Monument Lushpa
On the Day of Sumy September 7, 2013 at the entrance to the children`s park "Fairy Tale" opened monument to Mikhail Lushpa, which is considered an honorary citizen of the city. Located sculpture on Prospect Shevchenko.
Place, by the way, not chosen by chance. Shevchenko Avenue (in Soviet times - Karl Marx) was the first project of Mr. Lushpa, and a children`s park - the last.
The sculptural monument - a granite boulder height of 5 meters, and sits next to a bench honorary citizen of Sumy. Lushpa monument is the work of sculptor Kharkiv Eldaniza Gurbanov, who works for the townspeople know "Funny sumchanyn" and monument Hussars .
Immediately after the installation of the monument took Lushpa omen: if the shoe rubbed thrice Michael Panasovych, you can get an apartment in Sumy.
On the same day in the city opened a monument to Anton Chekhov .
Who is Michael Lushpa
Michael Lushpa was the first secretary of the Sumy city committee of the Communist Party. During his work contains much rozbuduvalos and evolved. In Sumy appeared trolleys, built a theater , a children`s park "Fairy Tale" park "Friendship" , railway and road stations, were built new neighborhoods, restored Trinity Cathedral .
But Mr. Lushpa had a good reputation and outside Sumy. Many efforts he has made to the restoration of churches, monuments of history and culture in Putivl , Okhtyrka , Romny and Glukhov .
How to get there
Monument Lushpa in Sumy is located at the entrance to the park "Fairy Tale" on the part of boulevard Shevchenko. Nearby is a public transport "Cinema" Friendship ".
