A. P. Platonov haykali, Bronze statue of Soviet writer in Revolution Prospect, Voronezh, Russia.
The A. P. Platonov statue is a bronze figure of the Soviet writer Andrei Platonov, standing on Revolution Prospect in central Voronezh. It shows him in a long coat with his hands in his pockets, mounted on a pedestal faced with dark marble.
The monument was made by sculptors Ivan Dikunov and Elza Pak and unveiled on September 11, 1999, the date that would have been Platonov's 100th birthday. The choice of that day tied the dedication directly to his memory rather than to any political calendar.
The right-hand pilaster bears the line «…А без меня народ неполный» ("...and without me the people are incomplete"), spoken by a character in Platonov's story "The Engine Driver's Wife". The left pilaster carries his name, «АНДРЕЙ ПЛАТОНОВ». Visitors read the words before looking up at the bronze figure.
The statue stands along a main central boulevard in Voronezh and is easy to reach on foot from nearby streets. The small open space around it has no barriers, so you can walk right up to the base at any time.
The quote on the right pilon, "...And without me the people are incomplete," belongs to the hero of Platonov's story "The Machinist's Wife," not to the author himself. The sculptors were Voronezh artists Ivan Dikunov and Elza Pak, with the architectural part by L. Yanovsky, N. Topoyev and E. Solomkin.
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