Description of the attraction
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 northwestern coast of Avacha Bay.
The third place where the monument was erected was Svoboda Square in front of the NKVD building, where in the summer of 1934 it 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 "St. Peter the Apostle", on which in 1741 Vitus Bering went to the shores of America. The monument was restored in the second half of the 1970s.
