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A monument to Mikhail Pugovkin may soon appear in Rostov. The widow of the famous actor Irina Pugovkina is raising money for it. At the end of January, she transported the People's Artist Museum from Crimea to Rostov. RR patrolman Sergei Gritsuk met with the owner of the museum and found out how she wanted the monument to her husband to look.

“The author of the monument is the famous sculptor Dmitry Lyndin: He proposed to immortalize Mikhail Pugovkin in the image of artilleryman Yashka from the film “Wedding in Malinovka.” A film strip with the inscription “People’s Artist of the USSR” and a catchphrase from the film will curl around the artist’s feet.

The model of the future sculpture is already ready: the sculpture should be human-sized on a half-meter pedestal. The actor’s widow, Irina Pugovkina, told me that the installation of the monument has already been agreed upon with the city authorities, the only question is where to find one and a half million rubles - that’s how much is needed to fill the sculpture.

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This will be the second monument to the artist. The first one stands on the platform of the station in Kharkov. Pugovkin is depicted in the role of Father Fyodor from the comedy “12 Chairs”. In total, Mikhail Ivanovich has 148 films.

Pugovkin played his first role before the war - in 1940. The aspiring actor just turned 17 years old. The next year the young man went to war, giving himself an extra year. At the end of 1942 he was discharged after being wounded. From the age of 43, Mikhail began actively acting in films. The most famous paintings: “Wedding in Malinovka”, “Operation “Y” and other adventures of Shurik”, “Ivan Vasilyevich changes profession”, “Sportloto-82”, “12 chairs”. Mikhail Ivanovich died in 2008 due to exacerbation of diabetes. 5 years later, the widow Irina Pugovkina opened a museum dedicated to the actor near Yalta in Livadia.

The new Crimean authorities did not want to support Pugovkina’s initiative and the museum moved to a place where rent was cheaper. In Rostov, it is located on the first floor of the Rostselmash Palace of Culture. There are costumes of his film characters, props from filming, awards and photographs of the actor. There is a free film club every day. The choice fell on our city, since the actor served in the Don during the war, Vladimir Zaichenko, chairman of the museum’s board of trustees, told me.

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Pugovkin finished his service at the age of 18 with the rank of senior sergeant and the position of squad commander. After being wounded, the actor miraculously did not remain disabled, says Vladimir Zaichenko.

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So far, we have been able to show Rostov residents no more than a quarter of all collected exhibits. But the exhibition will soon expand: another room is being prepared specifically for the museum.

And this coming Saturday, the Pugovkin Museum will hold a one-day exhibition of photographs of the legendary artist on the city embankment.