the high popularity among the townspeople and guests of the city, the project has not acquired the official status of a monument or attraction. In fact, not recognized by local authorities as a culturally significant object, the keyboard nevertheless entered many unofficial guidebooks around Yekaterinburg. In the spring of 2011, drawing on the pavement of the Red Line began with it, passing through 32 main attractions of the city center.
Design features
The monument is a copy of a concrete keyboard on a scale of 30:1. Consists of 104 keys made of concrete weighing between 100 and 500 kg, arranged in a QWERTY layout. The keys are located in recesses at intervals of 15 cm. The total area of the project is 16 × 4 m. The surface of the keys is flat with raised symbols for the alphabet and function symbols, placed in the same order as on a conventional computer keyboard.
Cultural features and assessments
The concrete "Keyboard" can be considered both as a fetish of the computer age and as an industrial "rock garden", a large-scale, environmental experiment that forms a new communication environment on the territory of the Yekaterinburg city embankment. Each button of the concrete keyboard is at the same time an impromptu bench. The monument has become a cultural landmark of the modern image of the city and a new "brand".
A positive resonance regarding the project is observed among all segments of the city's population. Monitoring the reaction of passers-by on the embankment showed that in 80% of cases the reaction of passers-by is enthusiastic, in other cases it is interested. Residents of the city are proud of the implementation of such a project on the territory of the city, in which they are primarily attracted by the non-standard incarnation and the modernity of the image.
Object security issues
Until June 2011, several keys were stolen from the monument (keys F1, F2, F3, Y), and the Apple logo was applied to the Windows key.
In this regard, in June 2011, the head of the public art program of the Perm Museum of Contemporary Art PERMM, Nailya Allahverdiyeva, proposed moving the monument to the keyboard to neighboring Perm. According to her, no one cared about him in Yekaterinburg, and the Perm Museum was very interested in this art object.
But thanks to the efforts of the Yekaterinburg initiative group, which included Evgeny Zorin, Lidia Karelina, director of Litek LLC Nadezhda Zaostrovnykh, on August 17, 2011, the lost keys were restored. The repair of the monument was made possible thanks to Anton Borisenko, director of Union Trucks, a truck sales and service company. During the restoration work, the author of the monument Anatoly Vyatkin was present.
According to the project coordinator, Nadezhda Zaostrovnykh, thanks to the repair, the famous Yekaterinburg landmark will definitely not go to Perm now. “But the problem remains, I would like the largest keyboard in the world to be included in the register of monuments, protected by the state and no one could ever take it from us. To do this, we made a collective appeal to enter the monument to the keyboard in the register of cultural property, on July 30, 2011, on the Day of the system administrator, we collected more than 100 signatures and on August 4, 2011 we transferred everything to the city administration. We are still waiting for an answer,” said Nadezhda Zaostrovnykh.
With the filing of Yevgeny Zorin and like-minded people, regular cultural events began to be held at the monument, the main of which is the so-called annual “Subbotnik on the Keyboard”. During the "subbotnik" the keys are cleaned and painted, and championships are held in throwing non-working computer mice to a distance, raising a bunch of hard drives, etc.
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“What is their misfortune, what misfortune can there be? They have everything of their own old, familiar and quiet, ”Natasha mentally told herself.When she entered the hall, her father quickly left the countess's room. His face was wrinkled and wet with tears. He must have run out of that room to let loose the sobs that were choking him. Seeing Natasha, he frantically waved his hands and burst into painfully convulsive sobs that distorted his round, soft face.
“Don’t… Petya… Go, go, she… she… is calling…” And he, sobbing like a child, quickly shuffling with his weakened legs, went up to a chair and almost fell on it, covering his face with his hands.
Suddenly, like an electric current, ran through Natasha's entire being. Something terribly hurt her in the heart. She felt a terrible pain; it seemed to her that something was coming off in her and that she was dying. But following the pain, she felt an instant release from the prohibition of life that lay on her. Seeing her father and hearing her mother's terrible, rude cry from behind the door, she instantly forgot herself and her grief. She ran up to her father, but he, waving his hand helplessly, pointed to her mother's door. Princess Mary, pale, with a trembling lower jaw, came out of the door and took Natasha by the hand, saying something to her. Natasha did not see or hear her. She went through the door with quick steps, stopped for a moment, as if in a struggle with herself, and ran up to her mother.
The Countess was lying on an armchair, strangely awkwardly stretching herself, and banging her head against the wall. Sonya and the girls held her hands.
“Natasha, Natasha!” shouted the countess. - Not true, not true ... He is lying ... Natasha! she screamed, pushing away those around her. - Go away, everyone, it's not true! Killed! .. ha ha ha ha! .. not true!
Natasha knelt on an armchair, bent over her mother, embraced her, lifted her up with unexpected force, turned her face towards her, and clung to her.
- Mommy! .. my dear! .. I'm here, my friend. Mom, she whispered to her, not stopping for a second.
She did not let her mother out, tenderly wrestled with her, demanded a pillow, water, unbuttoned and tore her mother's dress.
“My friend, my dear ... mother, darling,” she whispered incessantly, kissing her head, hands, face and feeling how uncontrollably, in streams, tickling her nose and cheeks, her tears flowed.
The Countess squeezed her daughter's hand, closed her eyes, and fell silent for a moment. Suddenly she got up with unusual rapidity, looked around senselessly, and, seeing Natasha, began to squeeze her head with all her might. Then she turned her face, wrinkled with pain, to look at him for a long time.
“Natasha, you love me,” she said in a low, trusting whisper. - Natasha, you will not deceive me? Will you tell me the whole truth?
Natasha looked at her with tear-filled eyes, and in her face there was only a plea for forgiveness and love.
“My friend, mother,” she repeated, straining all the forces of her love to somehow remove from her the excess of grief that crushed her.
And again, in a powerless struggle with reality, the mother, refusing to believe that she could live when her beloved boy, blooming with life, was killed, fled from reality in a world of madness.
Natasha did not remember how that day, night, next day, next night went. She did not sleep and did not leave her mother. Natasha's love, stubborn, patient, not as an explanation, not as a consolation, but as a call to life, every second seemed to embrace the countess from all sides. On the third night, the Countess was quiet for a few minutes, and Natasha closed her eyes, leaning her head on the arm of the chair. The bed creaked. Natasha opened her eyes. The Countess sat on the bed and spoke softly.
- I'm glad you came. Are you tired, do you want some tea? Natasha walked over to her. “You have grown prettier and matured,” the countess continued, taking her daughter by the hand.
“Mommy, what are you talking about!”
- Natasha, he is gone, no more! And, embracing her daughter, for the first time the countess began to cry.
Princess Mary postponed her departure. Sonya and the count tried to replace Natasha, but they could not. They saw that she alone could keep her mother from insane despair. For three weeks Natasha lived hopelessly with her mother, slept on an armchair in her room, gave her water, fed her and talked to her without ceasing - she spoke, because one gentle, caressing voice calmed the countess.
The emotional wound of the mother could not heal. Petya's death tore off half of her life. A month after the news of Petya's death, which found her a fresh and vigorous fifty-year-old woman, she left her room half dead and not taking part in life - an old woman. But the same wound that half killed the Countess, this new wound called Natasha to life.
A spiritual wound resulting from a rupture of the spiritual body, just like a physical wound, however strange it may seem, after a deep wound has healed and seems to have come together, a spiritual wound, like a physical wound, heals only from within by the protruding force of life.
Natasha's wound also healed. She thought her life was over. But suddenly love for her mother showed her that the essence of her life - love - was still alive in her. Love has awakened, and life has awakened.
The last days of Prince Andrei connected Natasha with Princess Mary. A new misfortune brought them even closer. Princess Marya postponed her departure and for the last three weeks, as if she were a sick child, she looked after Natasha. The last weeks spent by Natasha in her mother's room had sapped her physical strength.
Once, in the middle of the day, Princess Mary, noticing that Natasha was trembling in a feverish chill, took her to her and laid her on her bed. Natasha lay down, but when Princess Mary, having lowered the blinds, wanted to go out, Natasha called her to her.
- I don't want to sleep. Marie, sit with me.
- You're tired - try to sleep.
- No no. Why did you take me away? She will ask.
- She's much better. She spoke so well today,” said Princess Marya.
Natasha was lying in bed and in the semi-darkness of the room she examined the face of Princess Marya.
"Does she look like him? thought Natasha. Yes, similar and not similar. But it is special, alien, completely new, unknown. And she loves me. What's on her mind? Everything is good. But how? What does she think? How does she look at me? Yes, she's beautiful."
“Masha,” she said, timidly pulling her hand to her. Masha, don't think I'm stupid. No? Masha, dove. I love you so much. Let's be really, really friends.
And Natasha, embracing, began to kiss the hands and face of Princess Marya. Princess Mary was ashamed and rejoiced at this expression of Natasha's feelings.
From that day on, that passionate and tender friendship was established between Princess Mary and Natasha, which happens only between women. They kissed incessantly, spoke tender words to each other, and spent most of their time together. If one went out, the other was restless and hurried to join her. Together they felt a greater harmony with each other than separately, each with himself. A feeling stronger than friendship was established between them: it was an exceptional feeling of the possibility of life only in the presence of each other.
Sometimes they were silent for whole hours; sometimes, already lying in their beds, they began to talk and talked until the morning. They talked mostly about the distant past. Princess Marya talked about her childhood, about her mother, about her father, about her dreams; and Natasha, who previously with calm incomprehension turned away from this life, devotion, humility, from the poetry of Christian self-sacrifice, now, feeling bound by love with Princess Marya, fell in love with Princess Marya's past and understood the previously incomprehensible side of life to her. She did not think of applying humility and self-sacrifice to her life, because she was used to looking for other joys, but she understood and fell in love with another this previously incomprehensible virtue. For Princess Mary, who listened to stories about Natasha's childhood and early youth, a previously incomprehensible side of life was also revealed, faith in life, in the pleasures of life.
They still never spoke about him in the same way, so as not to violate with words, as it seemed to them, the height of feeling that was in them, and this silence about him made them forget him little by little, not believing it.
Natasha lost weight, turned pale, and physically became so weak that everyone constantly talked about her health, and she was pleased with it. But sometimes not only the fear of death, but the fear of illness, weakness, loss of beauty suddenly came over her, and involuntarily she sometimes carefully examined her bare hand, surprised at its thinness, or looked in the mirror in the morning at her stretched out, miserable, as it seemed to her. , face. It seemed to her that it should be so, and at the same time she became frightened and sad.
Once she soon went upstairs and was out of breath. Immediately, involuntarily, she thought up a business for herself below, and from there she ran upstairs again, trying her strength and watching herself.
Another time she called Dunyasha, and her voice trembled. She called to her once more, in spite of the fact that she heard her footsteps - she called in that chesty voice with which she sang, and listened to him.
She didn’t know this, she wouldn’t have believed it, but under the impenetrable layer of silt that seemed to her that covered her soul, thin, tender young needles of grass were already breaking through, which were supposed to take root and so cover the grief that crushed her with their life shoots that it would soon be invisible and not noticeable. The wound healed from within. At the end of January, Princess Marya left for Moscow, and the count insisted that Natasha go with her in order to consult with the doctors.
After the clash at Vyazma, where Kutuzov could not keep his troops from wanting to overturn, cut off, etc., the further movement of the fleeing French and the Russians who fled after them, to Krasnoye, took place without battles. The flight was so fast that the Russian army, which was running after the French, could not keep up with them, that the horses in the cavalry and artillery were becoming more and that the information about the movement of the French was always incorrect.
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Monument to Klava |
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| A country | Russia |
| City | Ekaterinburg |
| Project author | Anatoly Vyatkin |
| Builder | "Atomstroycomplex" |
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Description
In the center of Yekaterinburg, on the embankment of the Iset River, there is a "monument to Klava" - a concrete monument reproducing a computer keyboard on a scale of 30:1. This is the largest computer keyboard in the world. The monument consists of 86 keys, weighing from 100 to 500 kg, made of concrete. The keys are located in recesses, with an interval of 15 cm. The total area of the project is 16 x 4 sq.m. The surface of the keys is flat with embossed symbols for the alphabet and function symbols, placed in the same order as on a conventional computer keyboard. The project was made in 2005 by the Ural artist Anatoly Vyatkin as part of the Long Stories of Yekaterinburg 3 festival.
Story
From the point of view of history, the computer entered our lives relatively recently. And the monument to the keyboard in Yekaterinburg is, moreover, quite young, its opening took place on October 5, 2005. The creation of the Yekaterinburg artist Anatoly Vyatkin is installed on the second tier of the Iset River embankment, from the side of Gogol Street. 86 concrete keys weighing about 80 kilograms each (but the "space" weighs as much as half a ton) are placed in the same order as in standard (qwerty) keyboards.
The installation of the monument took place as part of the Ural Urban Action "Long Stories of Yekaterinburg". According to the organizers of this festival, the townspeople reacted positively to the appearance of the monument. People constantly come to the embankment to take photos of the unique sculptural composition. Little children are very happy, they are happy to jump on the "letters", and parents say that here you can learn the alphabet.
In 2011, the Perm Museum of Contemporary Art PERMM proposed to move the keyboard to Perm, because in Yekaterinburg they are not properly taken care of. Then it lacked a few keys, and instead of the Windows logo, someone drew the Apple logo. The keyboard was repaired by the initiative group, and it remained in Yekaterinburg. Since then, subbotniks have been regularly held, during which the keys are painted and restored if necessary.
Ural residents believe that the concrete keyboard can be viewed as "an experiment that forms a new communication environment on the territory of the city embankment." The new monument quickly began to influence the entire surrounding space. The old stone house located nearby is now called nothing more than a "system block". But for several centuries, the main city river Iset, the meaning of the name of which has long been lost for modern residents, thanks to the activity of the forums about the appearance of "Stone Klava", is now written as "Iset". There are also ideas to place monuments to the modem nearby, as well as to perpetuate a computer mouse in the monument.
The project ingeniously combines the values of Western and Eastern civilizations. This is not only a monument to an object of mass consumption, embodying a certain stage in the development of Western technological culture, but also a landscape composition that reproduces the tradition of the Eastern rock garden. So, the Ekaterinburg keyboard is quite suitable for the territory where the border between Europe and Asia passes.
