Vladimir Putin's 62nd birthday is honored in the most Putin-esque way

5. In honor of Putin's 58th birthday in 2010, a group of Russian journalism students decided the smartest thing they could do was strip down and photograph themselves for a not-so business casual calendar. Each month featured a partially-clad young woman alongside captions like, "You put out the forest fires, but I'm still burning," and "You only get better with years."

4. For Putin's 61st birthday, Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono sang an intimate, guitar-accompanied acoustic version of "Happy Birthday" in front of the Russian head of state and of several international leaders.

3. Surprisingly not the most ostentatious present, this year's manly-man art show The 12 Labors of Putin fits comfortably in the middle of this ranking.

2. In celebration of Putin's 60th birthday, 10 mountaineers scaled a 13,000-foot ridge in the southern republic of North Ossetia-Alania and erected a 13-by-20-foot portrait of the president. Local officials there even lodged a request to rename the spot Peak Putin.

1. It was Putin's 56th birthday present that outranks the scantily clad women and the referential art. In 2008, an unknown supporter gave the president a rare Ussuri tiger. It weighed only 20 pounds and slept adorably in a wicker basket in the president's Moscow residence. Putin, however, promised the cub would eventually be moved to a more suitable home in a zoo or wildlife preserve.