The contest was announced in the spring of this year, and caused a lot of controversy at once (see the article by Gregory Revzin (Russian)). All the projects of the memorial can be seen at Novaya Gazeta website. On the 16th of October, the ten finalists were announced, and still later on the judging panel announced the first three places (in this same article one can also read about the numerous members of the judging panel). The Julius Borisov project was not among the leading three - we are publishing it here as an example of not so much sculptural as space-wise solution of the contest task. 

The monument was to be erected at the crossing of the Sadovaya-Spasskaya Street and the Sakharov Avenue, in the little park with blue spruce trees before the former building of the computing center of the Ministry of Aviation Industry of USSR, now belonging to banks and insurance companies. Barring the proximity of the Sakharov Avenue, the place for the monument was all but casually chosen. In the course of the mentioned discussion, an opinion was several times expressed that it would be more appropriate to erect this monument, say, at the Lubyanka Square (where the KGB building stands) instead of the Felix Dzerzhinsky monument. However, the participants of the contest had to work with what was offered to them, specifically, with a territory situated at the crossing of two three-lane thoroughfares with their cars either speeding by or crawling locked in a traffic jam. The place is hard to reach on foot, either.