Alexey Navalny was one of the brightest, bravest, and most recognizable Russian politicians of his generation — the leader of the anti-Putin opposition, founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, and a man who became a symbol of resistance to corruption, lawlessness, and fear for millions of people. Learn more about the Alexey Navalny Memorial Project, view the monument concept, and follow the project’s development before donating.

For many of us, Alexey was more than a politician.

He showed that it is possible to refuse to live in fear. That one person can openly challenge a system that seems impossible to defeat. And that faith in a Beautiful Russia of the Future begins with a personal decision not to give up.

After being poisoned with Novichok in 2020, Alexey could have remained abroad.

But on January 17, 2021, he returned to Russia.

He understood perfectly well what could await him in Putin’s Russia. He knew that he could be arrested, persecuted, imprisoned, or that another attempt could be made on his life.

He returned because Russia was his country. Because he believed it could be changed. Because he believed in us — in people capable of overcoming fear and one day building a different Russia.

After his return, Alexey was arrested and spent the next three years in prison.

On February 16, 2024, Alexey Navalny was fatally poisoned in a Russian penal colony above the Arctic Circle.

Two years later, on February 14, 2026, the governments of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Sweden, and the Netherlands announced the results of examinations of his biological samples: several national laboratories conclusively confirmed the presence of epibatidine — a deadly neurotoxin. These countries concluded that poisoning was the cause of Alexey’s death.

For us, this confirmed what we knew from the beginning: his death was not an accident. We see it as the final act of years of political repression against a man who openly challenged the Russian dictator and the authoritarian system he created — and who refused to back down even after the first attempt on his life.

THE MONUMENT

We are creating a permanent, life-size memorial monument to Alexey Navalny for outdoor installation.

The sculpture will portray Alexey breaking the chain of his handcuffs and raising his hand in the V — Victory gesture.

Not as a defeated prisoner.

But as a man prison could never break.

But this project is not a monument to death.

It is a monument to Alexey’s life. To courage. To conviction.

To the ability to remain yourself even when almost everything has been taken away from you.

The completed monument is planned to be installed at Liberty Sculpture Park in Yermo, California —

an outdoor memorial sculpture park in the Mojave Desert dedicated to freedom, democracy, human dignity,

and the memory of victims of authoritarian repression.

The monument will be produced in a workshop in South Florida using a full-size 3D-printed master model and professional molds,

then cast in reinforced architectural concrete with an internal steel armature and metal chain elements.

Our goal is to raise $15,000.

The funds will be used for:

• fabrication of the full-size master model
• 3D printing and production tooling
• professional molds and formwork
• concrete casting
• internal reinforcement and metal components
• finishing and weather protection
• pedestal and foundation
• transportation from Florida to California
• final installation and organizational expenses related to the unveiling

THE ROAD OF MEMORY

The story of this monument will not end in the workshop.

Once completed, the monument will travel across America — approximately 2,700 miles from Florida to California — along a route we call the Road of Memory.

We want to turn its delivery into a 5–6 day memorial initiative, “Road of Memory,” with stops in U.S. cities where meetings will be held with Alexey’s supporters and with people who feel connected to his story.

At each such stop, we hope to gather people around the monument and take a collective memorial photograph.

After the journey is complete, photographs from different cities and states will be brought together with the help of modern AI technology into one collective memorial image.

One image. Many cities. Hundreds of faces.

People who may never have met one another, but who were once brought together by one man.

FEBRUARY 16, 2027

The final destination of the Road of Memory will be:

Liberty Sculpture Park
37570 Yermo Rd
Yermo, California 92398

The official unveiling of the monument is planned for February 16, 2027 — the third anniversary of Alexey Navalny’s death.

We hope that on that day people from California, Nevada, Arizona, and other states will come to the monument.

For a Russian speaker, even the name of this place carries a remarkable symbolic resonance.

Yermo sounds almost like the Russian word “ярмо” — yarmo.

A yoke. A burden. Oppression. Unfreedom.

Something placed on a person’s shoulders that forces them to bow their head.

Of course, this is not the origin of the American name Yermo. It is a Russian phonetic association — our metaphor, vivid, symbolic, and tragically precise.

It is difficult to imagine a more symbolic place for a memorial to a Man who spent his entire life fighting unfreedom himself and urging others to stop being afraid and throw off the yoke of fear and submission.

On Yermo Road, in the California desert, Alexey Navalny will stand with a broken chain in his hands.

THE MEMORY STONE

Together with this shared project, we want a living tradition to grow around the memorial.

If Alexey was ever an example to you...

If his words helped you — and still help you — not to give up...

If he helped awaken in you a sense of personal dignity, human and civic courage, or belief in the possibility of a different Russia — the Beautiful Russia of the Future that Alexey himself believed in...

Bring a small stone to the monument. Any stone. Write your initials, a date, a few words, or a short memorial message on it.

And leave it beside the monument. Not only on the day of the unveiling. A month later. A year later. Ten years later.

One stone weighs almost nothing.

But hundreds and thousands of stones can become the physical weight of human memory.

Over time, a memorial space may grow around the monument — created not by a government or an institution, but by people themselves.

MEMORY BECOMES THE FOUNDATION OF THE MONUMENT.

This monument in the United States will become one of many symbols around the world preserving the memory of Alexey Navalny — a Man who continued to say what he believed even as the price of those words grew higher and higher, right up to his final day.

A man who survived the first attempt on his life and still returned to the place where, only a short time before, someone had tried to kill him.

A man who knew he could be imprisoned — and returned anyway.

Because until the very end, he continued to believe in people.

Now we have the opportunity to help preserve the lasting memory of Alexey’s heroic personal and human choice.

Let us create this memorial monument together.

TRANSPARENCY

This campaign is administered by Vetta Group Corporation solely for the purpose of financing the fabrication,

transportation, and installation of the Alexey Navalny Memorial in the United States.

All funds raised will be used for documented project expenses.

This campaign is not being presented as a tax-deductible charitable fundraiser.

We plan to publish major fabrication milestones, transportation and installation updates, as well as information about project expenses.

Help Build the Alexey Navalny Memorial

A permanent memorial to courage, freedom, and the refusal to give up