Half of the sculptures returned to the author

Almost half of the sculptures installed in Petropavlovsk, returned to their author. However, for external dissimilarity Petropavlovsk city administration declared fit only 12 of the 34 works.

Sculptures were criticized as soon as they become available. "If I were a teacher, you would have bet the" top three "for such work of the student," - says the artist Valery Krestnikov. "I am offended by the shoes of Anna Akhmatova. It for anything in the world would would suit those shoes" - echoes the artist Vera Gavrilko.

The author of the sculptures do not agree with this assessment. According to him, among the critics no sculptor. However, he acknowledged that his work "was done in a hurry." And as the main expert of the Department of Architecture and Construction of Petropavlovsk Andrei Popov, signed the documents for the refund.

Kazybek Satybaldin tries to deal with a reward. Each author assessed his sculpture of six thousand dollars. According to him, for all the work he had to pay about $ 260 thousand.