The monument was installed on May 9, 1995 - in honor of the 50th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War. It is located on the embankment of Volgograd at the intersection of Komsomolskaya and Chuikov streets. The authors of the monument are the sculptor Nadezhda Pavlovskaya and the architect Valentin Kalinichenko. The monument is a 500 kilogram fascist bomb that hangs over the women and children of the military of Stalingrad. On the pedestal it is written: "To the peaceful population who died in the days of the Battle of Stalingrad."Hundreds of enemy aircraft appeared in the sky over Stalingrad at 4:18 pm on August 23rd. On the orders of the Hitlerite command of the VIII Air Corps, the Luftwaffe began a massive bombardment of the city. Fascist aircraft over a day made more than two thousand sorties. Within hours, the city turned into a huge blazing bonfire.
It is believed that during the August bombing of Stalingrad 43 thousand civilians were killed, about 70 thousand were wounded. In all, the population of pre-war Stalingrad was about 550 thousand inhabitants. Massive bombing continued for several days, until August 28. In total, the city was dropped more than 12 thousand bombs, destroyed more than 41 thousand buildings (85% of the housing stock).
Losses among civilians were so significant, because until this day, battles were fought not in the city itself, but on the way to it - in the steppes, a hundred kilometers from the city. Evacuation of the population was gradual. The Civil Defense Committee did not even expect that the fighting would be carried to the city so soon.