A monument to Ostap Bender is seen in Melitopol, Zaporizhzhia region, partially controlled by pro-Russian troops, Ukraine. Ostap Bender is a fictional con man in the novels The Twelve Chairs (1928) and The Little Golden Calf (1931) written by Soviet authors Ilya Ilf and Yevgeni Petrov.
- Categories: Environmental Issues
- Location: Melitopol, Zaporozhye region, Ukraine
- Event date: 19.07.2022
- Date published: 20.07.2022
- Author: Dmitry Makeev
- Credit: Sputnik
- Source: Sputnik
- Original: Digital
- Media: JPEG, 5568x3712px, 6.4Mb
- Job-ID: f5f1e9a72739c47