A monument to a mother – In – law as people jokingly called it. It’s an exact copy of Tyrannosaurus Rex. It was placed in 1989 as the symbol of Tula’s exotarium. Exotarium is the zoo of reptiles and amphibians. . People love this dinosaur and they dress it in different funny clothes. And in this exotarium there is the unique in Russia – serpentarium. It’s the place where biologists try to breed and revive disappearing kinds of snakes . парк йюрк
A monument to Leo Tolstoy – a famous Russian writer. Everybody knows his famous “War and Peace”. This monument is located in Tolstoy’s square. And in front of him there is a liquor factory and that’s why people called this monument “Leo Tolstoy is going to buy vodka”. This is the monument to a tail. ‘Tails’ students call their “educational arrears”. It means if you failed the exam, you have one more chance to take it and pass it. This monument was placed in 2007. Many students come here every day when they have exams. They bring coopers and rub this lizard to take a little luck on exam. This is the monument to Tula’s honey cake. Tula’s factory of the production of honey cakes is famous all over Russia. It’s two meters high and weighs more than a ton. Of course you can not taste this honey cake but you can take couple pictures with it and touch the history. The monument to Demidov. Demidov was Russian industrialist who founded the Demidov industrial dynasty. Nikita built one of the first metallurgical factories in Tula. Except for this monument which was installed in 1996, a museum is devoted to him in Tula. And people called this monument “Rambo”, I hope you guessed why. “Levsha and steel flea” is a well-known story by Nickolay Leskov. It tells us about left-handed craftsman, who outperformed his English colleagues by providing a clockwork steel flea they’d made with horseshoes. This is the monument to Vladimir Lenin – the leader of Soviet people. Every city and town and village in Russia has such kind of monument from the Soviet Union. All Soviet pupils knew: “Lenin lived, Lenin is alive, Lenin will live forever!” Of course now these monuments are just a part of history that’s why people don’t dismantle them. 00:00:14 Leo Tolstoy 00:00:47 Tail 00:01:18 Lenin 00:01:47 Honey-cake 00:02:08 Mother-in-law 00:02:42 Demidov 00:03:10 Levsha
Lefty 1964 Levsha English & Russian subtitles Russian animation
Watch 347 eus for other eastblock & Welsh commisioned & German & Dutch animations and dailymotion.com/eus347/1 for animations blocked by youtube. Subtitles can be chosen and activated with button at bottom screen. Animation directed by Ivan Ivanov-Vano & Vladimir Danilevich, scenarion Ivan Ivanov Vano after the tale by Nikolai Leskova LEFTY BEING THE TALE OF CROSS-EYED LEFTY OF TULA AND THE STEEL FLEA by Nikolai Leskov From the compilation “The Enchanted Wanderer and Other Stories” 1881