waxen statues

The businessmen - Evheny Sazhin (in the first row) and his son Aleksey, pose near the waxen statues of Lenin and Stalin, Chiefs of the World Proletariat, on the presentation of their Waxen Statues Exhibition in Kyiv, on Wednesday, January 12, 2000. That day the enterprise "Father and Son", started its activity by the opening of the Waxen Statues Exhibition. The exposition consists of 20 figures of the most popular political persons, writers and artists of Russia and former USSR. They were not showed in Ukraine earlier. The exhibition will last for a month, then it will be showed all over Ukraine. The Sazhins consider that those 20 statues will become the basis of their private Museum of Waxen Figures. According to the State Committee, some 52% of Ukrainian population make their private business. Photo by Victor Pobedinsky/ UNIAN