the city of sadka. 264 years ago, count stroganov founded a cast iron smelting and iron-making plantthis site. emperor alexander i visited sadka, and this had a positive effect on the development of industry. here it is, this very industry across the road, from the old st. nicholas church. to say that the city residents are delighted with such a neighborhood, well, that would be a lie, well, what can you do, where to work, what to live on? the city stands at the confluence of stormy rivers, the big and small garden, unusual figures along the embankment - these are gifts from young sculptors who came here to paint in the open air, by the way, a good idea that can become a tradition: if you came to paint in the open air, then leave your creation to the locals, zurab konstantinovich, your native expanses are waiting for you, well, what are you all doing? to moscow and to moskvuta, look how many untouched places. there are many amazing things in this small town, it seems like it doesn't suggest anything, here's a street with a loud and unpretentious name, communist, it's all made up of c

i also sculpted warmi, then an attempt to enter the stroganov school in moscow, it didn't work out.nd a d in drawing . it didn't work out in moscow, but they told me that in leningrad, if you go to a construction site, they register you. in leningrad, i came to build a research institute, and there, yes, i was single. they registered me, please, and i could work, so i worked there, eh, as a land buyer, a pipelayer, and in the evening i went to the kirov palace, there was a wonderful sculpture studio, they put a model there, a figure, a portrait, so i worked there, i studied, and then entered the serov school, this is the oldest school, here i cut out the head of hannibal, polished it, it is black, and the body is made of red granite, i began to look for which africa this hannibal was from, even here there is no reliable information, one maracan, so my friend, you see, had a son, came up, well, just the spitting image of pushkin, so i decided that he was from the northern peoples of africa, hannibal, and i stuck to this type. my good friend, vladimir sergeyevich vasilkovsky, a famous