Moscow Stray Dog Commemoration Anniversary

Photograph by A. Savin

Today is the 5th anniversary of the unveiling of the bronze statue above.

Malchik was a stray dog who lived at an underground railway station in Moscow. One winter evening, a 22-year-old woman was passing through the station with her pet Staffordshire Bull Terrier when Malchik barked at them. The woman removed a kitchen knife from her purse and killed Malchick by stabbing him six times. The woman was arrested, tried, and underwent one year of psychiatric treatment.

Following public outrage over the incident, money was raised and this bronze statue made which now sits in Mendeleyevskaya station.


As far as I know this is the only public statue dedicated to an unowned stray dog.