Father honours her daughter with a 5ft tall iPhone shaped tombstone

A local headstone maker in Russia has come across a very surprising tombstone made on the grave of one 25-year-old Rita Shameeva  who was buried at a graveyard in the oil-rich Russian city of Ufa after her death in January 2016

Rita's father decided to honour her with a 5ft high tombstone made from basalt in the shape of her favourite black iPhone with her picture on display. The monument, which also features a mocked up Quick Response Code, towers above other gravestones in part of Yuzhnoye cemetery.

The local headstone maker Ilgam Galliulin said he was not 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.'

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.

'It was made for a young woman from black basalt most likely. Very unusual.'