Tags: Monument.
Defenders of the Soviet Arctic during the Great Patriotic War (Russian: Защитникам Советского Заполярья в годы Великой Отечественной войны) commonly called Alyosha (Russian: ‘Алёша'; Alyosha is an affectionate diminutive form of the name Aleksey) is a monument in Murmansk Russia to Soviet soldiers sailors and airmen of World War II (called in Russia the Great Patriotic War).