Monument to the Heroes of the Revolution, Soviet memorial in central Novosibirsk, Russia.
The Monument to the Heroes of the Revolution is a memorial complex and public park in Novosibirsk's Central District, bounded by Shchetinkina, Maxim Gorky and Serebrennikovskaya streets. It contains two mass graves, a memorial monument, and a wall panel on the House of Lenin showing workers, peasants and soldiers in grey, fallen revolutionaries in black, and banners in red.
On 22 January 1920 the remains of 104 prisoners killed before the retreat of Kolchak's forces were buried here in a common grave; only 37 could be identified, among them V. R. Romanov, first chairman of the Novo-Nikolayevsk Soviet. The torch monument by painter V. N. Sibiryakov and engineer A. I. Kudryavtsev was unveiled on 7 November 1922. In 1957 the remains of four victims of the May 1918 anti-Soviet mutiny were moved here from the city cemetery and busts of revolutionaries were installed, with four more added twenty years later.
The square is named after the revolutionaries buried here, and the memorial wall shows workers, peasants and soldiers in grey, the dead and mourners in black, and banners in red. The monument by painter V. N. Sibiryakov and engineer A. I. Kudryavtsev depicts a muscular arm holding a torch and breaking out of a stone block. A memorial plaque lists the 104 political prisoners buried in January 1920.
The memorial is located at Maxim Gorky Street 78 and remains open to visitors without entry fees, allowing free access year-round. The surrounding park provides space to walk around and spend time with the sculptures and landscape.
The monument's creators were painter V. N. Sibiryakov and engineer A. I. Kudryavtsev, who in 1922 unveiled a muscular hand thrusting a torch through a stone block. The memorial stayed largely untouched after the 1970s, so it preserves an original Soviet-era appearance rather than a restored one.
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