As agreed with the United Kingdom and the United States (Western Allies) at the Tehran Conference in November 1943 and the Yalta Conference in February 1945, the Soviet Union entered World War II's Pacific Theater within three months of the end of the war in Europe.

[6][7] On January 10, 1999, the monument was listed as the fourth batch of Heilongjiang Province's cultural relics protection sites.

[N 1][12][13] On both sides of the upper part of the monument body, there are reliefs composed of wheat ears, flags and hammer and sickle patterns.

Below the relief are the numerals "3-IX-1945" (September 3, 1945), the official Soviet and present-day Russian commemoration date of VJ Day.

The Russian inscription reads "eternal glory to the heroes who fell in battles for freedom and independence of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics" (Russian: Вечная слава героям павшим в боях за свободу и независимость Союза Советских Социалистических Республик) while the Chinese inscription reads "the Soviet heroes who died for the independence and freedom of China in the battle to liberate Northeast China will live forever" (Chinese: 为中国的独立与自由，在解放东北作战中牺牲的苏军英雄们永垂不朽).