September 2, 2002, within the celebration of the day of the city, there was opened the monument “To Sailor’s Wife” in Odessa Sea Port. The monument depicts a woman standing on the balcony floor, holding a baby in her arms and gazing into the sea further, waiting for the arrival of the ship. The author of the modest monument was the famous Odessa sculptor Alexander Tokarev.

Odessa owes its solvency foremost to the port. The town was originally conceived as the military both as merchant harbor. For decades, the majority of citizens, regardless of profession, one way or another were related to the sea and navigation. As it used to be said, one half of Odessa citizens sail over the seas, and the other, better, waiting for them, staring intensely into the distance. An elegant monument by the sculptor Alexander Tokarev, established in 2002 at the Marine station – is a modest memorial to those sailor's wives and their children, who accompanied the outbound in the autumn of 1941 to the Sevastopol naval ships of the Black Sea Fleet, to those who, year after year were selflessly waiting for whalers from flotillas "Glory" and "Soviet Ukraine", those who have waited decades on the native berth for disappeared tanker "Tuapse", those who unsuccessfully waited for the arrival of "Nakhimov".

The sculpture of the woman is very beautiful: in all her shape there is shown the unspent tenderness. She is modest, with big sad eyes, and looks like a living: there is a feeling that the wife and child suddenly come alive. At the foot of the monument there is a small speaker, which plays the song by L. Utesov about the wives of seafarers.

The monument symbolizes also the fact that at the present time in all corners of the globe the thousands of wives and children are awaiting for the arrival of the head of their family, but not all of them can meet the husband or father again.

Odessa is obliged for its competence to the port first of all. The city was initially planned to be as a military and merchants' harbour at the same time. During numerous decades whether or not majority of the citizens were connected with the sea and the navigation. Like they said before one half of Odessa people travel by seas, and the second one, the best, waits for them looking intently into the distance.

Magnificent monument by sculptor Alexander Tokerev was installed in 2002 on the seaport's territory. It is a modest memorial to those sailors' wives and their children who passed off departing warships of The Black Sea fleet for Sevastopol in autumn 1941. This monument is dedicated to those who were waiting devotedly for whalers of flotillas "Fame" and "Soviet Ukraine", to those who expected the disappeared tanker "Tuapse", those who were waiting and never saw again "Nahimov".