First-grader monument
Russia, Rostov-on-Don, M. Gorky St. 115
Description:
In 2011, in Rostov-on-Don, on the Day of Knowledge, a monument was erected to a first-grader who sat enthusiastically on a globe and held a book in his hands.
The sculpture of a schoolboy made of bronze 2 meters high and weighing about half a ton is installed in the courtyard of gymnasium No. 36.
The author of the sculpture is Dmitry Lyndin, who performed the work on the sketches of a tenth-grader of this school, Ani Nikolaeva. Work on the sculpture lasted about six months.