Memorial to the Heroes of January '71

Memorial to the Heroes of January '71
	The monument in 2023.
	Interactive map of Memorial to the Heroes of January '71
Location	4 Bolesław I the Brave Embankment Street, Old Town, Szczecin, Poland
Coordinates	53°25′51″N 14°33′57″E / 53.430733°N 14.565797°E
Type	Sculpture
Width	7 m
Opening date	30 August 2023
Dedicated to	Participants of the January 1971 protests in Szczecin

Location4 Bolesław I the Brave Embankment Street, Old Town, Szczecin, Poland

Coordinates53°25′51″N 14°33′57″E / 53.430733°N 14.565797°E

TypeSculpture

Width7 m

The Memorial to the Heroes of January '71 (Polish: Pomnik Bohaterów Stycznia ’71) is a monument in Szczecin, Poland, within the Old Town neighbourhood. It is placed in front of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship Office Building, at the Bolesław I the Brave Embankment. It takes a form of large metal ship propeller, embedded into pavement. The monument is dedicated to the participants of protects in January 1971, in Szczecin, Poland in, held response to government failing to failure to keep promises to reduce prices agreed upon the end of the previous protests in December 1970, as well as against the censorship and smear campaigns of the media towards those events. The monument was unveiled on 30 August 2023.

v t e Public art and memorials in Szczecin
Portrait sculpture	Ernst Moritz Arndt † Telesfor Badetko Bogislaw X Bartolomeo Colleoni Jan Czekanowski Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky Frederick III † Frederick the Great Frederick William † Frederick William III † Józef Haller Anna Jagiellon John Paul II Florian Krygier Carl Loewe † Adam Mickiewicz Józef Piłsudski Sophie Caroline Tilebein Kornel Ujejski William I † Wojtek
Other monuments	Duplicating Machine Fallen Athletes Fallen in the Fight for the Liberation of Dąbie † Glory of the Soviet Army † Gratitude to the Soviet Army † Heroes of January '71 Hungarian Boy Independence Polish Endeavour Pomeranian Griffin SS Kapitan K. Maciejewicz mast To those, whom did not return from the sea Victims of December 1970 Victims of the Putsch † Napoleon Mound Workers' Uprising Sign
Other works	Amphitrite Fountain † Elephant Flora Fiery Birds Good Samaritan Hercules Fighting with a Centaur King Matt the First Labyrinth Manzel Fountain † Mother Earth Railwayman Sailor Spinning Top † Umbriaga White Eagle Fountain
Key: † Removed

Memorial to the Heroes of January '71

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