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The monument to the Soviet Army (known as Alyosha) is a 10.5 m high granite statue rising on top of Bunardzhik Hill in Plovdiv.
It was built in 1954-1957 by the architects Boris Markov, Petar Tsvetkov, Nikolai Marangozov, the sculptors Vasil Radoslavov, Georgi Kotsev, Ivan Topalov, Alexander Zankov and the stonemasons Sasho Spasov, Valcho Kadiyski, Grigor Mihov.[1] The prototype of the statue is the Russian soldier Alexei Ivanovich Skurlatov (1922 – 2013).
After 1989, several attempts were made to remove the monument, but they remained unsuccessful.
