A statue to compassion, dogs and the determination and solidarity of humane beings, “Unity” is a bronze art installation unveiled in March 2026 on the embankment of the Sayran Reservoir (near the Big Almaty River canal) in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
It commemorates a day in 2016 when a dog fell into a steep concrete canal and its owner got stuck trying to save it. A group of complete strangers linked arms to form a human chain and pulled both to safety. It was designed by prominent contemporary Kazakh artist Yerbossyn Meldibekov.
The sculpture depicts figures holding onto each other, with the hand of the final figure deliberately extended past the railing so passersby can literally grip it and symbolically join the human chain.
