The Russian Academy Of Arts

On August 7, 2011 in the Solovetsky Islands, within the Days of Remembrance of Victims of Political Repressions annually held here in the early August, near the Solovetsky Stone installed on the Alley of Memory in 1989 there was an unveiling ceremony for the monument to the Poles who had perished in the prison camp in the Solovetsky Islands. The memorial slab on the granite boulder designed by the Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Arts Vyacheslav Bukhaev depicts two crosses – Catholic and Russian Orthodox and three holes symbolizing traces of bullets.

The ceremony was attended by the Consul General of the Republic of Poland to Russia Yaroslav Drozd, Deputy Director of the Solovetsky Museum-Preserve Alexander Martynov, representatives of the local authorities, public figures from Russia, Ukraine and Poland. They called to remember victims of the political purges and those who decades later at the risk of their freedom collected and preserved proofs about the crimes in the prison camp in the Solovetsky Islands.

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