Cat Day is celebrated on the first day of spring in Russia.
Monuments to tailed cats in different parts of the country.
1) Cat Musa in the Peter the Great Botanical Garden in St. Petersburg. They say she lived in the greenhouses for about 30 years. They recall ‘her independent character, discipline and excellent ability to deal with visitors and the press’.
2) Cat Mukha in Ples, Ivanovo region. She lived with artist Vitaly Panchenko and died saving her kittens from a yard dog.
3) A heating battery with a cat at the gatehouse of Samarskaya GRES.
4) Cats in Zelenogradsk.
5) Square of Siberian cats in Tyumen. After the lifting of the blockade of Leningrad was filled with rats, there were no cats left in the city on the Neva as they had been eaten. From Siberia to the north-west thousands of cats were sent to the rescue.
6) To a lab cat in St. Petersburg. ‘The thought of physiologists is simple, and all poets agree with it, that the symbol of the tranquillity of the planet is the tranquillity of the cat.’
7) To Semyon the cat in Murmansk. The cat was lost in 1987 on the way from Moscow to Murmansk, but suddenly appeared on the doorstep in 1993.
8) To a scientist cat in Orenburg.
9) To cats and dogs injured by cars, Kostroma. There is a piggy bank next to the monument to help the animal shelter.
10) Cats stealing sausages in Abakan.
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