much do we know about our little brothers?Do we know the possibility of pets?Take, for example, cats.Scientists have determined that members of the cat family can travel within 600-700 kilometers from the house.But among purring creatures there are real champions.Lost cats are returned to owners in another city or even country.One such hero immortalized Murmansk.Why is a monument cat Semen in Murmansk?
Homeward
prototype cat bronze made a real character, belonged to the family Sinishin.The couple returned from the south via Moscow, lost unlucky pet in the city.Search animal tried to Moscow - a great city, and there is the probability of finding a pet is zero.
What was surprising goal after six and a half years later, tired, hungry, emaciated cat appeared on their doorstep.Animal meowed loudly, and when he admitted to the house, followed by a bowl of food and satisfy hunger, nestled on the TV.
legendary Simon walked about two thousand kilometers.It is this distance separates the Murmansk and Moscow.The event could not go unnoticed, and in 1994 a traveler wrote newspaper "Murmansk bulletin».Later, the cat took off in a short film.
long time this story was considered a legend, but journalists managed to find a mistress purring Alevtina Mikhailovna Sinishin.The woman said that for many years with her husband, they are resigned to the loss of a pet, and the return of seeds became husband and wife real surprise.
Adventure amazing animal does not leave indifferent journalists, filmmakers and just indifferent people.Admiring devotion cat native house journalist for the newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda" has presented the couple with his book autographed.
Monument cat Semen Murmansk history
idea of creating a sculpture belongs reporter Dmitry Katchalov.The journalist suggested to the authorities to get a kind of symbol of the city, like the Siskin-Pyzhik in St. Petersburg.
The idea was supported, but the image of the capital of the Arctic is not immediately determined.Enthusiasts offering cast in bronze mythical deity Cthulhu, boy, adhering to the tongue frozen hill, reindeer, local recipes cod liver oil.However, the majority of citizens voted seed.Murmanchane chosen model of the monument and partly paid for the installation.
victory in the competition of works of masters of Hope project won Vinyukovoy from Moscow, on the basis of which the monument was cast cat Semen in Murmansk.
Opening of the monument with a sculpture triumphantly pulled off the web 2 October 2013.The event was timed to the Day of the city.The ceremony was attended by the head of administration Andrew Sysoev and the mayor of Murmansk Alexey Veller.At twelve o'clock the townspeople saw sitting on a bench with a well-fed cat knapsack on his back.Since then, a monument to the cat Semen in Murmansk is considered open.
Bronze Semen does not look like your brother live, because to maintain this weight after a long journey impossible.And bags of belongings in cats can not be.Nevertheless, the sculpture caused great interest among the visitors to the event, especially in children.
Unfortunately, not invited to the opening of a real cat owner.Perhaps it was because few people believed in the authenticity of the story.But Alevtina Mikhailovna not mad.Together with her grandson, she participated in the vote, and, although she preferred the work of another master selected a monument cat Semen Murmansk objections to a woman does not matter.
Description
sculpture monument not only perpetuates the image of a cat-traveler, as symbolized devotion to pet owners.Small sculptures made of bronze and covered with a patina.Weight Bronze Seeds of one hundred and twenty kilos, height - more than one meter.Animal sitting on a bench length of 1.6 meters.Stalls decorated with the inscription: "The cat Simon."
Monument cat Semen in Murmansk (pictured below) - is an invitation to sit and think about eternity, to share their problems with the seasoned experience of life humming.
Belief
After the opening of the monument to Murmansk residents immediately began to whisper in your ear Bronze traveler dreams come true.Belief was born at the opening ceremony.The first shared dreams rulers of the city, then the cat kids occupied.It will come true if the hidden, time will tell.And it is this important?The main thing that was formed around a bronze cat aura of mystery, as befits a city sculpture.
Monument cat Semen in Murmansk: where
symbol of the capital of the Polar region is located near Lake Semenov.This is an amazing place that combines nature and civilization.Around the pond is a park of culture and rest, where you can eat, take a ride on the boat, experience the thrill of the rides.
As the name cat is consonant with the name of the lake, some may think that the object is named in honor of the seeds.In fact it is not.The lake is named after the White Sea Seeds Korzheva living in these parts long before the first buildings and wharves.
Monument cat Semen in Murmansk (Address: Beach Lake Semenov) established in one of the favorite places of rest of the townspeople.Nearby street - Gagarin, Alexander and the prospectus Heroes of Severomorsk.
Other cats travelers
In Murmansk, a monument to the cat Semen.But the prototype of the hero - is not the only animal to break the distance.So, in 2012, residents of Rostov-na-Donu lost cat Barsika in Krasnodon (Ukraine).The animal returned a month later.Purring walked a distance of 200 kilometers, crossed the Ukrainian-Russian border.
In England, the cat returned back home three weeks later.Pet ran 70 kilometers through the woods.The length of the way home purring creatures from the Netherlands amounted to 150 kilometers.Such feats repeated cats in France and the United States.Pearce found the hosts after their arrival in Oklahoma.It is noteworthy that the animal never before been in this state.
Research
cats amazing ability to navigate in space experts have studied in Germany and the United States.The Germans drove purring in closed boxes around the city, and then released.The subjects easily finds its way into his own home.Then scientists complicated task: cats not only taken out of town, but let animals through the maze.The results exceeded all expectations: 98% of the subjects coped with a puzzle.And cats are not just chosen out of the maze, but did so through the exit that leads home.
Similar results were Americans.In experiments ethologists US animals have not seen the road because fast asleep, but when we woke up, orient yourself without problems.
Conducted experiments confirmed the ability of cats to choose the right road, but do not explain the reasons for this behavior.One of the hypotheses - the presence of iron in the tissues humming interacting with Earth's magnetic field.Their bodies are a likeness of the compass.To confirm the scientific hypothesis on the cat wore a magnet, after which the animal had problems with orientation.
above cases show how little people know about the other creatures.We should be more attentive to our younger brothers.Maybe then the coexistence of living organisms on Earth would be more constructive.
