The memorial is an obelisk to the hero city of Sevastopol Photo: the memorial is an obelisk to the hero city of Sevastopol

Crystal Cape in Sevastopol obelisk is erected to the height of sixty meters. The composition is in the form of the United bayonet and sail. On the other side of the obelisk, which faces the sea, is depicted medals: gold Star, order of Lenin, and text carved on awarding the title of hero-city.

The walls of the monument is decorated with various reliefs which depict the events of those times: moments of the defense of the city, the episodes of the struggle of the underground, the fragments of the battles for the liberation of the city. Here are engraved on the memorial's commemorative words.

Erected the obelisk in 1977, to the sixtieth anniversary of the October revolution. Above the monument was created by a group of sculptors: I. G. Shamsiddinov, A. L. Sheffer, P. E. Veresov, V. I. Bagley, M. G. Katerega. Granite parapet protects the sites near the obelisk. On one platform you can see the sea anchor, with a cannon of a sample of the Crimean war. In this place they were not accidental. Coastal battery was here in 1854 – 1855, along with other batteries it guarded the approaches to the internal RAID. When they came the installation of the obelisk, in the land of the old guns were found. Saved them and delivered to the monument as the memory of the military achievements of Sevastopol and as a symbol of the continuity of traditions of the inhabitants of the city.

The height of the obelisk Crystal Cape – eighty metres above sea level. It is seen from various points of the city. Sunshine lights up his Golden light of the early morning and in the evening at sunset. In the dark obelisk lit up by floodlights, and it seems like it hovers over Sevastopol as permanent guardian of the city. During the holidays the sky over the monument tear multicolored lights of fireworks. Sparks of multicolored lights flash and reflected in the water, and then fade away, slowly sinking into the waters.

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