Monument Toad, Berdyansk

Well, who does not know the famous expression "toad presses"? If you wish to look at this very toad, then you need to go to Berdyansk Zaporizhia region, on the city`s waterfront. She sat, a large and rather, on a granite pedestal and smoking a cigar. On the ring finger on his neck a massive chain, in the clutches of a mobile phone from his pocket a bundle of sticks currency.

His weight is 250 kg, it puts pressure on the heads of those who are with her friends. This is a man and a woman, and even an old man with a child. Their heads are covered with coins, but facial expressions are not happy. Under the weight of its own, they suffer from jealousy and greed. And on the pedestal hanging plate "Envy-vice".

This memorial, at first sight, seems funny, but it is the meaning of what people are exposed to vices - envy and greed. Judging by the inscription on the plate, the monument symbolizes envy. However, the people attributed to her and other vices - greed. Either way it was promoted by the similarity with the famous expression, whether the inscription on it, "In the manufacture of the monument, the toad is not crushed." But when you are beginning to emerge to envy someone, remember it, Berdyansk toad, and vice will be less.

The history of the monument to the toad

The idea of the monument, as well as many others in Berdyansk, belonged to then-mayor Valery Baranov, the author - a local muralist Nikolai Mironenko, the creator of the monument cottagers. Production of the monument was carried out at the expense of local patrons. The bronze figure was cast on the Berdyansk factory "Yuzhgidromash."

Where is the monument to the toad

In October 2007, a monument was erected on the city`s waterfront Berdyansk. Vacationers like to be considered "Toad, which presses" and photographed on her background.

Toad in Berdyansk is not the only monument in Ukraine to celebrate the vice. In the Kherson region, Naked Pier in the city, just installed concrete toad, treating with envy.