Monument to the Unknown Sailor

The memorial includes an obelisk of red granite 21 meters high, to which the Walk of Fame leads. At the foot of the obelisk eternal flame burns.nHeroes of the defense of Odessa — pilots — Heroes of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Astashkin and Vitaly Topolsky, marines, captains of ships delivering cargo to the besieged city, submariners, border guards, etc.nThe music, sounding on the Walk of Fame, “Requiem for the Memory of an Unknown Sailor,” was written by composer Asseyev on verses of Rozhdestvensky in 1964. It sounds performed by an Odessa citizen, Honored cultural worker, journalist of the Odessa regional radio Barabanov.