The left-hander sculpture

"Without any apparent hard work

there is no talents,

nor geniuses"

Dmitry I. Mendeleev

To inspire the working and younger generations, a sculpture celebrating the talent, originality and hard work of the Russian people should be installed within the company premises. The company's management addressed the staff of ERIS Group of Companies with such a proposal.

Following a brief discussion, the work on bringing the idea to life began. A survey was conducted among the company's employees to find out what kind of symbol of Russian labour prowess it is.

The character of Nikolai Leskov's character ‘Levsha/ A Left-hander’, familiar to everyone since school, was chosen as the hero. The author's depiction of a lefthanded person is a personification of the Russian working class. They are strong, talented, and deeply patriotic. “We are committed to our homeland,” was Levsha's response to the Englishmen's offer to stay in England.

The sculptor of the composition was Pavel Kirillovich Medvedev, a member of the Union of Artists of Russia, a laureate of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs Prize in the field of literature and art, a laureate of the State Prize of the Udmurt Republic, an Honoured Art Worker of the Udmurt Republic. It was the sculptor who was assigned the difficult task of translating the staff's thoughts into a concrete image.

The company's team took part in each stage of the sculptural composition creation from the idea to the opening, so ‘Levsha’ became a collective creation of ERIS Group employees.

On August 20^th in 2016, the opening ceremony of the sculptural composition ‘Levsha - a symbol of Russian labour mastery’ took place on the territory of “ERIS” Company. The guests were the Company's employees with their families.

On 3^rd October in 2016, students from the Chaikovsky Technical College of Industrial Technologies and Management were initiated into the world of work.