Monument to Ivan Kharitonenko outstanding entrepreneurs, established in 1996 in Sumy, located on one of the central squares of the city - Intercession. Successful Sumy and sugar-philanthropist, was one of the richest people in the Russian Empire 19 Art. I. Kharitonenko influenced the development of Sumy - him and his descendants in the city were built schools, hospitals and other infrastructure.

The monument is surrounded by curly iron lights connected by a massive chain. Support fences and caps decorated with coats of arms of the city of lights. This is not the first pedestal, installed after the sugar manufacturer Kharitonenko on this site. The first monument was created A.Opekushin, who is the author of the monument to Mikhail Lermontov in Pyatigorsk and Alexander Pushkin in Moscow. In addition to his creation of the monument also participated the French sculptor A. Croisy, the authorship of which belong to the marble gravestones on the graves of family Kharitonenko at Central City Cemetery Sum. Under his supervision and was cast bronze figure I. Kharitonenko.

The monument was built on donations of city residents. Its opening was held on October 1, 1899 On the front side of the monument was placed a bronze plaque with the inscription "Ivan G. Kharitonenko 1899".

In the 1920s. With the advent of Soviet power in the Sumy region, the monument Kharitonenko destroyed, but instead was set figure of the "leader of the proletariat," Lenin. In 1991, a sculpture of Lenin demolished. Commission concerned with the development of culture in the Sumy city executive committee, it was decided to restore the monument Sumy Maecenas. At home pedestal I. Kharitonenko back in 1997. The sculpture was recreated by Ivan Gerasimovitch local sculptor Anatoly Ivchenko Avramovic.

Today, a monument to VI Kharitonenko - is a vivid reminder of the man, whose noble deeds have experienced times of oblivion and revived in the memory of grateful descendants.