One of the first original sculptures Murmansk became a monument to Anatoly Bredov. The monument was erected on the money residents. Bredow Anatoly - Hero of the Soviet Union, commander of machine-gun compartment 155th Infantry Regiment, belonging to the 14th Infantry Division of the Fourteenth Army of the Karelian Front; he held the post of military sergeant. Bredow AF born July 14, 1923 in the city of Novgorod in the ordinary working class family. In Murmansk, he graduated from the seven-year school, and in 1938 went to work as an electrician in the shipyards of the city of Murmansk. In April 1942, Bredow called for military service in the Red Army.

Autumn of 1944, the 155th Regiment decided to go on the road Titovka-Pechenga and begin the assault one of the heights called Roadside. According to the calculation crazy, gun killed more than 80 Germans, what the Germans also responded shelling. As a result, from the ranks of the Soviet soldiers was only gunner Nikita Ashurkov himself Anatoly Bredow, who began throwing grenades at the Germans. It is in a desperate situation, and Brad Ashurkov hugged and blew themselves up last grenade and machine gun. The remaining soldiers of the 155th Infantry Regiment act so inspired his comrades that quickly took roadside height. It is worth noting that in this battle Ashurkov survived - he was picked up on the fifth day of the sanitary battalion of soldiers. After making such a heroic feat Anatolia Bredov was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.

In 1956, the idea of ​​perpetuating the feat Bredow, which was the initiative of the students of Higher Naval College, which offered the youth of the city to collect funds for the erection of the monument. This provoked widespread approval in Murmansk. Over Subbotniks Sundays and youth collected waste paper and scrap metal, and then sends the proceeds in a dedicated fund for this purpose. Komsomol City Council decided to conclude an agreement on the establishment of the monument, in collaboration with pictorial and sculptural combine in the city of Leningrad. During the execution of the order began under the guidance of a team of young talented sculptor Yastrebinetskogo GD

The opening ceremony of the monument took place on May 9, 1958. On the day of opening of the monument at eight o'clock in the morning almost the entire population of the city gathered at the intersection of Lenin Avenue and the Trade Unions. During the ceremony, speakers proclaimed the fiery speeches and swore eternal loyalty to the country, an honor which gave his life Anatoliy Bredow. The most important speech of the ceremony was an appeal Fyodor Mikhailovich - the father of the deceased hero, who himself was a front-line soldier. During his speech, he could not hide his excitement when he led a story about the life of his son. The first bunch of flowers, which was laid at the monument became a bouquet Stefanida G. - mother Anatolia Bredow.

The sculpture is three meters high and depicts a brave soldier during maximum stress his physical and moral strength. His right hand raised high and tight squeezes grenade, and on the face of the hero expresses deep spiritual strength and readiness in any situation to go through the line of duty to the Motherland. Figure developing cape, underscoring the determination movements and wearing a tunic hugs strong body, showing all muscles at the time of the last throw that forever immortalized Anatolia Bredow in the ranks of the immortals. Warrior is on a granite boulder, which in its soulless alone contrasts with the figure of a soldier, full of determination.

The memory of the glorious hero delusional alive. Still to it bear flowers the couple are suitable parents with children, and for each set of military holiday wreaths of red carnations and carpet the pedestal. In 2003, Anatoly Bredov would have turned 80 years old, but he will remain forever young, the way he created the talented hands of the sculptor.