The monument to the plumber is located in Rybinsk on the Volga embankment in front of a passing of the municipal enterprise "Vodokanal". A monument to the representative of the profession appeared here in 2009. On the eve of the celebration of the 110th anniversary of the company, the management decided to order the monument novice sculptor. For the manufacture of the monument in the household was collected enough scrap metal. Image plumbing was cast in bronze in the aviation and technology Academy. Thus, in Rybinsk did this "tamer wastewater", immediately nicknamed the monument half plumbers.

The author of the monument is a young inhabitant of Rybinsk A. Khmelev. 25-year-old engineer graduated from the Rybinsk art school. For him, the monument to the plumber was sculpted debut. The customer made a clay sketch of Alexander. And after a few months of near passing "Vodokanal" appeared on the site a monument radiant plumber. To this order, Alexander painted portraits, landscapes, genre paintings. Fame came to Alexander with the opening of the monument.

The monument depicts a plumber on the belt sitting in a sewer manhole with wrench in hand. The idea of such a rather unusual monument owned by the Director of "Vodokanal". Interestingly, the bronze plumbing, painting on the promenade, there is a prototype, unlike his other brothers (in Russia about fifty). This is a very real person, whose name is Vyacheslav Polunin. Sixteen years Vyacheslav Polunin works in the "canal". He began his professional career with the post simple locksmith, today he holds the position of head of the section for maintenance of the Sewerage networks. Now his colleagues call "obrotowym Nikolaitch". Vyacheslav Nikolaevich specially posed and a sewer manhole, and in the artist. They say that was very similar – bronze plumber and live Poronin – per person. But in "Vodokanal" note that the monument was erected all the legendary tamers wastewater and not to a specific person.

Notable is the fact that in less than a year plumber bronze was one of the main attractions of the city. Every day on the Playground, which features a character-the housing and communal services worker, receives numerous citizens and tourists. Among the citizens firmly entrenched tradition if to hug bronze figure that is chosen from a manhole, all the domestic issues will not bother you. But it can be done only during working hours, as the monument standing on the guarded territory of the municipal enterprise. But if you have the desire to get rid of communal evils will always find a way to be near Rybinsk Nikolaitch.

A separate topic is cover at hand plumbing. It flaunts a double-headed Russian eagle. This can only be seen in Rybinsk.