Obelisk Authors Petr Kapustin Voronezh State Technical University image/svg+xml Downloads PDF (Russian) DOI: https://doi.org/10.7480/projectbaikal.56.1326 Published 2018-08-13 Issue No. 56 (2018): interior of the city Section Articles How to Cite Obelisk. (2018). Project Baikal, 15(56), 76-79. https://doi.org/10.7480/projectbaikal.56.1326 More Citation Formats ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver Download Citation Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX Keywords: obelisk, square, elements of architecture, symbolism, sense in architecture Abstract The origin of the obelisk is mysterious. Like many other things in the history of our civilization, it occurs at once, perfectly shaped, without genesis or labour pains. Like the Great Pyramids, it appears ‘from nowhere’, in solid stone structures, in monoliths, and then similarly degrades down to bricks, boards and cemetery plaques.