A memorial plaque to the German sculptor and graphic artist Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945) was installed in Svetlogorsk on July 17, 2003, on house No. 1 on Nekrasova Street, which the artist visited as a child. The plaque features a relief portrait of the sculptor and an inscription in Russian and German: "The happy days of the youth of the famous German sculptor and graphic artist Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945), who visited her grandfather, the renowned theologian Julius Rupp (1809-1884), were spent in this house."
