Soviet monitor Zhelezniakov


Zhelezniakov is a river monitor of the Soviet Navy, the lead ship of its class of six ships. Completed during the 1930s it participated in World [War II] and was the only one of its class that survived the war.
The ship was named after the Russian sailor Anatoli Zhelezniakov who was famous for being among those who dispersed the Russian Constituent Assembly in 1918 and his saying "The guard has grown weary".
In 1967 it was installed in the Sailor's Park at Rybalskyi island as a monument-memorial. The same year around the monument was created the Sailor's Park. The ship was a monument of science and technology, history with a List of national monuments of [cultural heritage in Kyiv|protected number 260062-N] until its removal from the State Register of Immovable Monuments in 2023.