Effervescent sense of humor is a distinct feature of Ukrainian people.
That is why coming to Ukraine you will see a great variety of original and unusual monuments that will give you good mood and make you smile.

Berdyansk, a resort town in Zaporizhia region, can be by right considered to be one of the centers of humoristic sculptures.
Here one can see a monument to greed presented by a big 250-kilogram frog with a cell phone, a bankroll, a cigar, a golden chain and an inscription: “Greed is a sin”.

Only here you will see monuments to gossips (in the form of gigantic bronze ears), a bull-calf-provider, a plumber, carefree childhood (in the form of tricycle) and a magic arm-chair of wish fulfillment. Moreover, there is a monument to standing in a spicy pose summer residents cultivating a land (if you look at the bottom of the monument you will see a big potato beetle dragging a scripture: “Citizens of Berdyansk, let us maintain ourselves!”).
Vinnytsia and Poltava will show you monuments to “granite of science” (a granite stone with books and an owl, a symbol of wisdom). Moreover, Poltava is place where you can see a monument to “halushka” (dumpling), that is a national Ukrainian meal, and a Pig, “eternal provider of Ukrainian people”.

Visiting Uzhhorod you will see a monument to salted and smoked fore end (shovdar), that is a favorite Ukrainian dish.

There is a monument to kangaroo in Dnipropetrovsk.
Donetsk is famous for monuments to Don Quixote, a half-naked girl “Youth”, a mother (holding a baby in her child), an electrician and a football.

Kharkiv will show you monuments to the first teacher, a romantic kiss and a samovar.
Kamianka-Dniprovska urban village (Zaporizhia region) has a monument to a tomato because local tomatoes are considered to be tasty especially. Kherson region that is considered to a motherland of the sweetest watermelons will show you a monument to a watermelon (Novovorontsivka urban village).

Town of Nezhin (Kiev region) has a monument to a cucumber (Nezhin salt cucumbers are reputed the best in the country)!

Coming to Lviv you will see monuments to Pablo Picasso in his shorts, Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch (a forefather of “masochism”) located near one of the most popular restaurants; an oil lamp and a bicycle (the last one is standing near a town hall hinting local officials at exchanging their expensive cars for democratic and ecologically clean mean of transport).
Odessa region is proud of monuments to the twelfth chair taken from a famous “12 chairs” novel written by Ilf and Petrov; a gigantic robot, a father and a son “watching a mother” (situated near one of local cafes) and an orange that played a key role in the city development (citizens of Odessa presented a Russian emperor a few carts of oranges so that he gave some money to build a port. Seeing such a “tasty bribe” the emperor could not resist).

Chernivtsi has a monument to unknown corruptionist. You will see a sculpture of a man’s hand giving a coin to stretching hands of another man. (This is a place where 200 years ago people recorded a fact of political corruption. Representatives of Austrian empire presented jewels to a Russian count in exchange of appending Chernivtsi region territory to Austro-Hungary).
Considering the fact that at present time corruption is wide-spread phenomenon the monument is wheel-mounted!
The capital of Ukraine, Kiev, will show you numerous funny sculptures. There is an entire “Landscape alley” inhabited by fairy-tale characters and beasts (moreover, walking along city streets you can also see amazing monuments to an animated hero “Hedgehog in the Fog” and a favorite fairy-tale personage Buratino made of old wood).

There are also monuments to a chair (a bench with small chairs), the first electric tram, a reviving burnt match, opening chestnuts (this tree is a symbol of the city), a coffee grinder, and a dustcart, the only one in the world.

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