It was built on the occasion of the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the April Uprising in 1976. Its creators were the sculptors Sekul Krumov, Velichko Minekov and Dimitar Daskalov, as well as the architects Ivan Nikolov and Bogdan Tomalevski. The memorial was built on the historic hill of Manyovo Bardo in the centre above the town where on April 30, 1876 the bloody battles during the uprising took place. The site is one of the emblematic places for celebrating the anniversaries of the April Uprising. Local residents call it "Borimechkata" for short, after Ivan Vazov's hero of the same name and the central figure of the memorial.