Monument to Heroes of Patriotic War 1812

The monument was erected in 1912 on the voluntary donations of the city and province residents in honor of the 100th anniversary of the victory over Napoleon.

The author of the monument was the architect I.A. Fomin from St. Petersburg; the installation works were supervised by the Vitebsk city architect T.V. Kibardin. The monument is a 26 meters high obelisk made of Finnish red granite blocks, tapering upwards and crowned with a double-headed cast-iron eagle on a ball, cast at the Moron Factory of Bronze-Casting and Electroplating in St. Petersburg.

The cast-iron plaque with the text: "To the immortal valor of the heroes of the Patriotic War, participants in the battles of Vitebsk on 13, 14, 15 July and 26 October 1812" is mounted on the monument. In the corners of the podium, on which the monument is placed, there are four cast-iron cannons, cast on the samples of mortars from the times of Peter the Great.