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Cannon from the frigate "Tiger"
Full name of the monument :

Cannon from the frigate "Tiger"

Region :
Odesa region
Address of the monument :
Odesa, Dumska Square (Komuny), 1
Status :
Historical monument of local significance
Monument installation year (s) (if available) :
1904 р., реставр. 2004 р.
Time classification according to the installation epoch :
Imperial period from XVIIІ centuries to 1918
Artist(s) :
Architect V. Kundert
Person/event, object the monument is dedicated to :
object(s)
Size :
the cannon is steel, the carriage is wooden, the pedestal is concrete, lined with gray granite tiles
Material :
mixed materials
Type of art composition :
technical or industrial ready-made object(s)
Artistic approach :
synthesis
Main text, additional text (if available) :
Yes
Language(s) of the text :
English
Narrative commemorates :
Imperial era
The preservation state of the monument at the time of the research :
exists
Institution responsible for maintenance :
Odesa City Council
Institution’s website :
https://omr.gov.ua/
Free text that contains data valid for interpretation :
Monument of history, architecture and urban planning Order dated 20.06.2008 No. 728/0/16-08 241-Od A monument to the Crimean (Eastern) War of 1854–1855, namely the bombing of Odessa, on Primorsky Boulevard in the city of Odessa. In 1903, on the eve of the fiftieth anniversary of the bombing of Odessa, the British cannon was found and they intended to turn it into a military-historical, as they said then, monument. For this purpose, a commission was created, which, as reported in the Odesa News newspaper, "I took measures to ensure that all the parts of the naval bombardment gun, removed from the British warship "Tiger", and the gun carriage, which were destroyed by time and now restored, fully corresponded to the era." At the same time, divers again, now half a century later, visited the place of the frigate's death and picked up several cores of the appropriate caliber of the gun. After the restoration, the cannon was moved to Mykolaivsky Boulevard, where in September 1904 it was placed on a pedestal, turning it from a participant into a witness of many events.