Monument to Happiness

In Tomsk, near the company Tomlestroy on Shevchenko Street, a monument to the wolf from the cartoon “There Was a Dog.” The authors of the sculpture were foundryman Maxim Petrov and consultant artist Leonty Andreevich Usov, who performed the famous scene “I’ll Sing Now!”. Financial support in the implementation of this project was taken over by the company Tomlestroy, which decided to give the city such an unusual monument on the four hundredth anniversary of the city.

Installed in 2005, it has become one of the city’s most unusual and memorable landmarks. The authors of the idea chose the image of the wolf from the well-known cartoon as the most vivid example of the state of happiness. Therefore, the monument to the wolf is called the Monument to Happiness. If you are in Tomsk, be sure to stroke the wolf on a round polished stomach.

From touch, the monument speaks one of the eight most popular phrases in the voice of Armen Borisovich Dzhigarkhanyan.