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Memorial to Defenders of the Soviet Arctic during the Great Patriotic War

Murmansk, Russia · built 1974

To the Defenders of the Soviet Arctic during the Great Patriotic War, commonly called Alyosha ('', Alyosha is an affectionate diminutive form of the name Aleksey) is a monument in Murmansk, Russia to Soviet soldiers, sailors, and airmen of World War II (called, in Russia, the Great Patriotic War).

Monument data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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