Vitus Bering's monument description and photos - Russia - Far East: Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (Topic)

Vitus Bering's monument description and photos - Russia - Far East: Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. The title in English is Vitus Bering's monument.

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The monument to the founder of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Vitus Jonassen Bering is the oldest monument in the Russian Far East. The monument has a difficult history. During its existence, the monument has moved to a new location four times!

Initially, the monument, built with donations from naval officers in 1826, was erected in the Petropavlovsk port, near the house of the head of Kamchatka.

The revolution of 1917, the rapid construction and growth of the city in 1909-1916 touched the monument, and it was moved to the foot of Nikolskaya Sopka on the north-western coast of Avacha Bay.

The third place of installation of the monument was Freedom Square in front of the building NKVD, where in the summer of 1934 he was transferred by the sailors of the icebreaker "Krasin". In 1946, the monument was moved to Sovetskaya Street, where it stands to this day. A few meters from the monument there is a cannon from the packet boat “Saint Apostle Peter”, on which Vitus Bering went to the shores of America in 1741. The monument was restored in the second half of the 1970s.

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