🏛 Obelisk to the Executed Decembrists

Уральская ул., сад Декабристов

A 1939 granite obelisk on the island where, by tradition, five executed Decembrists were secretly buried.

The island was called Golodai and took the Decembrists' name in 1926, for the centenary of the execution of five leaders of the uprising.
Excavations in 1917 found the remains of several people here: the place had been used to bury suicides.
A foundation stone was laid in 1926, and in 1939 an obelisk of black polished granite to a design by V. N. Bobrov.
The local historian Andrei Chernov concluded in the 1980s that the grave lay on the vanished island of Gonoropulo, which merged with Golodai.
According to another version, the Decembrists were buried on the grounds of today's Almaz plant, where they also have a monument.

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