Ermak’s garden

On August 23, 1839, a monument to Ataman Yermak was solemnly unveiled at Cape Chukman. The order to build the monument was given by Nicholas I to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the annexation of Siberia. The project was developed by the academician of architecture A.P. Bryullov, brother of the famous painter Karl Bryullov. The monument consists of a marble pyramidal obelisk of austere color, set on a granite foot. Its weight is 187 tons, and its height is 17 meters.

In 1855 (1856) a garden was planted around the monument.

On July 10, 1891, the monument was examined by the heir to the throne, Tsarevich Nikolai Alexandrovich (future Emperor Nicholas II). He expressed a desire to make the monument more militant. After that, the cannons were dug into the ground, chains were stretched between them.

In the twentieth century, two mass graves appeared in the Ermak garden. In one of them lie the Red Army soldiers who died in 1919. In another – the victims of the kulak-Socialist-Revolutionary rebellion (which is now called the “Third Peasant War”) in 1921 (more than 90 people).

As a result of the improvement and reconstruction of the Ermak Garden in 2012, an amphitheater and a unique open-air stage appeared here.

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