World War II entered history as the largest armed conflict. However, after its conclusion, unfortunately, "the guns and cannons did not fall silent." Political, economic, and religious disagreements between countries and peoples continued to cause armed clashes, conflicts, and local wars in the post-war decades. Our country participated in some of them. Military specialists from the Soviet Union fought in Vietnam and North Korea, in African countries and the Middle East. The war in Afghanistan, lasting ten years, became the largest armed conflict for the USSR after the Great Patriotic War and claimed tens of thousands of Soviet lives. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, hot spots began to flare up in the post-Soviet space. Russian servicemen and peacekeepers restored and maintained peace and order in regions such as Tajikistan, Transnistria, Nagorno-Karabakh, Yugoslavia, South Ossetia, and Abkhazia, as well as during two Chechen campaigns and in Syria. This is already part of our recent history.

Among the soldiers and officers fighting far from their homeland in recent decades were residents of Gelendzhik. Since 1946, about two hundred servicemen from Gelendzhik have participated in more than 30 armed conflicts and local wars involving our country. Many of them did not return home.

Therefore, the residents of the resort hold the monument "To the Heroes of Unannounced Wars," installed on May 7, 2008, on the Gelendzhik embankment, in special respect. The black marble slab depicts three Russian warriors, and below is the inscription: "To the sons of Russia. Memory forever," "Life, like an unfinished song. Life, like a broken string..." The memorial is 3 meters high and 3.5 meters long. Its author, Evgeny Sazhin, a member of the Union of Designers of Russia, is a sculptor-artist and a teacher at the local institute of arts.

Every year on February 15, on the Day of Remembrance of Internationalist Warriors, a solemn rally and flower-laying ceremony take place at the monument. On this day, a mourning event called "Watch of Memory" is also held, involving Gelendzhik schoolchildren and local Cossacks.