The world’s first monument to the Invisible Man

Yekaterinburg healed the glory of the city, which contains the most bizarre monuments, for example, the monument to Gene Bukin, the Guitar Vulture, the monument to the Keyboard. The monument to the Invisible Man, the literary hero of the novel by writer H.G. Wells, was no exception. This monument is the first monument of its kind in the world, opened in 1999.

The city center, the entrance to the library named after V.G. Belinsky is the place where the monument was installed. The exterior of the monument is very original – it is a bronze slab, the size of which is not more than a meter per meter, and engraving on it: “The world’s first monument to the Invisible Man, the hero of the novel by Herbert Wells”. In addition, the monument is decorated with two footprints, and, of different sizes.

Few people know that footprints belong to two real people. Left (leg size 43) – Evgeny Kasimov, writer and author of the idea, right (size 41) – artist Alexander Shaburov.

The Monument to the Invisible Man is perhaps the only monument that has been worked on for less than a week. The installation of the monument coincided with the festival “Cultural heroes of the XXI century”.