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Newly renamed A.S. Pushkin Sheremetyevo Airport gets a monument to the groundbreaking poet
Source: Meduza
Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International Airport was recently renamed in honor of the poet Alexander Pushkin. To celebrate the change, officials installed a monument to Pushkin inside the airport on June 5. Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky participated in the monument’s unveiling ceremony. The sculpture itself, created by Alexander Burganov, portrays the poet reciting a poem aloud, the airport’s press service explained. The spine of the book in the poet’s hand features a hidden QR code that allows travelers to download an audiobook of Pushkin’s works. The sculpture joins at least 11 other major monuments to Pushkin in the Russian capital alone.
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