The city administration told Interfax that the monument will be installed in the Vera and Nadezhda park in the coming days, and work at the new site has already begun.
Plans to move the sculpture became known in March. The proposal came from the Pacific Fleet command and veterans, who argued the monument did not fit the theme of the other memorials on the waterfront.
City hall explained the decision by citing criticism from historians and local historians: Solzhenitsyn arrived in Vladivostok by plane, and his presence on the waterfront among warships was deemed inappropriate. The decision was made by the city's Council on Culture and Art.
The bronze monument, more than 2.6 metres tall, was unveiled on 2 September 2015. It was created by sculptor Pyotr Chegodaev, whose design shows the writer appearing to step down a ship's gangway onto the shore. The writer's son, Yermolai Solzhenitsyn, attended the ceremony. According to the city administration, the sculpture does not have the status of a cultural heritage site.
Solzhenitsyn visited Vladivostok once, in May 1994, when he was returning to Russia from the United States. He flew to Magadan, then to Vladivostok, and from there travelled to Moscow by train.