Not far from the city center stands a large-scale obelisk, reminiscent of the feat of soldiers who defended their homeland during the Second world war. Almost 12 thousand people left Shchuchinsk for the front, and not all of them were destined to return home. There were women left in the city who did all the men’s work on their own. Therefore, the obelisk depicts a soldier and a girl-in memory of how hard it was for both of them.