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A statue in honor of Abramovich in East Siberia · 2008-12-12 16:24
A statue in honor of Roman Abramovich has gone up in East Siberia after the Chelsea FC owner topped a poll to find the person who best personifies "a real Englishman".
Residents in the East Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk were asked in the poll, "Who do you consider a real Englishman"?
Some 30,000 people took part, and Chelsea FC owner Abramovich, 42, comfortably defeated Winston Churchill, James Bond, and David Beckham, among others.
The organizers of the poll, the local branch of the Russian-British Cultural Association, had planned to erect the one-meter statue in the centre of the city but they have not received permission from the mayor’s office to do so. Now it will be placed in the city’s James Shark English-theme pub.
The monument is made of plaster covered with bronze paint. The sculptor, Konstantin Zinich, said he was particularly pleased with the way Roman Abramovich’s trademark stubble had turned out, RIA Novosti informs.
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