Monument to the kitten from Lizyukov Street in Voronezh

Monuments are different: historical figures, significant events And politicians. But, paradoxically, those erected in honor of fictional characters become favorites. Characters from movies and cartoons are especially popular, whose names often become household names and whose quotes often become popular.
On May 20, the competition “He’s a monument!” ended on Yandex, based on which I made this post. You can go here:...... and see how the votes were distributed among the candidates and what kind of monuments there are in nature...

Sha..!!..Guy..!!... Hotel "Youth"... m.Sportivnaya...Moscow

Big Marilyn (Chicago). An 8-meter statue of Marilyn Monroe weighing 15 tons stands on a huge ventilation grill, and the dress thrown up seems weightless in the rising air flow.

Lion cub and turtle. Moscow region, Ramenskoye.

The sculptural group “Adam, Eve and the Tempter Serpent” is located in a secluded, almost heavenly corner of the park near the Prospekt Vernadskogo metro station in Moscow.

On the Frunzenskaya Embankment in Moscow, a monument was unveiled “There is such a profession - to defend the Motherland,” created based on Soviet film"Officers".

Hong Kong. Avenue of Stars. Monument to Bruce Lee

Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. In Moscow on Smolenskaya embankment near the British Embassy

I’ll gouge out the blinkers... Monument to Evgeny Leonov in the image of an Associate Professor near Mosfilm

A monument to Ostap Bender was unveiled in St. Petersburg.

Cheerful clown in Moscow, directly opposite the circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard

St. Petersburg Angel in St. Petersburg

“This is happiness!” monument in Barnaul

A. S. Pushkin and the hero of his novel Evgeny Onegin. They have something to talk about. Yoshkar-ola

Monument to the flower girl. This is a monument to flower seller Bertha Klingberg (1898-2005). The “Schwerin flower girl” was known to many; she could always be seen in the city square, dressed in national costume and with a basket of flowers. Schwerin, Germany.

“Russia is famous for its teachers”...a monument to the first teacher in the mountains. Krasnoyarsk

"Chasing two birds with one stone." The monument to Pronya Prokopovna and Golokhvastov is a monument to the characters of the comedy film “Chasing Two Hares” located in Kyiv on Andreevsky Spusk.

Monument to student youth on the square in front of the Kirovograd National technical university.

monument to Gulliver in the courtyard of the philological department of the State University in St. Petersburg

“Right now I’ll sing” a monument to the Wolf from the cartoon “Once Upon a Time There Was a Dog”

An amazing sculpture in the form of a tailless cat sitting on scissors on the Yauza embankment in Mytishchi.

monument to a homeless dog in the mountains. Tyumen

The monument to Vodovoz is located on the territory of the Main Water Station of St. Petersburg

monument to a sailor's wife on the embankment in Novorossiysk

"White bride." Monument on the embankment in the city. Gelendzhik

Sea guards on patrol... a monument on the embankment in the mountains. Novorossiysk

monument to Lida and Shurik from the film "Operation Y..." in the mountains. Krasnodar

Monument to the sailor's wife. Installed on the territory of the Marine Station in Odessa.

The sculpture "The Wanderer", created from several hundred metal letters, on the shore of the Bay of Antibes. An 8-meter figure of a man, who clasped his knees with his hands, looks at the sea

Monument to Novgorodochka in Veliky Novgorod

monument wise owl from Soviet cartoon in the mountains Khabarovka

The monument to the poor donkey stands in the park area of ​​the mountains. Khabarovsk

monument to postman Pechkin in Kolpino

"Kisa and Osya were here." Monument to Ostap Bender and Kisa Vorobyaninov, Cheboksary

monument to Vladimir Vysotsky in Vladivostok

"Coward, Dunce and Experienced" monument in Perm

Kemerovo. Sculptural composition“Cradle” This sculptural composition is a symbol of gratitude to all mothers who protect, nurture and raise their children. After all, “the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.”

monument to the "Lady with a Dog" in Mogilev

"The nobility of time." Andorra. Salvador Dali.

Novokuznetsk. "Friendship sausage" from a Soviet cartoon, when a puppy Sharik and a kitten named Woof stand opposite each other and eat one sausage for two. Installed next to a recently opened meat store.

A pair of bays on the street in the mountains. Tobolsk

a monument to Ershov and the heroes of his tale was erected near the Tobolsk Kremlin

monument "Declaration of Love" in Tolyatti

"Monument to the Family" in the mountains. Saransk

A childhood fairy tale... The monument to Buratino was erected in Samara

"lost..."...monument to a wallet in the city of Krasnodar

"Children's fun" monument on one of the streets of Singapore

"Reflection." monument in China

Paustovsky on the banks of the Oka

The largest Omsk businesswoman M.A. Shanina was one of the first women in Omsk to join the merchant elite, its first guild.

A monument to a grandmother selling sunflower seeds is installed at the entrance to the Komarovsky Market in Minsk

There is a monument in Kostroma - a very small one. This is a basset hound. Nearby is a piggy bank.

Metal horses graze near the airport in Rostov-on-Don.

Monument to backgammon players in Vladikavkaz.

"Boy Drawing", Veliky Novgorod

monument in the Bobrovy Log park near Krasnoyarsk. The wolf knows how to "speak" - his vocabulary consists of nine phrases that he pronounces to each person who presses the medal located on his stomach.

"National Troika" in Irkutsk

monument to your favorite character from the cartoon "Hedgehog in the Fog"... Mt. Kyiv.

The monument to St. George is located in the rock at the entrance to the Alagir Gorge, North Ossetia-Alania.

Vitebsk. Street musician

Vitebsk. SHOEMAKER.

MARK CHAGALL. Vitebsk. - from my reader. Thank you!

"Gnomes". Sochi city

Honestly, if I had to judge, I would without a doubt give first place to the monument in the first photo in my post - the monument to the kitten from Lizyukov Street. But... I took first place in the competition on Yandex “He’s a monument!” this one:

The author of the project, local sculptor Vladimir Dolgov, presented the first Gomel resident in the form of a hunter landing on the shore in search of game.
Next to the man in the boat is a forest lynx, the symbol of Gomel.

Happiness to you, dear friends! A bag full of money, like those gnomes in the Sochi Arboretum! Money doesn't buy happiness, I understand. But it’s still good when they exist!

“People are busy looking for money. More profit, less faith. Both Marx and Lenin have been forgotten. And greed without measure is frightening.” These poetic lines, written as nostalgia for Soviet times, for some reason pop up every time you hear about total corruption in your home country Today. And the question: “Why is this happening?” gets stuck in a swamp of misunderstanding: “Why so much”? Indeed, millions, billions for one soul, for one body, for two arms and two legs - what is this for? When children, parents, friends and even pets are provided for a hundred years into the future, then where to put everything that was acquired through back-breaking corrupt labor?
It is clear that you can buy more power. For pampering, for fun. A lot of everything, by weight and retail, as a toy, with accompanying paraphernalia in the form of elite cars with flashing lights, bowing clerks along the red carpet to work, serf servants in the private domains of palaces. Can. Although, more often the opposite happens: first the chairs, then the money. That is, gaining power entails automatic access to the state budget, which can be read between the lines, like a feeding trough. And here there are no limits to the fantasies and inventions of those in power. It would be a topic, and mastering it would not be difficult. And here are cunning kickback schemes, the flow of budget funds flows as it should. They flow not for the state, not for the people, not for the cause, but for their loved ones. And, God bless them, let them collect for retirement, if not for the constant overkill in the game with public and private finances. For the logic of normal, even very greedy man- it's a complete mystery. Why so much? But, apparently, there is some other way of thinking at the level when money itself flows into your pocket around the clock, without stopping, without a lunch break. Apparently...
There is one assumption that has not been voiced before. It is unexpected at first glance, but upon examination, it can claim to be true. Every person is vain, even if he is secretive and not public. Many are trying to leave their significant mark on our Earth. For some, a tree planted, a house built, and born child, this is not enough for others. They need to fill up a hill in the middle of the steppe, build a castle on a high steep rock, create an empire around the world, in short, erect a monument to their loved one, while still alive. Yes, such that it would be visible from everywhere, so that everyone around would talk about it, so that rumor would fly all over the world. These monuments of ours to greed are growing like mushrooms after rain. Lighthouses of our time, which descendants will talk about without understanding the essence of what is happening. They, our descendants, will no longer be disgusted as we are today, but to add up logical chain even the most advanced historians will not succeed. Unfortunately, from the point of view of ordinary logic, there is no other more or less explanation for the existing boundless greed.
And here we come to the essence of reflection. And why, in fact, by initiating so many criminal cases of corruption, in lately, their main defendants remain untouchable, immune from prosecution? Comes to mind catchphrase from the film “Gentlemen of Fortune” - “Who will jail him, he’s a monument”! Indeed, why former ministers, the heads of corporations and authorities at all levels more often remain mere witnesses to the corruption cases of their subordinates, sort of outside observers? It’s funny when you hear that the missing millions flowed past the main person responsible for everything. And even if this is hypothetically true, it means that such an official must be imprisoned for negligence in the assigned work, for incompetence, for stupidity, in the end. But this, most often, is a screen behind which it is advantageous to hide so as not to sit down. And sitting down, oh, how hard it is, especially when you are a monument during your lifetime! The legs and back do not bend, the muscles turn to stone, the brain becomes ossified from such a seditious thought!
They always stole from us, and in Soviet era Same. But the volumes and sizes of the stolen goods cannot be compared with those naive times! And even today, when a bitter village drunkard is given more for a stolen sheep than for the stolen billions of representatives from the “monument elite”! This causes justifiable indignation among ordinary citizens of the country. How long? Maybe something will change today? In our direction, in the direction of modest fences, back from the rich monuments? So far, only an imitation of the fight against widespread corruption, some kind of restoration of already installed monuments, is visible. A surge of indignation breaks on the concrete foundations of the monuments. The level of our complaints against the authorities does not even reach the ankles of these copper figures. Monumental statues look down on us, disdainfully, as if not noticing our movement below. For them it’s vanity, the scurrying of ants...
And one last thing. I am against demolition of everything historical heritage, including monuments erected to Soviet leaders and ideologists. But my gut will not mind at all if what most citizens in this country expect will triumph, when monuments to corruption, theft of the country's wealth, insatiable frightening greed, supposedly of the elite, power or business, begin to fall. The perpetrators must be held accountable for their actions, without a statute of limitations. The thief should be in prison! Social justice is when monuments are planted!

Monument to the kitten from Lizyukov Street in Voronezh

Monuments are different: to historical figures, significant events and political figures. But, paradoxically, those erected in honor of fictional characters become favorites. Characters from movies and cartoons are especially popular, whose names often become household names and whose quotes often become popular.
On May 20, the competition “He’s a monument!” ended on Yandex, based on which I made this post. You can go here:...... and see how the votes were distributed among the candidates and what kind of monuments there are in nature...

Sha..!!..Guy..!!... Hotel "Youth"... m.Sportivnaya...Moscow

Big Marilyn (Chicago). An 8-meter statue of Marilyn Monroe weighing 15 tons stands on a huge ventilation grill, and the dress thrown up seems weightless in the rising air flow.

Lion cub and turtle. Moscow region, Ramenskoye.

The sculptural group “Adam, Eve and the Tempter Serpent” is located in a secluded, almost heavenly corner of the park near the Prospekt Vernadskogo metro station in Moscow

Hong Kong. Avenue of Stars. Monument to Bruce Lee

Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. In Moscow on Smolenskaya embankment near the British Embassy

I’ll gouge out the blinkers... Monument to Evgeny Leonov in the image of an Associate Professor near Mosfilm

A monument to Ostap Bender was unveiled in St. Petersburg.

A cheerful clown in Moscow, directly opposite the circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard

St. Petersburg Angel in St. Petersburg

“This is happiness!” monument in Barnaul

A. S. Pushkin and the hero of his novel Evgeny Onegin. They have something to talk about. Yoshkar-ola

Monument to the flower girl. This is a monument to flower seller Bertha Klingberg (1898-2005). Many people knew the “Schwerin flower girl”; she could always be seen in the city square, dressed in a national costume and holding a basket of flowers. Schwerin, Germany.

“Russia is famous for its teachers”...a monument to the first teacher in the mountains. Krasnoyarsk

"Chasing two birds with one stone." The monument to Pronya Prokopovna and Golokhvastov is a monument to the characters of the comedy film “Chasing Two Hares” located in Kyiv on Andreevsky Spusk.

Monument to student youth on the square in front of the Kirovograd National Technical University.

monument to Gulliver in the courtyard of the philological department of the State University in St. Petersburg

“Right now I’ll sing” a monument to the Wolf from the cartoon “Once Upon a Time There Was a Dog”

An amazing sculpture in the form of a tailless cat sitting on scissors on the Yauza embankment in Mytishchi.

monument to a homeless dog in the mountains. Tyumen

The monument to Vodovoz is located on the territory of the Main Water Station of St. Petersburg

monument to a sailor's wife on the embankment in Novorossiysk

"White bride." Monument on the embankment in the city. Gelendzhik

Sea guards on patrol... a monument on the embankment in the mountains. Novorossiysk

monument to Lida and Shurik from the film "Operation Y..." in the mountains. Krasnodar

Monument to the sailor's wife. Installed on the territory of the Marine Station in Odessa.

The sculpture "The Wanderer", created from several hundred metal letters, on the shore of the Bay of Antibes. An 8-meter figure of a man, who clasped his knees with his hands, looks at the sea

Monument to Novgorodochka in Veliky Novgorod

monument to the wise Owl from the Soviet cartoon in the mountains. Khabarovka

The monument to the poor donkey stands in the park area of ​​the mountains. Khabarovsk

monument to postman Pechkin in Kolpino

"Kisa and Osya were here." Monument to Ostap Bender and Kisa Vorobyaninov, Cheboksary

monument to Vladimir Vysotsky in Vladivostok

"Coward, Dunce and Experienced" monument in Perm

Kemerovo. Sculptural composition “Cradle” This sculptural composition is a symbol of gratitude to all mothers who protect, nurture and raise their children. After all, “the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.”

monument to the "Lady with a Dog" in Mogilev

"The nobility of time." Andorra. Salvador Dali.

Novokuznetsk. "Friendship sausage" from a Soviet cartoon, when a puppy Sharik and a kitten named Woof stand opposite each other and eat one sausage for two. Installed next to a recently opened meat store.

A pair of bays on the street in the mountains. Tobolsk

a monument to Ershov and the heroes of his tale was erected near the Tobolsk Kremlin

monument "Declaration of Love" in Tolyatti

Monument to Cinderella near the registry office in the city. Dolgoprudny (a hint that every bride has to work and work like Cinderella after leaving the beautiful hall of the registry office)...

"Monument to the Family" in the mountains. Saransk

A childhood fairy tale... The monument to Buratino was erected in Samara

"lost..."...monument to a wallet in the city of Krasnodar

"Children's fun" monument on one of the streets of Singapore

"Reflection." monument in China

Paustovsky on the banks of the Oka

The largest Omsk businesswoman M.A. Shanina was one of the first women in Omsk to join the merchant elite, its first guild.

A monument to a grandmother selling sunflower seeds is installed at the entrance to the Komarovsky Market in Minsk

There is a monument in Kostroma - a very small one. This is a basset hound. Nearby is a piggy bank.

Metal horses graze near the airport in Rostov-on-Don.

Monument to backgammon players in Vladikavkaz.

"Boy Drawing", Veliky Novgorod

monument in the Bobrovy Log park near Krasnoyarsk. The wolf can “speak” - his vocabulary consists of nine phrases, which he pronounces to everyone who presses the medal located on his stomach.

"National Troika" in Irkutsk

monument to your favorite character from the cartoon "Hedgehog in the Fog"... Mt. Kyiv.

The monument to St. George is located in the rock at the entrance to the Alagir Gorge, North Ossetia-Alania.

Vitebsk. Street musician

Vitebsk. SHOEMAKER.

MARK CHAGALL. Vitebsk. - from my reader awia49. Thank you!

"Gnomes". Sochi city

Honestly, if I had to judge, I would without a doubt give first place to the monument in the first photo in my post - the monument to the kitten from Lizyukov Street. But... I took first place in the competition on Yandex “He’s a monument!” this one:

The author of the project, local sculptor Vladimir Dolgov, presented the first Gomel resident in the form of a hunter landing on the shore in search of game.
Next to the man in the boat is a forest lynx, the symbol of Gomel.

Happiness to you, dear friends! A bag full of money, like those gnomes in the Sochi Arboretum! Money doesn't buy happiness, I understand. But it’s still good when they exist!

Monument to the kitten from Lizyukov Street in Voronezh

Monuments are different: to historical figures, significant events and political figures. But, paradoxically, those erected in honor of fictional characters become favorites. Characters from movies and cartoons are especially popular, whose names often become household names and whose quotes often become popular.

Sha..!!..Guy..!!... Hotel "Youth"... m.Sportivnaya...Moscow

Big Marilyn (Chicago). An 8-meter statue of Marilyn Monroe weighing 15 tons stands on a huge ventilation grill, and the dress thrown up seems weightless in the rising air flow.

Lion cub and turtle. Moscow region, Ramenskoye .

Sculptural group "Adam, Eve and the Tempting Serpent" is located in a secluded, almost heavenly corner of the park near the Prospekt Vernadskogo metro station in Moscow.

A monument was unveiled on Frunzenskaya Embankment in Moscow “There is such a profession - to defend the Motherland”, created based on the Soviet film "Officers".

Hong Kong. Avenue of Stars. Monument to Bruce Lee

Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. In Moscow on Smolenskaya embankment near the British Embassy

I’ll gouge out the blinkers... Monument to Evgeny Leonov in the image of an Associate Professor near Mosfilm

A monument to Ostap Bender was unveiled in St. Petersburg.

A cheerful clown in Moscow, directly opposite the circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard

St. Petersburg Angel in St. Petersburg

“This is happiness!” monument in Barnaul

A. S. Pushkin and the hero of his novel Evgeny Onegin. They have something to talk about. Yoshkar-ola

Monument to the flower girl. This is a monument to flower seller Bertha Klingberg (1898-2005). Many people knew the “Schwerin flower girl”; she could always be seen in the city square, dressed in a national costume and holding a basket of flowers. Schwerin, Germany.

“Russia is famous for its teachers”...a monument to the first teacher in the mountains. Krasnoyarsk

"Chasing two birds with one stone." The monument to Pronya Prokopovna and Golokhvastov is a monument to the characters of the comedy film “Chasing Two Hares” located in Kyiv on Andreevsky Spusk.

Monument to student youth on the square in front of the Kirovograd National Technical University.

monument to Gulliver in the courtyard of the philological department of the State University in St. Petersburg

“Right now I’ll sing” a monument to the Wolf from the cartoon “Once Upon a Time There Was a Dog”

An amazing sculpture in the form of a tailless cat sitting on scissors on the Yauza embankment in Mytishchi.

monument to a homeless dog in the mountains. Tyumen

The monument to Vodovoz is located on the territory of the Main Water Station of St. Petersburg

monument to a sailor's wife on the embankment in Novorossiysk

"White bride." Monument on the embankment in the city. Gelendzhik

Sea guards on patrol... a monument on the embankment in the mountains. Novorossiysk

monument to Lida and Shurik from the film "Operation Y..." in the mountains. Krasnodar

Monument to the sailor's wife. Installed on the territory of the Marine Station in Odessa.

The sculpture "The Wanderer", created from several hundred metal letters, on the shore of the Bay of Antibes, France. An 8-meter figure of a man, who clasped his knees with his hands, looks at the sea

Monument to Novgorodochka in Veliky Novgorod

monument to the wise Owl from the Soviet cartoon in the mountains. Khabarovka

a monument to the poor donkey Eeyore, stands in the park area of ​​the mountains. Khabarovsk

monument to postman Pechkin in Kolpino

"Kisa and Osya were here." Monument to Ostap Bender and Kisa Vorobyaninov, Cheboksary

monument to Vladimir Vysotsky in Vladivostok

"Coward, Dunce and Experienced" monument in Perm

Kemerovo. Sculptural composition “Cradle” This sculptural composition is a symbol of gratitude to all mothers who protect, nurture and raise their children. After all, “the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.”

monument to the "Lady with a Dog" in Mogilev

"The nobility of time." Andorra. Salvador Dali.

Novokuznetsk. "Friendship sausage" from a Soviet cartoon, when a puppy Sharik and a kitten named Woof stand opposite each other and eat one sausage for two. Installed next to a recently opened meat store.

A pair of bays on the street in the mountains. Tobolsk

a monument to Ershov and the heroes of his tale was erected near the Tobolsk Kremlin

monument "Declaration of Love" in Tolyatti

monument to Cinderella near the registry office in the city. Dolgoprudny (a hint that every bride has to work and work like Cinderella after leaving the beautiful hall of the registry office)...

"Monument to the Family" in the mountains. Saransk

A childhood fairy tale... The monument to Buratino was erected in Samara

"lost..."...monument to a wallet in the city of Krasnodar

"Children's fun" monument on one of the streets of Singapore

"Reflection." monument in China

Paustovsky on the banks of the Oka

The largest Omsk businesswoman M.A. Shanina was one of the first women in Omsk to join the merchant elite, its first guild.

In Russian Astrakhan local resident created a sculpture of the president in the image of a winged bear with a sturgeon in its paws, which, according to the author, should symbolize the intelligence, strength, kindness and sincerity of the Russian president.
The author of this (no doubt outstanding) work, self-taught sculptor Viktor Kropachev, called the work “Mind, Strength and Soul”. As he explained, the mixture of man, bear and eagle is the image of Russia, which is led by Putin.
“With his left foot, the bear steps on the eagle, whose wings are behind the back of the sculpture. Orel, according to the author, are the external enemies of Russia. The bear holds a symbol in its paws Astrakhan region- sturgeon,” says the author of the sculpture.
We are looking forward to the amateur sculptor from Yakutia making his own version of Putin...)).
In the meantime, in Russia the fashion for making monuments to the great Pu is acquiring flash mob proportions.
Thus, architect Zurab Tsereteli believes that a monument to Russian President Vladimir Putin should be erected in St. Petersburg.
In his opinion, the monument in St. Petersburg should show Vladimir Putin in full height, but the location and scale will need to be determined as the project develops.
Tseretelli recalled that more than ten years ago he had already created a monument called “In healthy body- healthy spirit,” which depicts Putin in a kimono as a judoka. However, the monument is still in the architect’s personal gallery.
Let me also remind you that in 2017, on the territory of one of the ski resorts in Chelyabinsk region They installed a sculpture of President Putin the skier.
In May of this year, in the village of Chastoozerye, Kurgan Region (Russia), the monument “Serving the Fatherland” was solemnly opened, which was originally planned to be dedicated to the President of Russia. The 3.5-meter monument to Putin had already been cast and even stood on the pedestal for some time, but they did not leave it here (the administration of the owner of the Kremlin apparently did not approve the design or the entire composition).
The most unusual Putin stands in the village of Agalatovo Leningrad region. Cossack ataman Andrei Polyakov ordered what he considers the most worthy incarnation of the president - in the image of a Roman emperor, in a toga and with the coat of arms of Russia on a medal. Putin the Emperor also has a laurel crown, but it was made removable and worn only on special occasions. Without him, they say, Putin looks more “ours” than Roman.
The main features of the Metroclub hotel complex near Novorossiysk are the sea, the sun, the mountain air and, of course, your own Putin. After the occupation of Crimea, the hotel owner decided to perpetuate the image of the president among the cypress trees.
Well, the most widely replicated image of Putin came off the assembly line of the Kusinsky Foundry and Machine-Building Plant in the Urals. 40 kg, 70 cm in height, material – pure cast iron. The company has already cast about 100 cast iron Putins, however, since 2001, they have managed to sell no more than a third of all models - the quality of the Putins, they say, is very poor.

Part of the material was taken from