"Where, where? In Karaganda!

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One of the most bizarre monuments in St. Petersburg, it's just a huge stone with a neat round hole in the middle. Everyone who walks on Mayakovsky street, you may think about this stone slab with a hole in the middle of all that he pleases. Foreigners first laugh: "Ah, the mysterious Russian soul!" Then try to find the song title, but in vain. Rock for love and doves, which somehow go around it circles. But especially in high esteem she had lovers who believe that it is a monument of love.
The monument was made by sculptor Yevgeny Spiritual in the framework of the project on the improvement of pedestrian zones in the Central district. Initially decorative composition was nameless, but it was the heart of the city and the people gave her the name "the Monument to the hole. Youth sees in sculpture profile Peak Ladies with pierced nose. In the evening at the "Monument to the hole going sweethearts. There was even a new city tradition is to put in the hole hands. They say it helps to find a life partner.

Address: St. Petersburg, Mayakovsky street, apartment 3

source: http://petersburglike.ru/2014-03-14/pamyatnik-dyrke/

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The monument to the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin stolen from the Park behind the house No. 32 on the street Militia in Moscow, according to the website of the Prefecture of the North-Western administrative district of the capital.

"Vandals have their eyes on the aerial image of the poet, probably because of the metal from which it was made. Despite the apparent ease monument weighed a lot, so in order to take him away, would be required to apply the technique," - said in the message.

In the Prefecture stressed that opened in 1974, the monument was already gone."

"The most annoying thing is that this time it was stolen in the year of the literature," added there.

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"the Most annoying thing is that this time it was stolen in the year of the literature

Not in the year of literature, and in the year of the crisis.Began, that the following electric wires, manholes, metal products diesel and electric trains, the fence with graves?

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ANATOLY, I think, Alexander went from Moscow. With shame.

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Others...
Mechanical Lenin
That said Dmitry Dibrov about this monument:
"15 years ago my friends architects introduced me to the strangest protected monument of Moscow, to which then a lot of years, I took my friends. This automatic Lenin is a unique sculpture, located in the district of the Leningrad station, right in front of the locomotive depot. The way it knows almost no one, which, however, did not prevent this monument of naive art to get into different reader avant-garde architecture. In 20-ies of the workers of the Moscow depot built the design of the locomotive wheels, steel beams, pulleys, handles, Krivoshapko-connecting rod mechanisms, thousands of small gears, the top of which is aluminum hitch. I saw happiness to contemplate this strange construction cried the Negro, rock musicians, young girls, gray-haired gentlemen." These words accurately describe the delight when you after a long journey in the doorways 3 stations finally come to the Depot and see this strange Lenin. The monument was made in the workshop of the sculptor Merkulova in 1925 year. Apparently Lenin aluminum, because the chipped silver paint is visible some other material. "Automatic" its too hard to call, rather mechanical. Platform with pedestal mechanically with the wheel pairs are not connected, but the latter seems to be installed electroweak. Various handles and other mechanisms, the intentions of the authors, had to bring in a rotation of the pedestal with Lenin. Now rotate the" leader of the world proletariat is unlikely to succeed, because the whole mechanism abundantly filled with paint.

About the monument "the cheese Friendship" and others can be found here:
http://www.ellf.ru/cognitive/27020-s...y-63-foto.html

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Thursday, may 21, in the Park at multi-storey buildings was a monument to John Lennon.
Residents of newly built residential houses in Vilnius, named "Oslo namai/House Oslo", write in social networks: "Before we told everyone that we live at the station, and now – Lennon".

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The song "Breakthrough" Ervin Herve-Laurent — gift of the government of Hungary to the city of Nizhny Novgorod in the framework of the Days of Hungary in Russia.

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In the Serbian capital Belgrade was solemnly opened a monument to the revolutionary Gavrila Principle, which in 1914 was shot in Sarajevo of the Austrian Archduke and his pregnant wife - Slav, Czech.

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on 28 June 1914, perfect Gavrilo Princip, is considered to be the formal reason for the outbreak of the First world war.