Cultural Programme

The 173-metre Cape Green, the highest in Murmansk, rises high above Semenovskoye Lake. At its summit is a memorial in honour of the ‘Defenders of the Soviet Arctic during the Great Patriotic War’. This massive monument to the soldiers who stood up to invaders during the Great Patriotic War opened on 19 October 1974, on the 30th anniversary of the defeat of the fascist troops in the Arctic. The memorial was designed by architect Igor Pokrovsky and sculptor Isaak Brodsky. The funds to build the memorial were raised based on an initiative among the workers of the Rezets floating workshop.
Construction began on 17 October 1969 and lasted five years.
A 35.5-metre-tall Soviet soldier looks down on the city from a seven-metre-tall pedestal.
It is one of the tallest monuments in Russia. The sculpture of the Arctic defender is hollow inside, but its weight exceeds 5,000 tonnes. Murmansk residents have affectionately nicknamed the concrete giant Alyosha.