The originator of the project is a young sculptor, Andrey Tyrtyshnikov.

The statue will appear on Myasnitskaya Street next to the only building in the city he designed – the one owned by the Federal Service for State Statistics.

It took Le Corbusier almost 10 years to erect the building at Myasnitskaya Street. It was constructed according to Le Corbusier’s celebrated “five points of architecture” and boasts a terraced roof, a free façade, an open floor-plan, long strips of windows, and reinforced concrete stilts as foundations.

However, practically nothing is left from the former splendor, as the state officials who “inherited” the house separated the large, open space into corridors and small offices, filling up the large surrounding yard with extra buildings.

The sculptor said he did not even know where to place the monument, as there was virtually no free space near the building, as quoted by Izvestia newspaper.

Even so, the monument of Le Corbusier will be a good addition to Moscow’s collection of bronze and stone.

No one can tell how many monuments the Russian capital can boast, as the last inventory was performed as far back as Soviet times. According to various estimates, there are about 1,000 monuments, among them 68 statues of Lenin, seven of Pushkin, five each of Herzen, Lomonosov, and Leo Tolstoy, and four each of Peter the Great, Maxim Gorky, and Friedrich Engels.

In recent years, there have been several outstanding monuments installed in Moscow streets, such as a composition of sculptures dubbed “Children – victims of adult vices” and a monument of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson.