VLADIVOSTOK, RUSSIA: Central Square

In the 1960 city officials decided to construct a square over the slope facing the Bay of the Golden Horn to provide a spacious meeting ground for local gatherings.  It was constructed  in the 1970s for parades and holiday events and officially named “Square of the Fighters for the Soviet Power in the Far East.”  The square is two stories with a  large shopping mall on the ground floor.  The former Primorsky Krai administration building is located on the square, and is now used for holding various local events.

There are several monuments in the square dedicated to the heroes of the Soviet Union in the Far East.  The central focus is on a trumpeter facing the ocean.  This figure was chosen as a symbol of the new, Soviet, power because a trumpeter is believed to have headed the People's Revolutionary Army that liberated Primorye from interventionists and years of Civil War after which Soviet power was then proclaimed in the whole region.