Monument to three sailors

In 1918, the border of the Nizhny Novgorod province was under threat, the Eastern Front was approaching it. In June of the same year, the Volga military flotilla was formed in Novgorod to repel the attack.

In September 1918, the ships returned to the harbor. Commissar of the flotilla N. G. Markin dies in battle. In his honor, the square is called opposite the River Station, previously called Safronovskaya.

In honor of the 60th anniversary of the October Revolution, a monument is erected on Markin Square, testifying to the feat of the sailors of the Volga military flotilla.

The three figures of sailors stride broadly forward shoulder to shoulder. The sculpture conveys the movement of the hands, in the wind develop ribbons without visors. A little ahead of the senior sailor, next to a sailor with a machine gun and a recruit. The group is located on a pedestal of granite. The author of the project is P.I. Gusev.