MOSCOW (AFP) - A Moscow gallery is inviting members of the public to vote on one of five proposed monuments to Boris Yeltsin unveiled on Tuesday.

The organizers of the event hope to persuade city authorities to erect the winning monument in the city centre outside the headquarters of the FSB security service.

"We have examined over 100 projects and have picked the five best," said the owner of the gallery ART4.RU, Genri Yassa.

"The project that gets the most votes will be presented as a final decision to the Russian Culture Ministry," he said.

Among the quirky projects on display was a "Fountain of Tears" by Moscow artist Andrei Bartenev intended to symbolize "our dashed hopes."

Another consisted of the word "Yeltsin" in giant concrete letters, backed by a recording of the former president singing a popular Russian song, Kalinka.

Yeltsin, who served as Russia's first post-Soviet leader from 1991-1999, died on April 23 and was buried with full state honors despite the mixed feelings towards.

The proposed site for the monument is the spot where a previous monument stood to the founder of the Soviet secret police, Felix Dzerzhinsky, until it was pulled down by Yeltsin supporters in 1991.

But the organizers will have to find a way round a ban on erecting statues of politicians who have died less than a decade previously.