Пушкин һәйкәле, Bronze monument in central Khabarovsk, Russia

The Pushkin monument in Khabarovsk is a dark bronze standing figure of Alexander Pushkin in a long coat, his hands clasped in front holding a small rectangular object. It stands on a tall pedestal of grey stone blocks with a line of faint gold lettering near the top, and a low metal railing with circular rings runs in front. The monument stands in the square of the Khabarovsk Pedagogical Institute.

A concrete statue of Pushkin, ordered in Moscow in 1935 by the institute's first director Vasily Vishnyakov, arrived in Khabarovsk in parts in 1936–1937 and was found forgotten in storage in 1949. It was installed in 1950; in 1971 the pedestal was replaced and the statue moved closer to the park. In 1990 sculptors Nadezhda Ivleva and S. V. Nikolenko remade it in hammered copper.

The figure stands in the square of the Khabarovsk pedagogical institute, and its authorship remains disputed: some attribute it to a Soviet sculptor of the 1930s, others to a Japanese prisoner of war who worked on the institute's dormitory in the late 1940s. Sculptor Vladimir Baburov recorded a worker's account that a Japanese prisoner moulded the statue from a photograph in the magazine Ogonyok.

The monument stands in the square of the former Khabarovsk Pedagogical Institute, now part of Pacific State University, close to the city centre. A low metal railing with circular rings runs in front of the grey stone pedestal, so the figure is best viewed from the path rather than approached directly. The gold lettering on the pedestal's upper section is faint and hard to read up close.

The monument's authorship is disputed. One account holds that a Japanese prisoner of war sculpted it around 1949 from a photograph in the magazine Ogonyok, using clay covered with paper and then concrete; another attributes it to a Soviet sculptor of the 1930s. In 1971 a crane sling broke off the head, which was restored by student Eduard Barsegov.