Vladimir Vysotsky and Marina Vlady monument, Bronze monument in central Yekaterinburg, Russia.
The Vladimir Vysotsky and Marina Vlady monument is a bronze group set on a low rectangular base before a wall near the entrance of the Antey shopping centre on Krasnoarmeyskaya Street. Vysotsky stands holding an acoustic guitar across his body; Vlady sits on the end of a dark metal bench beside him, her legs crossed at the ankle. The bronze is dark brown with lighter patina in the recesses.
The idea for the monument came from Andrei Gavrilovsky, with architect Alexander Silnitsky designing it and the smithy of the village of Novoalexeyevskoye in Sverdlovsk Oblast casting the bronze. It was timed to Vysotsky's birthday on 25 January and agreed with his son Nikita. The sculpture was installed on 31 January 2006 and unveiled on 5 February 2006, though some sources give 3 February.
The bronze group shows Vysotsky playing a song for Marina Vlady, his third wife, who sits on the bench beside him. The idea was agreed with his son Nikita, and the singer is shown as a smiling young man rather than a stern rebel. At the 2006 unveiling, friend Valery Zolotukhin said it was one of the few Vysotsky monuments he genuinely liked.
The sculpture stands at the main entrance of the Antey shopping and entertainment centre at Krasnoarmeyskaya Street 10, facing the Bolshoy Ural hotel where Vysotsky stayed during tours. It is a street-level bronze group on a low base, viewable at any hour without entering the building.
The monument shows a young Vysotsky, but he had not yet met Marina Vlady at that age: he was then married to Iza Zhukova. The sculptor Alexander Silnitsky designed the figures, cast in bronze in the Sverdlovsk region.
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