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Monument
to
Flooded
Ships
-
the
monument
in
Sevastopol,
the
emblem
of
the
city.
Installed
on
an
artificial
island
in
increments
of
roughly
processed
granite
blocks,
10
meters
from
the
beach
at
Primorskiy
Boulevard.
The
monument
is
a
column
with
Corinthian
capitals,
topped
with
a
bronze
double-headed
eagle
with
open
wings,
holding
in
its
beak
a
laurel
wreath.
The
authors
of
the
monument
-
Estonian
sculptor
AG
Adamson
and
architect
B.
A.
Feldman.
The
total
height
of
the
monument
-
16,66
m.
On
the
monument,
on
the
wall
of
the
embankment,
reinforced
anchor
with
submerged
ships.
The
monument
was
established
in
1905
to
the
fiftieth
anniversary
of
the
first
defense
of
Sevastopol,
which
had
been
flooded
with
Russian
sailing
ship,
«to
zagradit
login
enemy
ships
to
raid,
and
thus
save
Sevastopol»
(P.
Nakhimov).
Flooded
across
the
fairway
first
seven
obsolete
ships
and
in
February
1855
when
the
South
was
left
the
party
in
the
bay
flooded
and
the
rest
of
the
fleet.
Fire
shore
batteries
and
flooded
boats
did
Sevastopol
bay
inaccessible
to
the
Anglo-French
fleet.
At
the
memorial
plate
mounted
in
the
monument,
says:
«In
memory
of
the
ships,
submerged
in
the
1854-1855
year
for
the
barrier
entrance
to
the
raid».
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