Excellent Square Siberian cats in Tyumen

Square Siberian cat - a real attraction Tyumen! It established twelve sculptures of cats, which are cast in iron and covered with gold paint. This monument appeared in memory of war heroes cats! Surprised? < Website tells the story of an amazing monument to Siberian cats.



The author is the architect of cat statues Marina Alchibaeva. The idea of ​​creating the park is connected with the years of the Great Patriotic War - namely, the blockade of Leningrad. In those difficult days, when people began to massively die of hunger, many have begun to destroy the cats to use their meat for food. < Cats thus saved thousands of lives, but in the besieged city bred numerous flocks of rats devoured and prior to scarce food supplies, cause enormous damage to the paintings in the Hermitage, and even gnaw sleeping people noses.





Huge swarms of rats tried to press with the help of technology, including tanks, firing a weapon, but such measures have been unsuccessful. Immediately after the break the blockade, local authorities have decided to bring out the Yaroslavl region several cars clouded cats, which were considered among the best in the world of rat-catchers. In Leningrad, arrived for cats lined up in long lines, all the inhabitants of the city, of course, is not enough.





Then a few more times cats imported from various Siberian cities, including from Tyumen, just as it was delivered to the northern capital of Russia, more than five thousand animals. Since cats rescued from Siberia to Leningrad by voracious rats, and today more than seventy cats guarding the Hermitage from rodents, and they have a special

«Hermitage passport".





























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