The first Russian monument with a TV was erected at the Novosibirsk cemetery Instead of a photo of a dead man, a video with moments of his life is broadcast on the screen of the building, Sib.fm reports.
The structure is a crypt with two niches: an urn with ashes is located at the bottom, and a liquid crystal monitor that plays a video is located above about the deceased. The idea of such a monument came from the engineer from Naberezhnye Chelny Marsel Mukhametshin – he was afraid to lose the memory of two deceased relatives.
In 2018, he presented a project of a building with a TV at an exhibition in Yekaterinburg, where representatives of the Novosibirsk crematorium became interested in him. The cemetery employees are confident that the digital monument better preserves and conveys the real appearance of a person – so the descendants will be able to see what their relatives were like during their lifetime.
Earlier, experts noted that Russian entrepreneurs are interested in the funeral business. Amid high mortality from coronavirus, requests for the construction of crematoria in the country have grown from less than five in 2019 to about 20 in 2021.