Obelisk "The Center of Asia" was erected in the capital of Tuva, city of Kyzyl, on the banks of the river Ulug-Khem (Upper Yenisei), on the left Bank a little below the confluence with the river Kaa-Khem (Small Yenisey), in the continuation of the Komsomol street.
The first draft of the obelisk to the globe on a two-meter square pedestal with soaring triangular spire was designed by the artist Vasily Demin in 1964 in honor of the 20th anniversary of the occurrence of Tuva in the USSR. Twenty years later, the 40th anniversary of Soviet Tuva, the area around the monument was landscaped, and the obelisk and its pedestal, faced with granite. The total height of the monument after reconstruction was about 11 meters. On the plinth of the reinforced plate with the inscription "Centre of Asia" in three languages: Russian, Tuvinian and in English.
5 Sep 2014 in celebration of the unification of Tuva and Russia, on the Yenisei embankment was installed updated the obelisk "Center of Asia". New sculptural ensemble "the Center of Asia" includes the grandiose figures of the Eastern dragons, and high stele, the decor of which is made in the form of symbolic animals, interwoven in a burst of climbing to the sky, surround the stele will be twelve figures of the cosmogonic animal images that make up the Buddhist horoscope.
A new composition is made in the Scythian motifs. This ensemble of three Arslanov (mythical animals such as lions), who hold a globe, surmounted by a spire.