Monument to Gene Bukin
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Our time is humane in everything. This also affected the culturally developed city of Yekaterinburg. An unprecedented event in the history of Russia was the opening of a monument to the main character of the television series “Happy Together” – Gennady Bukin.
The statue of Gene Bukin was placed on Weiner Street, near the Greenwich shopping and entertainment center. At the opening of the monument came the performer of the role of Bukin, actor Viktor Loginov. The sculpture is cast in bronze, weighs about 500 kg. Bronze Gena, busy with a favorite business: holds one hand behind a belt of trousers, and in the second holds a woman's shoe.
Its location was not chosen by chance. According to the script of the series, the Greenwich shopping mall is the permanent place of work of Gene. On the creation of the monument worked well-known in Yekaterinburg master Victor Mosielev. His work can be seen here, on Weiner Street.
The actor himself, Viktor Loginov, admitted that he had never experienced such vivid emotions, except when he took the child from the hospital. Such a creative idea was generated by Yekaterinburg businessman Igor Zavodsky, founder of Greenwich shopping mall.