The poet Aleksey Lebedev was born in Suzdal in 1912 and this monument to him was unveiled in 2008. The statue depicts Lebedev wearing a naval stripped "telnyashka" undershirt as he served in the Baltic Fleet Navy. During the war Lebedev served on the L-2 Stalinets submarine and was killed in 1941 when the submarine was blown up by a mine in the Gulf of Finland.