Career
Zhbanov was a soldier at war in Afghanistan.
In the peaceful life he became a city sculptor. He created tiny models of poetical bronze sculptures, which were as “light” as bronze allowed them to be. Almost accidentally one of these sculptures was noticed by the architecture that planned Mychailovsky Avenue. The sculpture was accepted. Then it was followed by another one - “A Smoking Man”. It is a sculptural portrait of Vladimir Golynsky. Another Zhbanov's famous work is a girl with a holey umbrella. This sculpture is the response of its creator to the ridiculous tragedy near the underground station Nemiga which took lives of 53 people, most of them were young girls aged 15-17.
There are a number of his sculptures near the central trade market “Komarovka”. They are “Photographer”, "Baryshnya” with a little dog nearby, “Torgovka”, “Gusi” and “Horse”. There is a bronze sculpture of Russian Baths-man in the yard of the city bath-house.