The Russian author, poet, and Nobel Prize laureate Ivan Bunin was born in Voronezh in 1870 and so it is unsurprising to find a statue of him in the city. This monument depicts Bunin just before he left Russia, sat on a fallen tree trunk with a dog next to him. The monument was unveiled in 1995 on the 125th anniversary of his birth and the area around the monument was turned into the Buninsky Skver (Bunin Gardens).