>>8861 no goodgrief, it's a statue of Tsaar Peter The Great (Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov) on the corner of Veerhaven-Westerkade. It was build by Leonid Baranov in 1997.
Hope the guy that designed this got an award. If you're going to make something functional, might as well make it beautiful also. Is that a statue of Hans Christian Andersen in the foreground?