The Solovetsky Stone is a memorial to victims of Soviet political repression. One monument stands on Lubyanka Square in Moscow, dated 1990, and a second stands in a public garden on Troitskaya Square in St. Petersburg. Yevgeny Ukhnalyov designed the St. Petersburg monument, and it was unveiled on September 4, 2002.
Ukhnalyov and State Duma deputy Yuly Rybakov reportedly paid for it themselves, and the city administration contributed nothing. It is a granite boulder of about 10 tons on a polished granite base. The boulder came from the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea, about 164 feet (50 meters) from a mass execution site at the Solovki prison camp in December 1923.
The base carries four inscriptions, including To the victims of Communist Terror. One quotes Anna Akhmatova's Requiem: I would like to recall them all by name.
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