This monument depicting a giant version of the Our Lady of the Kursk Root Icon was unveiled in 1996 to mark the 700th anniversary of the appearance of the icon. According to legend the icon was found in the root of a tree near Kursk. The icon was later held in the city until it was taken abroad after the revolution, where it remains today. The monument is the work of sculptor Vyacheslav Klykov, himself from the Kursk Region.