Stèle de l'amitié sino-soviétique, Victory column in Lushun district, Dalian, China

The Sino-Soviet Friendship Monument is a 22.2-metre tower on a square granite base 22 metres wide, set on two stepped terraces with white marble balustrades. Its lower section carries four bas-reliefs: Tiananmen and the Kremlin to the south, the Anshan steel furnaces to the east, the Sino-Soviet Friendship Farm to the west, and the Lüshun victory column to the north. The upper twelve-sided shaft bears 20 figures of Chinese and Soviet people, lotus petals, a friendship emblem and a gilded dove.

The monument was erected between 1955 and 1957 and commemorates the Soviet victory over Japanese forces in Manchuria during World War II. Its construction took place during a period of close cooperation between the two communist superpowers in the postwar era.

The monument includes inscriptions by Zhou Enlai and displays symbolic representations such as Tiananmen, the Kremlin, and the Anshan Steel Works. These symbols express the economic and political connection between China and the Soviet Union as they were understood at the time.

The monument stands at the southern end of Stalin Square and received national protection status in 1961. You can visit it during daytime hours and view the reliefs from different angles at your leisure.

The four reliefs depict different aspects of the bilateral relationship: political centers, industrial facilities, agricultural cooperation, and an important port. Each carving tells a different part of the partnership between the two nations as it existed then.