Monument to the scuttled ships during the Siege of Sevastopol in 1854

 cultural heritage / national heritage, listed building / architectural heritage, 1904_construction, war memorial, object of cultural heritage of federal importance (Russia)

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».