A dead Russian woman identified as Rita Shameeva has been given a 5ft high tombstone in the shape of her favourite iPhone in Ufa, Russai. It is gathered that the tribute was installed the 25-year old’s father, Rais Shameev long before her death in January 2016.

The tribute is made out of basalt and designed in the shape of a black iPhone shows a picture of Shameeva. The monument, which also features a mocked up Quick Response Code, towers above other gravestones in part of Yuzhnoye cemetery.

A local headstone maker Ilgam Galliulin denied he was responsible for its design.

‘My father and I make monuments to order,’ he said. ‘But I saw this unusual one for the first time last week.’

The grave is believed to have been commissioned from a Siberian company which offers ‘death accessories’. Designer Pavel Kalyuk built a similar headstone as an advertising gimmick.

‘We began to make monuments just to attract attention,’ he said.

A mourner, Nikolay Yevdokimov told newspaper ProUral:

‘I thought I was having hallucinations. How could an American smartphone suddenly appear at our cemetery? And such a huge one.

‘I came closer and was surprised. I’ve seen many gravestones, but to make one in the form of iPhone – this is the first time, to be honest.”

Not much is known about the late Rita Shameeva except that she was a keen traveller and had friends in Germany.

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