Monument Tail
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Monument Tail appeared in Tula few years ago, but directly the tail in the form of sculpture is missing. The monument is a picture of a small dragon without a tail, which is a symbol of the successful completion of the session the students. This completes the picture of the Gradebook in the clutches of dragon.

Monument small, about 0, 3 meters high and weighs about 10 kilograms. Sculpture dragon cast out of copper coin, which, in common among the students accept, able to bring good luck on exams. To produce this monument used 91 coin.

The tail is set Monument near the walls of the Tula State University on Lenin Prospekt, 92. The idea of ​​the monument and its voplotitelem in life is a former student of the University of Tula, businessman, publisher and poet Igor Zolotov.

The discovery of this is not quite the usual monument took place on September 8, 2007. This event, students accepted to "hooray" as a monument dedicated to the main problem of many students - the "tail" of the various academic disciplines.

If you make a monument of a ritual, it will bring the student in his academic life is luck. We must come to a baby dragon before an important exam and used his tail or throw a coin or a pet lizard. To successfully defend a diploma, it is necessary to rub the record book. To successfully apply for a job, it is necessary to lay flowers at the monument. It is said that to be photographed with the mascot is a big success. Tula newlyweds come to the baby dragon to perform their rituals. If the groom scratch his tummy dragon, his wife will be good. If the bride lizard pat on the head, the husband is intelligent.

After the monument was erected, it had already more than once to steal. Once it happened in October 2007. Then the Tula police for several days looking for the kidnappers, who obviously was very necessary luck during exams. The monument was eventually found in an urn near the school building number 20 on the main avenue and returned to its rightful place.

In May 2010, again it was an attempt to kidnap the monument. But he survived and was for a time transferred to the university building, and then again returned to its rightful place.

In connection with the emergence of this kind of monument in Tula, a new holiday - holiday Tail, which is celebrated by students under the motto "Hvostov.net" on the first Sunday of September.

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