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This Woolly Mammoth stands on the shores of river Ob near the town of Salekhard, West Siberia, Russia. The area has been a source of many frozen carcasses and large amounts of ivory of long extinct mammoths. Region's most important find was the frozen carcass of a 40,000 years old baby woolly mammoth (nick named Lyuba) discovered in May 2007. She is by far the most complete example of the species ever discovered. (Wikipedia)
When I first saw the image of the sculpture I thought that it was connected with discovery of the Lyuba. However the ever changing digits 410/411/412/413 seen in the pictures are quite a mystery. The earliest image of the mammoth was uploaded in Panoramio on April 23, 2007 so there seems to be no connection with Lyuba.
As per this web page the city was founded in 1595 and its quadricentennial was celebrated in 1995. My best guess is that the digits relate to number of years since the founding of the city and are changed every year. The text underneath the digits displays the name of the city in Russian (Салеха́рд).
Incidentally Salekhard is the only city in the World situated on the polar circle which bisects it.
You are absolutely right about the digits - it's the number of years since the city was found.
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