"It would be better if they painted over the drug ad." Nizhny Novgorod lost its Chip 'n' Dale graffiti.

Street art featuring cartoon characters appeared in 2019. A Yekaterinburg artist depicted the chipmunks as characters from the film "Zhmurki" (Dead Man's Bluff). Slava PtrkDuring that period, he was working on a series of films that combined characters from various films and cartoons. For Nizhny Novgorod, he chose "Zhmurki," which was filmed in the city.

"[Street art appeared] in the courtyard where Seryozha and Simon from Zhmurki arrived to meet the Doctor (Serebryakov)," explainNile then the artist chooses the location.

Now from cartoon animals on the wall of house No. 21 on Bolshaya Pecherskaya Two black silhouettes remained. It's unknown who ruined the street art.

"It would be better if they painted over the drug ads all over the city," "Destroying is not creating; it doesn't take much strength or intelligence," "Whoever was bothered by this drawing is only good at causing mischief," — the Nizhny Novgorod residents reasoned.

Graffiti is a form of street art. Recently, this "folk art" has been destroyed all over the city. A year ago in Voronezh painted overand graffiti with an image of the Kursk submarine, which Putin refused to save at the dawn of his presidency. A little earlier рa scandal erupted due to the destruction of the Rock and Roll Walk of Fame - portraits of Viktor Tsoi, Yegor Letov, Igor Talkov and other deceased rock stars were painted on the wall of the Khlam bar. The day before, Kamensk-Uralsky зpainted graffiti depicting the film character Danila Bagrov. Sometimes in Russian cities, it's not just street art that gets destroyed, but нreal masterpiecesIn return, the authorities came up with the idea of ​​creating мUrals, where the “heroes of the SVO” stand side by side with the heroes of the war of 1941–1945.