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The nose of Major Kovalev can be called the most unusual monument in St. Petersburg. In the Northern capital there are monuments to animals - cats and dogs, birds and horses. Monuments have been created for people of different professions - janitor and policeman, lantern and photographer, there are sculptures and literary heroes - Ostap Bender and the Little Prince. Character of the story N.V. Gogol - The nose of Major Kovalev is immortalized immediately in three monuments of the city on the Neva River.

If you recall the story, the nose of Major Kovalev had a habit of leaving his owner and walking about the city on his own. Apparently the same fate was prescribed for the monument - in September 2002 it disappeared from its place, although its weight was about 100 kilograms.

The monument was erected in October 1995 on the facade of the house No. 11 on Voznesensky Prospekt, and on November 27 it was solemnly participants of the Festival of Satire and Humor "Golden Ostap."

The monument is a gray limestone Putilov slab measuring 60 by 35 cm, in the lower part of which there is a nose image made of pink Ukrainian marble brought from the birthplace of N. Gogol, but in the ve The main part of the section is "The nose of Major Kovalev."

Where Major Kovalev's nose lives

Address: St. Petersburg, Voznesensky Avenue, 36.

Nose of Major Kovalev, St. Petersburg Major Kovalev's nose
Nose of Major Kovalev