A monument to Ostap Bender, a con man and antihero who first appeared in the novel The Twelve Chairs written by Soviet authors Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov and released in 1928.
- Location: Elista, Republic of Kalmikya, Russia
- Event date: 23.05.2009
- Date published: 24.05.2009
- Author: Sergey Venyavsky
- Credit: Sputnik
- Source: Sputnik
- Original: Digital
- Media: JPEG, 3000x1866px, 1.8Mb