Last Address

The Last Address (Russian: «Последний адрес», romanized: "Posledniy adres")^[1] is a civic initiative to commemorate the victims of repressions in the Soviet Union. The essence of the initiative is that ordinary people deserve to be commemorated, not only "VIPs" which typically receive memorial plaques. A small commemorative plaque (palm-sized) is installed on the houses known as the last residential addresses of those arrested. Every commemorative plaque is dedicated to one person only, with the project operating according to the motto "One name, one life, one sign".^[2]

The initiative had mixed acceptance by local Russian authorities and suffered from vandalism.