Nikolai Alexandrovich Ladkin, a worker of Solikamsk pulp and paper mill, began to fight against the German Fascists as a volunteer in 1942. He was an artillery man. He was courageously killed in a battle near the German town of Kenysberg on the 7th of February, 1945. On June 29, 1945 he was posthumously given the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union , the highest and the most honorary award in the country.

The monument was established in the Lenin's Komsomol Square on the 6th of November, 1967. The six-ton figure of the artillery man was cast in the Solikamsk magnesium plant. The author of the design was a sculptor L. Martyanov from the town of Beresniki.