St. Petersburg is one of the first cities where a monument to the victims of political repression was installed. The monument was opened in April 1995. The author of the monument is Mikhail Shemyakin.
Huge amount of great artists, writers, poets ans scientists died in that repressions...just some of them you can se on the monument...
....................................historian Lev Gumilev, poet Nikolai Zabolotsky, actor Georgy Zhzhenov, future Marshal of the Soviet Union, komdiv, Konstantin Rokossovsky poet and playwright Joseph Brodsky, scientists: Nikolay Vavilov, Dmitry Likhachev, Tupolev and others…
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