Monument to the Scuttled Ships

Monument to flooded ships - one of the most famous monuments of the city of Sevastopol, his image - on the Soviet coat of arms of the city. Among the waves , the Seaside Boulevard , is on an artificial rock graceful columns with Corinthian capitals . On it - a bronze eagle , he holds a laurel wreath in its beak as if to put it on the water of the bay.

The monument Sunken Ships - Estonian sculptor A. Adamson and architect Vladimir A. Feldman. The total height of the monument - 16.66 m. In contrast the monument , wall, embankment, reinforced with anchors sunk ships.

The monument was erected in 1905 on the fiftieth anniversary of the first defense of Sevastopol, where were flooded Russian sailing ships that conceals the enemy ships log for the raid and thus save Sevastopol ( PSNakhimov) .Across the channel was flooded first seven obsolete ships , and in February 1855 when it was abandoned south side of the bay was flooded and the rest of the fleet . The fire of the shore batteries and flooded vehicles making Sevastopol bay inaccessible to the Anglo- French fleet.On the plaque mounted in the monument , written in memory of the ships sunk in the year 1854-1855 for entry barriers in the raid. .

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