The monument to the crew of the steamship "Komsomolets" was established in 1968 in Naryan-Mar on the street Saprygina, near the building of administration of the Sea port. The monument was erected in honor of the tragedy that unfolded in the Barents sea on August 16, 1942.

Tug "Komsomolets" was built in 1866 in Norway, its former name "Sharpen". Its width was 6 m, depth — 2, 45 m, length — 26, 7 m, power machinery — 320 HP, capacity 161 tons, speeds up to 7 knots. In Naryan-Mar it since 1934. Since the beginning of the war he was transferred to the military regime of the time, among other merchant vessels in the North basin. "Komsomolets" was providing transportation for the needs of the Northern fleet and the 14th army.

29 July 1942 tug "Komsomolets" and the barge W-4 out of Naryan-Mar in the rescue expedition led by captain A. S. Kozlovsky in order to remove the goods from the ship "Vytegra", crashed. Overloading the cargo from the ship, the caravan brought them safely to Amderma. From there he went to the village of Habarova. He arrived there on August 10. To caravan in the village joined the steamer "Comillas", tug "Nord" and the lighter "s-500".

"Nord" towed "Comales" (because of its failure) and the lighter "s-500", which was Laden with coal, "Komsomolets" towed the barge W-4 on which there were 300 people, most of them inmates of the camps "Norilstroy". August 16, 1942 the caravan moved towards Naryan-Mar. On the barge were also women and children. The caravan had no weapons on Board. Swimming was pretty quiet. Moving with a speed of 6 knots, the column headed "Komsomolets" with barge W-4. Followed by "Nord".

At 7 a.m. on August 17, when the caravan was two miles from the Northern coast of Koh Matveev, close it made an ascent of the German submarine U-209 and opened artillery fire. Radio operator of the tug "Komsomolets" And. She dedicated time to inform them about the attack. The first target for the U-209 chose the barge P-4. At 7 a.m., she was on fire, but was kept afloat. The people who were on it, jumped overboard to escape the fire. In the water, in total, there were about 300 people. While the submarine shot a barge, tug "Komsomolets" tried to escape. But the maneuver was spotted and the ship fired. The tug caught fire and beached on the Northern edge of Koh Matveev. Double-U-209 torpedoed burning barge W-4, but to no avail. 7 h. 20 min. the boat was persueing other courts caravan. Tug "Nord" by this time managed to get the lighter "s-500" and "COMELEC" to the island Matveev and putting on the anchor 800 m from the shore. The very same "North, skirting the island from the West, went to the side of Ugra Orb. In 8 hours. the submarine came to standing near the island courts and sunk by artillery fire Comiles". The crew had to jump into the water and swim to shore. Many have succeeded, because the space was small. At 08 h. 05 min. on a lighter from a distance of 300 m was fired a torpedo, but she's not the target was hit. At 08 h.10 min. the submarine was again opened artillery fire. After a while the lighter went under water. At 08 h. 31min. the boat has released a torpedo in the side of the barge W-4 and sent it to the bottom.

Information about the artillery attack of a German submarine in the Soviet towing the caravan was received in the village of Habarova about 9 h. 20 min. In the area of the incident went trawlers. They met the tug "Nord", the captain of which described the situation. The ships moved to Denmark Matveev. At the approach to the island, they took on Board two people on the boat with the barge W-4. According to survivors, the German submariners were killed by small arms fire in the water. To approach the remains of the burnt "Komsomolets" rescuers did not dare because of the shallow depths. They were aboard the caravan 328 people were killed in the shelling and drowned 305 people. Among them 14 members of the crew of the "Komsomolets" and N-4.

In 1944 "Komsomolets" was off the rocks and towed in Naryan-Mar port, where, after overhaul he worked for some time.

The monument to the crew of the tug "Komsomolets" was created by engineers of the port under the supervision of P. J. Khmelnitsky. Monument to the sailors is a pedestal in the form of a steamship cabin with installed Admiralty anchor. Vertically to the bottom of the pedestal is attached to a stainless steel plate with a commemorative inscription.