Monument tourists show up in the historical center of Irkutsk

Soon take its rightful place a monument to the "Tourist". He appears in the September 27 World Tourism Day on the corner of Karl Marx and Litvinov. The sculpture is moved to Irkutsk in September together with the monuments of the "founder" and "The wives of the Decembrists." Now the "Tourist" is present in the studio of the authors of Elijah and Eugene Stawski. As outlined boss of urban design and landscape design Niktovenko Anna, before installing the statue will return to normal. It will be polished to a special blend of wax, turpentine and umber. The mixture makes a shape on the surface protective film, helping it survive in its original form. We recall the actual sculpture will be installed at the initiative committee on urban politician administration of Irkutsk. The bronze figure of 2.2 meters tall and weighing almost 300 kg. was cast in the workshop "LitArt" in the town of Zhukovsky, Moscow region. This is the most famous in Russia manufacturer of monuments. The cost of the monument was 2 million 100 thousand rubles .. The project is funded entirely by "send."