Bulat Okudzhava is not just a poet, bard, screenwriter, composer. For many generations, Okudzhava was a whole culture, a moral compass, a standard of ethical and human standards. His songs were loved and sang in companies, copied onto tape recorders, performed according to official and more often than not on official occasions. And if in the west Vysotsky is better known as a herald of truth and conscience, then Okudzhava was loved by the Soviet people as a kind, homely, “kitchen” close friend and spiritual guide. His song “Ah, Arbat, my Arbat, you are my Fatherland ...” is known to almost everyone born in the USSR. And she sounded in the Pokrovskie Vorota film - singing Moscow and the Arbat of the 60s. Okudzhava was born on May 9, 1924, lived for a long time on Arbat in the house number 43 and died in 1997. The decision to create the monument was made a week after his death and was personally signed by Boris Yeltsin. The monument depicts Bulat Shalvovich, emerging from the arch of the Arbat courtyard, on the pavement in the shadow of the maple. Translated with Google Translate