A small bronze figure of an old man named Tachkum, the hero of one of the Abkhazian fairy tales, lurked on the embankment near the Brekhalovka cafe. The author of the composition, installed in the summer of 2013, is the Abkhazian sculptor Arkhip Labakhua.
Old Man Tachkum was cunning, lazy and a great inventor. When his wife, tired of her husband's idleness, kicked Tachkum out of the house, he, thanks to cunning and the ability to lie, defeated the giant and became rich.
A resourceful and ironic old man from an Abkhazian folk tale holds a piece of cheese in his right hand, passing it off as a stone from which he squeezes water, thereby he deceived the giant.
The inventive old man relies only on his resourcefulness, and his assistants are not magic objects, but his own ingenuity
The sculpture "Old Man Tachkum" is a monument to the hero of the Abkhazian fairy tale "Tachkum and the Giant".
I think it is a decoration of the embankment. Traditions and wisdom of the people.
The author is the sculptor Arkhip Labahua.