The Monument to Aleksandr Khanzhonkov is a

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that is situated at Budyonnovky Prospect and Krasnoarmeyskaya Street intersection, near Marins Park Hotel, in

Rostov-on-Don Rostov-on-Don is a port city and the administrative centre of Rostov Oblast and the Southern Federal District of Russia. It lies in the southeastern part of the East European Plain on the Don River, from the Sea of Azov, directly north of t ...

and commemorates Russian

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Aleksandr Khanzhonkov Aleksandr Alekseevich Khanzhonkov ( rus, Александр Алексеевич Ханжонков, p=ɐlʲɪˈksandr ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪtɕ xənˈʐonkəf; — 26 September 1945) was a pioneering Russian Empire, Russian''Peter Rollberg (2016) ...

. Statue was made by Rostov-on-Don’s sculptor and academician of

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Sergey Oleshnya. and unveiled on 24 August 2016.

History

Lyubov Surkova first proposed a monument to Khanzhonkov.В Ростове-на-Дону открыли памятник Ханжонкову
/ref> She contacted the municipal administration and garnered additional support. Decision to memorialize pioneer of Russian cinematography was adopted in early 2016. Soon the work on sketches started – out of two created sketches, one was implemented. Sergey Oleshnya
/ref> and Yury Yakovlevich Dvornikov were chosen as lead sculptor and creator of the pedestal respectively. Other sculptors and architects also contributed to the creation of the monument. The statue is situated in front of the Alekseevskaya gymnasium where Aleksandr Khanzhonkov studied. Near the area is a

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. Two plaques will be placed in locations frequented by Khanzhonkov – on the building where the director spent his school days and where he watched a film for the first time. Figure of Aleksandr Khanzhonkov with an old camera was forged out of bronze. The height of the pedestal reaches 2 meters; the statue’s height is 2,5 meters. The statue was unveiled during International Motivational Film Festival Bridge of Arts and attended by several television presenters and actors.

References

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