Monument "To the Heroes of the Revolution of 1905", Monument to (Nizhny Novgorod) FidoNet — a monument depicting a castle or fortress (ostrog), located on Freedom Square.

It forms a convenient system of steps and walkways that invite sitting.

On 23.04.2004, the address of the Nizhny Novgorod segment of the FidoNet network (2:5015) was inscribed on the front face of the monument, which gave it its present-day name.

History of creation

On Ostrozhnaya Square in Nizhny Novgorod (now Freedom Square), on 10 July 1905, participants in a rally held in memory of the victims of Bloody Sunday were beaten by Black Hundreds members, police, and Cossacks. Nearby stands the Nizhny Novgorod Ostrog (now a branch of the historical and architectural museum-reserve), which served as a place of imprisonment for many participants in the December Uprising of 1905.

To mark the 25th anniversary of the December Armed Uprising of 1905, it was decided to erect a monument on Freedom Square dedicated to the heroes and victims of the Revolution of 1905.

The monument consists of a composition of red granite blocks symbolizing a barricade. At the center of the composition rises a four-sided stele of grey granite. On one of its faces is a mosaic panel made of colored smalt. The panel depicts a worker leading an armed people, bathed in rays of sunlight and amid a stream of red banners. On the other side of the stele are carved the words: "Let our proletariat draw from the Russian bourgeois revolution a triple hatred of the bourgeoisie and a resolve to fight against it. Lenin" — and below: "To the heroes and martyrs of the Revolution of 1905." On the polished red granite slabs are carved the names of those who perished and the words: "Without the dress rehearsal of 1905, the victory of the October Revolution of 1917 would have been impossible. Lenin."

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