Prikurivauchiy

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In Mihailovskiy Park, close to the bus-stop a young man standing on a hatch will wink you and ask to get a lighter. It is the most mysterious inhabitant of the park. The young man in a cap is Lohovskiy, a movie character that was filmed at the end of the 90-s in the studio “BelarusFilm”. The prototype of the sculptor is considered to be a real man – the movie producer Vladimir Golynskiy. He ordered this sculpture Vladimir Zhbanov in order to draw people’s attention to the released movie “Lohovskoiy case”. Trying to create the exact similarity of the movie producer, the sculptor made a plaster mask of his face. But they say not for nothing that to erect a monument for yourself while you are alive is a bad omen. At the moment when Vladimir Zhbanov was creating his master-piece and started to cast a bronze statue of the young man the Belarusian movie producer Vladimir Golynskiy died. But the sculptor finished his started work. The date of the statue’s installation in Mihailovskiy Park coincided with the 40th day of the Belarusian movie producer’s death. This creation got the name “Prikurivauchiy” that means a man who is getting a lighter.