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Monument to the victims of the intervention
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The monument was built on the mass grave of 24 prisoners of the prison in Yokanga.
The prisoners of the camp in Yokanga were rescued by the hundreds with the help of the Murmansk Revkom, and then they were taken by ship to the capital of the Arctic region. Along the way, 24 people died from among the seriously ill. It was decided to bury the dead in Freedom Square (the second name is the square of the Victims of the Intervention), which then became part of the Five Corners Square. And in just three months, a memorial was erected over the grave, with only concrete and metal used to build it.
On the pedestal there is an inscription "To the victims of the intervention of 1918-1920. Murmansk workers and fishermen on the day of the decade of the Great October", and the monument itself is made in the form of a grandstand with flights of stairs in the spirit of constructivism. It is with the monument to the victims of the intervention that the history of the monuments of Murmansk begins — it became the first. It is easy to find-it is located in the heart of the city on the Five Corners Square, between the "Arctic", the Art Museum and the Railway Museum.
The monument was opened on November 7, 1927, the author of the project was engineer Savchenko. The money for the memorial was collected by the whole city. Now the square is one of the favorite places of Murmansk residents, where there are benches for recreation, a stage for holding holidays and fountains in the form of two bowls with iridescent water, which are called "crying" for those who died during the intervention in the Arctic.
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