Monument to WWII soldiers. Monuments to soldiers of the Great Patriotic War

Evgenia Markovskaya, 5th grade, Ruslan Nereyko, 5th grade, Alexey Panov, 5th grade, Daniil Popov, 5th grade

Lately we often hear how Victory monuments are being dismantled in many cities and countries. In our project, we wanted to find and learn more about the history of the monuments, to whom and for what feats they were erected. Our duty is to honor the feat of every defender of our country, everyone who fought on the battlefield, in the rear brought the great Victory Day closer. The only thing our generation can do is take care of monuments. And also remember the feat of our people and pass it on to our descendants.

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TOPIC OF PROJECT WORK

"MONUMENTS OF THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR"

Compiled by: Evgeniya Markovskaya, 5th grade

Nereyko Ruslan, 5th grade

Alexey Panov, 5th grade

Popov Daniil, 5th grade

Pushkar Danil, 5th grade

Scientific supervisor: Subbotina Svetlana Yurievna,

Deputy Director for Water Resources Management,

MBOU Secondary School s. Hot Keys.

With. Hot Springs, 2015

Introduction 3

1. Monuments to WWII 4

Conclusion 12

Literature 13

Appendix 14

Maintaining

This year we celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Victory. Our people really won the most brutal war of the 20th century, saved our country, saved Europe from fascism and gave us all a future.

Lately we often hear how Victory monuments are being dismantled in many cities and countries. In our project, we wanted to find and learn more about the history of the monuments, to whom and for what feats they were installed.

Our duty is to honor the feat of every defender of our country, everyone who fought on the battlefield and brought the great Victory Day closer to the rear. The only thing our generation can do is take care of monuments. At least three times a year (June 22, February 23, May 9) bring flowers to the foot of the monuments. And also remember the feat of our people and pass it on to our descendants.

Purpose of the work: to collect information about monuments

Tasks:

Find out whether monuments to war heroes are necessary.

Find out to whom and where the monuments were erected.

Hypothesis –

We assume that in our country there are monuments dedicated to the war of 1941-1945 in almost every city, even in villages and villages. The task of our generation is to know the feat of our grandfathers and great-grandfathers, remember and be proud of them.

Methods:

Working with books and searching for information on the Internet;

The fiery forties. The harsh years of the Great Patriotic War will never be erased in the memory of the people. The working people of the hero city of Moscow wrote a bright page in the history of the war. Moscow was for them the personification of the will to win, the personification of heroism, perseverance and courage. In bronze, granite and marble obelisks, sculptures, memorial plaques, and the names of streets and squares, Moscow perpetuated the memory of glorious warriors.

1. Memorial “Tomb of the Unknown Soldier”

In December 1966, when the 25th anniversary of the defeat of fascist troops near Moscow was celebrated, the remains of the Unknown Soldier, who died a brave death while defending the Soviet capital, were buried near the ancient Kremlin wall, in the Alexander Garden. Before that, the hero’s ashes rested 40 kilometers from Moscow along the Leningradskoe Highway - at the turn where in the fall of 1941. There were fierce battles. By accepting the remains of the hero into its sacred land, Moscow thereby perpetuated the memory of all who gave their lives for the freedom of the Fatherland.

The monument is a monumental architectural ensemble (authors are architects D. Burdin, V. Klimov, and Yu. Rabaev). Above the burial place of the Unknown Soldier, in the center there is a large platform. Above it is a tombstone with five steps made of red granite. The moving words are inscribed on the slab: “Your name is not known, your feat is immortal.” A bronze lamp in the shape of a five-pointed star is mounted at the base of the platform. At its center burns the fire of Eternal Glory.

To the left of the grave is a granite pylon with the inscription: “1941 to those who fell for the Motherland, 1945.” On the right is a row of memorial blocks. Under their slabs there are capsules with the sacred soil of the hero cities.

Here is the soil from the Piskarevsky cemetery, where the defenders of Leningrad who defended the city during the siege are buried; from the mass graves of Kyiv and Mamayev Kurgan, where the battles of the great battle on the Volga took place. Here is land from the Malakhov Kurgan, from the “Belt of Glory” of Odessa and land taken from the gates of the Brest Fortress. The other three memorial blocks perpetuated the memory of Minsk, Kerch, and Novorossiysk. The tenth memorial block is dedicated to the hero city of Tula. This entire memorial row is made of dark red porphyry. The soldier’s gravestone was forever covered with a red battle banner cast from ageless copper. The soldier's helmet and laurel branch are made of the same metal - a symbol of people's honor to the hero. At the Eternal Flame, burning in the very center of Moscow, the words shine: Leningrad, Kyiv, Minsk, Volgograd, Sevastopol, Odessa, Kerch, Novorossiysk, Tula, Brest Fortress. Behind each of these names is boundless devotion to the Motherland, boundless perseverance and heroism.

2. In memory of Leningrad children who died at Lychkovo station

In the small village of Lychkovo, Novgorod region, there is an unmarked mass grave from the Great Patriotic War. One of many in Russia. One of the most tragic and sad. Because this is a child's grave...

In July 1941, at the very beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the evacuation of civilians began from Leningrad. First of all, children were sent to the rear. It was impossible then to foresee the course of hostilities... Children were taken out of Leningrad to save them, away from death and suffering. But as it turned out, they were being taken straight towards war. At the Lychkovo station, Nazi planes bombed a train of 12 cars. In the summer of 1941, hundreds of innocent children died.

The number of little Leningraders who died is still unknown. Fate smiled on only a few. After the bombing, local residents collected the rest in fragments. Since then, a grave has appeared at the civil cemetery in Lychkovo. A grave in which rests the ashes of innocently dead children.

The sculpture consists of several parts. Mounted on a granite slab is a cast bronze flame from the explosion that threw the child into the air. At the foot of the stove are the toys he dropped. The author of the monument, for the construction of which the Lychkovo Veterans’ House received more than half a million rubles from all over Russia, was Moscow sculptor, People’s Artist of Russia Alexander Burganov. The height of the sculptural composition is about three meters.

It was a terrible tragedy. But even more terrible is the post-war unconsciousness: the Lychkov events were simply forgotten. Only a modest mass grave with the inscription “Children of Leningrad” reminded of them. Local women who witnessed the bloody bombing took care of the grave for almost 60 years.

In 2003, a small monument was erected at the burial site - a bronze sculpture, which always has fresh flowers.

On May 4, 2005, on the eve of the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Great Victory, a solemn opening ceremony of the memorial “To the Children Who Died in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945” took place in the village of Lychkovo.

The monument was erected on the station square, not far from the site of the tragedy. Trains will pass by the monument every day, and children's voices will always be heard through the noise of the wheels. The memory of the terrible tragedy that claimed children's lives will always be alive here.

The poet A. Molchanov wrote a poem “In memory of the Leningrad children who died at the Lychkovo station”, it contains the following words:

Is it possible to forget

Like children in parts

Collected

So that in a mass grave,

Like fallen soldiers

Bury?..

3. Monument to children - victims of concentration camps.

A monument to children who died in Nazi concentration camps was erected near the Makhovaya Tower in the city of Smolensk. Author: Alexander Parfenov. The monument is in the shape of a fluffy dandelion, made up of figures of children, and the names of concentration camps are written on the leaves of the flower: Auschwitz, Dachau, Buchenwald.

4. "Flower of Life"

In 1968, Tanya Savicheva's diary was immortalized in stone, being integral part Memorial complex "Flower of Life" on Poklonnaya Hill, dedicated to all the children who died in the siege ring.

5. In memory of tens of thousands of Soviet prisoners of war

In the city of Vyazma, on the eve of the Day of Remembrance and Sorrow, a memorial was opened in memory of the tens of thousands of fallen participants in the defense of Moscow. It was installed at the site of mass graves of victims of the German transit camp “Dulag-184”. In March of this year, the Russian Military Historical Society took control of the situation with ownerless graves on the territory of the former camp “Dulag-184”, responding to an appeal from the public organization “Vyazemsky Memorial”. The organization, which is engaged in restoring the memory of the victims of the German transit camp, includes relatives of camp prisoners, searchers, veterans of the Great Patriotic War, historians, public figures, and volunteers.

45 burial ditches 100 meters long and four wide with the remains of prisoners of war remained after the Nazi occupation of Vyazma (October 1941-March 12, 1943) at the intersection of Repin and Kronstadt streets. Here, in the building of the current Vyazemsky meat processing plant - then it was an unfinished aviation plant without a roof, windows and doors, in October 1941, the invaders organized the Dulag-184 transit camp. In the first months of the war, it was surrounded by militias who survived the “meat grinder” of the Vyazemsky cauldron. Many were brought from the battlefield in serious condition. In the first winter of 1941-1942 alone, up to 70 thousand prisoners died. The dead were dumped into huge ditches. Seventy years later, the mass grave site has become a wasteland. At the request of local residents, in the 90s of the last century, a modest stele with a bell was installed in a vacant lot in memory of the tragedy that happened here. There were five “death factories” on the territory of Vyazma.

The author of the project for the Vyazemsky monument in memory of the victims of the German transit camp is People's Artist of Russia, one of the leading sculptors of our country, Salavat Shcherbakov. The memorial consists of three concrete steles 3-4 meters high. On the central stele, in bronze relief, the soldiers and civilians who died here are represented. Behind them there were spruce trees and a camp tower. The composition is framed by photographs of people taken from original photographs of the dead, given to the sculptor by relatives and search engines. 50 photographic images are embedded in the surface of the monument.

Casting for the monument was made in the city of Zhukovsky, Moscow region, the granite slab was ordered in St. Petersburg, concrete bases- in Smolensk. The foundation was made in Vyazma, the bronze relief was made in Moscow. The total weight of all structural elements is about 20 tons.

Former prisoner Sofia Anvaer recalled: “Through barbed wire The city residents saw our suffering and tried to help. Women and children wrapped in rags approached the wire and threw packages with some kind of food. The prisoners rushed towards them, and a machine gun banged on the tower. People fell with their hands outstretched to food. Women on the other side of the fence also fell. It was impossible to help us. Thirst joined the pangs of hunger and cold. It was no longer possible to go into the basement where there was water - the entrance to it was blocked by a mountain of corpses. People drank, straining through a rag the liquid mud from the yard, mixed with thousands of boots.”

6. "People of the world, stand up for a minute"

The main components of the complex “People of the World Stand Up for a Minute” installed in Moscow, in memory of the prisoners fascist camps death during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 are three black granite slabs."

The first slab symbolizes juvenile prisoners concentration camps who were tortured there during the war.

The second slab is dedicated to all prisoners - men and women.

The third memorial plate symbolizes prisoners - Soviet military personnel and is dedicated to the memory of those killed in the death camps of Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen, Dachau, Ravensbrück and Auschwitz.

7. "Tragedy of Nations"

In Moscow, on Poklonnaya Hill in 1997, the monument “Tragedy of Nations” was erected, its author is Zurab Tsereteli.

The sculpture commemorates the victims of the fascist genocide.

8. Sculptural composition “Come back victorious!”

On May 8, 2009, in the exhibition complex of the museum under open air"Salute, Victory!" in the park named after Frunze of Orenburg held the opening of a new sculptural

compositions. The sculptural group depicts an Orenburg woman with children mournfully seeing off the head of the family to the front, made by Moscow sculptor Vasily Nikolaev and dedicated to the feat of Orenburg women, workers, mothers during the harsh war years.

9. Sculpture "Motherland"

The sculpture "Motherland" is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the largest sculpture-statue in the world at the time of construction. Its height is 52 meters, arm length is 20 meters and sword length is 33 meters. The total height of the sculpture is 85 meters. The weight of the sculpture is 8 thousand tons, and the sword is 14 tons. Currently, the statue ranks 11th on the list of tallest statues in the world.

The silhouette of the sculpture “Motherland” was taken as a basis when developing the coat of arms and flag of the Volgograd region.

At the foot of the Motherland monument, the commander of the 62nd Army, who especially distinguished himself in Battle of Stalingrad, Marshal of the Soviet Union Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov.

The statue is an allegorical image of the Motherland, calling its sons to fight the enemy!

10. Monument to a grieving mother

In Zadonsk there is also a wonderful monument to Mother - Maria Matveevna Frolova, the mother of 12 children, who lost everyone at the front.

11. Praskovya Eremeevna Volodichkina and her deceased sons.

“Sometimes it seems to me that the soldiers

Those who did not come from the bloody fields,

They once did not die in our land,

And they turned into white cranes...”

Memory cranes can increasingly be found on the ground. They set off on an eternal flight from various places in our Motherland.

IN Samara region the maternal valor of the remarkable Russian woman Praskovya Eremeevna Volodichkina and the military feat of her fallen sons are immortalized. When the war began, all nine Volodichkin brothers, one after another, left to defend their Fatherland. Already in June-July 1941 they fought in different sectors of the front. Praskovya Eremeevna had to accompany them alone, since the head of the family, Pavel Vasilyevich, had died by that time. But the mother didn’t even say goodbye to the youngest, Nikolai. He just handed over a short note, rolled up: “Mom, dear mother. Don't worry, don't worry. Don't worry. We're going to the front. Let's defeat the fascists and we'll all come back to you. Wait. Yours Kolka.”

But Praskovya Eremeevna did not wait for her sons. No one. Five of them - Nikolai, Andrey, Fedor, Mikhail, Alexander - died in 1941-1943. After the fifth funeral, the mother’s heart could not stand it. The sixth - to Vasily, who died in January 1945, came to an empty house, to which all wounded in the summer of 45 Peter, Ivan and Konstantin returned. But one after another they began to die from numerous wounds received at the front.

And on May 7, 1995, on a steep cliff not far from the house located on the street with the symbolic name Krasnoarmeyskaya, a majestic memorial made of granite and bronze stood up. Nine bronze cranes rush into the sky from an 11-meter stele. And in front of her stands a sculpture of Praskovya Eremeevna. Ahead is a 7-ton granite monument with the names of all the sons and their mother and the text: “To the Volodichkin family - grateful Russia.”

12. To the patriotic mother Anastasia Kupriyanova and her deceased sons

In 1975, a monument to the patriotic mother Anastasia Kupriyanova and her deceased sons was solemnly opened in Zhodino. The composition of the monument includes two parts: on one pedestal there is a figure of a mother escorting her children to the front, a little in front are five sons going into battle. The younger one fell behind and turned around, as if he wanted to say: “Wait for us with victory, mom!”

We need to remember that once there was a terrible war, and Mother lost five of her sons. Victory in this war came at a high price, and we must all take care of the world so that our mothers never mourn their sons again.

13. Monument to “Mothers of War”

IN Leningrad region A monument to the "Mothers of War" was unveiled in the village of Bobrovka, Troitsky district.

14. “Sorrow Square” in St. Petersburg

The sculpture of the memorial complex is a sculpture of the mother, located on the “Sorrow Square”. It contains all the pain of mothers who lost their relatives in the war.

15. Victory Monument in Penza

One of the main regional monuments dedicated to labor and military exploits in the Great Patriotic War in the city of Penza is the Victory Monument. The memorial, installed on May 9, 1975 in a new microdistrict, which later became the central district of the city, has a height of 5.6 meters and is now part of the architectural composition of Victory Square. The authors of the monument were: the St. Petersburg sculptor who participated in the creation of the monument to the First Settler, V.G. Kozenyuk, G.D. Yastrebenetsky, N.O. Teplov and architect V.A. Sokhin.

The Monument to Labor and Military Glory is presented in the form of a bronze figure of a woman with a child on her left shoulder and a warrior-defender holding a rifle with one hand and protecting his mother with the other. The sculptural composition stands on pedestals of different heights, the most high point which is a gilded branch in the hands of a child. The monument is located in the very center of five granite flights of stairs, having the shape of a five-pointed star, the continuation of which is five streets: Lunacharsky, Lenin, Karpinsky, Kommunisticheskaya and Pobedy Avenue. In a niche of one of the walls of the ramp there is a unique Book of Memory about 114 thousand fellow countrymen who died during the Great Patriotic War, whose names were known at the time of the opening of the monument. Near the monument burns the Eternal Flame, lit in Moscow at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and delivered in an army armored car to Penza.

The Victory Monument, opened on the thirtieth anniversary of the Great Victory in Penza, still serves as a place of honor guard service on May 9, February 23 and on the day of memory and sorrow - June 22.

16. Monument to Misha Panikakha

The monument to Misha Panikakha was opened in May 1975 in Volgograd. The creators of the monument, architect Kharitonov and designer Belousov, depicted Misha at the moment of his heroic throw with a grenade in his hands on the main Nazi tank.

17. Monument to Soviet soldiers who died in the battles for the liberation of South Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands in 1945.

18. Murmansk memorial “Defenders of the Soviet Arctic during the Great Patriotic War”

It represents a huge figure of a soldier standing on the top of one of the Murmansk hills and visible from a great distance. In general, thanks to the song written in 1968, many single monuments began to be called “Alyosha” in the Soviet Union, including in Murmansk.

19. Monument to the “Defenders of Moscow”

40th kilometer of Leningradskoe highway. The city of Zelenograd is one of the new and most beautiful districts of Moscow. It is spread out freely in the forest near Moscow in the area of ​​​​the Kryukovo station. Here in November-December 1941. The defenders of the Motherland fought to the death. From here they began their victorious journey to the west. In the history of the great battle for Moscow, the battle of Kryukovo is one of its brightest pages. The soldiers of the Eighth Guards named after I.V. had the opportunity to defend Kryukovo. Panfilova rifle division, second guards cavalry corps of General L.M. Dovator and the first guards tank brigade of General M.E. Katukova. Desperately, despising death, they fought for every street, for every house. Our soldiers retreated only on the night of December 3. They understood that Kryukovo had become a stronghold of the enemy, who had penetrated our defenses near Moscow. Knocking him out of these positions is a task of paramount importance. On January 4-6, units of the 44th Cavalry and 8th Cavalry struck the enemy dug in in Kryukovo. guards divisions together with the 1st Tank Brigade. The Nazis stubbornly resisted and did everything to hold back the onslaught of our troops. In these battles, our soldiers performed feats of unfading glory. Thousands of soldiers and officers died, at the cost of their lives, pushing the enemy back from Moscow.

June 24, 1974 The opening of a monument to the defenders of Moscow, created according to the design of architects I. Pokrovsky, Yu. Sverdlovsky and A. Shteiman, took place. At the grand opening there were those who walked along the roads of war to Berlin and those who, remaining in the rear, forged formidable weapons, and those who, born after the war, never heard the thunder of guns.

On the Hill of Glory, which forever covered the ashes of the heroes, stands a forty-meter-tall obelisk in the shape of a triangular bayonet. The contours of a five-pointed star are stamped on it. At an angle to the obelisk there is a monumental stele with a bas-relief of a warrior. A heavy helmet shades his eyes, looking sternly out of the stone. A laurel branch is carved on one of the blocks. Nearby are the words: “1941. Here the defenders of Moscow, who died in battle for their Motherland, remained immortal forever.”

At the foot of the hill on a black marble slab is a bronze bowl. According to her inside an ornament made of red copper is laid - an oak branch - a symbol of eternal life. On the bowl is the inscription: “The Motherland will never forget her sons.”

19. Monument to the "Defenders of Moscow"

On the Leningradskoye Highway (23rd kilometer) there is another famous one - a composition of huge anti-tank "Hedgehogs".

20. “Rear to Front”

The monument located in the city of Magnitogorsk. Its height is 15 meters. The monument is a two-figure composition of a worker and a warrior. The worker is oriented to the east, towards the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works. Warrior to the west, towards where the enemy was located during the Great Patriotic War. It is implied that the sword, forged on the banks of the Urals, was then raised by the Motherland in Stalingrad and lowered after the victory in Berlin. The composition also includes an eternal flame in the form of a granite star-flower.

The monument is complemented by two human-sized trapezoids, on which are written in bas-relief the names of Magnitogorsk residents who received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union in the Great Patriotic War.

On May 9, 2005, the opening of another addition took place, made in the form of two triangular sections, symmetrically filled with elevations of their granite, on which are carved the names of Magnitogorsk residents who died in the Great Patriotic War. In total there are more than 14,000 names.

Conclusion

In the course of our work, we found out that the monuments are dedicated not only to heroic soldiers who shed blood at the front, but also to children, mothers, and home front workers. Monuments were erected not only in our country, but also in other countries whose liberators were Soviet soldiers. Their feat is remembered and honored there.

When we conducted a survey about the need to install monuments, everyone answered that it was very important. It is necessary to remember and know your history.

In our work we collected information about many monuments. I was especially touched by the sculptures dedicated to children and mothers.

Literature

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Memorial of Glory.
(Orsk)
The Memorial of Glory is located in the Leninsky district on Victory Square near Mira Avenue.
Opened on May 9, 1965. In 1967, the Eternal Flame was lit. The memorial was built on the mass grave of soldiers Soviet army who died during the Great Patriotic War in Orsky hospitals (1941-1945). On April 27, 1965, the remains of 216 soldiers were reburied from a closed city cemetery at the site of the future memorial in 12 urns. Initially, a block of unpolished Orsk variegated jasper and a bronze plaque was installed, on which a monument to a Soviet soldier in Berlin's Treptower Park was depicted in relief. A bowl with the Eternal Flame was installed in front of the stone. The entire structure was placed on a concrete pedestal. The authors of the monument are Orsk architects E.Ya. Markov, B.G. Zavodovsky, A.N. Silin. In 1975, the monument was reconstructed: the mass grave was lined with polished red Orsk jasper.
In its center is the Eternal Flame, above which hangs a bronze wreath of Glory. Behind the grave there is a wall of black stone with an inscription "Motherland! The Russian land, watered with the blood of its soldiers, honors their memory forever". Behind the wall there were spruce trees. Authors: Orsk architects P.P. Priymak, G.I. Sokolov, V.N. Yakimov. During the reconstruction of the memorial in 1988, the lining of the military grave was replaced with a green-black coil; marble slabs with the names of soldiers who died in Orsky hospitals, Orchan soldiers who died on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War, and those who died in Afghanistan were installed along the perimeter of the memorial.
The black stone inscription is transferred to white marble slabs in the center of the memorial.
In 1995, additional memorial pylons were installed with the names of Orchans who died in 1941-1945, in the Afghan war of 1979-1989, in hot spots of Russia (North Caucasus) in the 1990s.
In April - August 2000, the Glory Square was reconstructed, a second line of pylons was installed, where more than 8,000 additional names of Orchan residents who died in hostilities were added. The main part of the memorial complex is equipped with lawns, flower beds and plantings of deciduous and coniferous trees.
On May 8, 2008, on the eve of Victory Day, the opening of the Alley of Heroes took place on the territory of Glory Square. The memorial has changed its appearance for the fourth time and is becoming better and more significant.
The idea of ​​this project appeared back in the eighties of the last century. Then, taking into account the wishes of war veterans, the chief artist of Orsk P. Priymak worked on a project for the reconstruction of the square and envisaged opening the Alley of Heroes. But it was only now possible to install nine bronze busts of Heroes of the Soviet Union and two Heroes of Russia, thanks to the decision of the current head of the city.
Preparations for the implementation of the alley project began in 2008, when the necessary photographic materials were sent to Chelyabinsk. Sculpted busts of Orchan heroes creative Group Chelyabinsk sculptors under the leadership of the chairman of the Chelyabinsk branch of the Union of Artists of Russia E. Vargot. Professionals managed to convey not only the external similarity of the defenders of the Motherland, but also their character. As the sculptors themselves assure, the images were created based on the personal history of each hero. The bronze busts, weighing about 2 tons each, were installed on granite pedestals by specialists from the Requiem municipal unitary enterprise.
On the pylons erected on both sides of the alley are the names of the heroes of the Orsk land who won the Victory and defended the freedom of not only Russians, but also other peoples.

Literature

1. Memorial of Glory // Orsk City Encyclopedia. - Orenburg, 2007. - P. 219.
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Monuments to soldiers of the Great Patriotic War

Nationwide memorial military glory

According to Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 1297 of November 17, 2009, the memorial architectural ensemble of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier was given the status of a National Memorial of Military Glory and it was included in the State Code of Particularly Valuable Objects of Cultural Heritage of the Peoples of the Russian Federation

Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is a memorial architectural ensemble in Moscow, in the Alexander Garden, near the walls of the Kremlin.

On December 3, 1966, to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the defeat of German troops near Moscow, the ashes of the unknown soldier were transferred from the mass grave at the 41st kilometer of the Leningradskoye Highway (at the entrance to the city of Zelenograd) and solemnly buried in the Alexander Garden.

On May 8, 1967, a memorial architectural ensemble was opened at the burial site “ Tomb of the Unknown Soldier", created according to the design of architects D. I. Burdin, V. A. Klimov, Yu. R. Rabaev and sculptor N. V. Tomsky. The Eternal Flame was lit at the grave by L. I. Brezhnev, who accepted the torch from Hero of the Soviet Union A. P. Maresyev. On tombstone a bronze composition was installed - a soldier's helmet and a laurel branch lying on a battle flag. In the center of the memorial there is a niche with the inscription - “Your name is unknown, your feat is immortal” (suggested by S.V. Mikhalkov) made of labradorite with a bronze five-pointed star in the center, in in the middle of which burns the Eternal Flame of Glory.

To the left of the grave is a wall made of crimson quartzite with the inscription: “1941 TO THE FALL FOR THE HOMELAND 1945”; on the right is a granite alley with blocks of dark red porphyry containing capsules with the soil of hero cities: “Stalingrad” (from Mamayev Kurgan) - until September 2004 the inscription read “Volgograd”, “Leningrad” (from Piskarevsky cemetery), “ Kerch" (from the defense lines), "Kyiv" (from the foot of the Obelisk to the participants in the defense of the city), "Minsk" (from the defense lines), "Novorossiysk" (from the defense lines), "Odessa" (from the defense lines), "Sevastopol" (from the Malakhov Kurgan), “Tula” (from the defense lines), “Brest Fortress” (from the foot of the walls).

On December 12, 1997, in accordance with the Decree of the President of Russia, post No. 1 of the honor guard was moved from the Lenin Mausoleum to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The guard is carried out by military personnel of the Presidential Regiment. The changing of the guard occurs every hour. In connection with the work on the creation of the National Military Glory Memorial, the guard of honor was not displayed from December 16, 2009 to February 19, 2010. Also during this period, the ceremonies of laying wreaths and flowers at the memorial were stopped. On December 27, 2009, with military honors, temporarily for the period of reconstruction, the Eternal Flame was moved to Poklonnaya Hill in Victory Park.

On Defender of the Fatherland Day, February 23, 2010, the Eternal Flame was returned to the Kremlin wall.

A new element has appeared in the National Memorial of Military Glory for the 65th anniversary of the Great Victory - a stele in honor of the cities of military glory, which is installed next to the Alley of Hero Cities, near the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

On the days of remembrance dedicated to the Great Patriotic War, statesmen, veterans, delegations, heads of foreign states and governments lay wreaths and flowers at the “Tomb of the Unknown Soldier”.

Eternal flame of memory and glory

Eternal flame- a constantly burning fire, symbolizing the eternal memory of something or someone. Continuous combustion is achieved by supplying gas to a specific location where a spark occurs. Usually included in the memorial complex. The first Eternal Flame in the USSR was lit at the monument to fallen heroes near the village of Pervomaisky, Shchekinsky district, Tula region, on May 9, 1957. In many cities of the former Soviet Union, the Eternal Flame burns in memory of those killed in the Great Patriotic War.

Three Eternal Flames burn in Moscow: on Tomb of the unknown soldier, on Poklonnaya Hill, on Preobrazhenskoye Cemetery.

Eternal Flame on Poklonnaya Hill

Shot from the NTV channel On April 30, 2010, the second Eternal Flame was lit on Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow. It was decided to light a fire on Poklonnaya Hill at the request of the Moscow Veterans Council. From December 2009 to February 2010, the flame was located here, moved from the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier during the reconstruction of the memorial complex near the Kremlin walls. The fire was later returned to its historical location. In addition, near the Eternal Flame on Poklonnaya Hill, it was decided to create a kind of Post No. 1 for students of cadet corps. Ten times a year, during days of military glory and major public holidays, young guys will stand watch here. The torch, lit at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the Alexander Garden, was carried with honors to the memorial on Poklonnaya Hill. The honor of lighting a new “hearth of memory” was given to the honorary citizen of Moscow, participant in the battle for Moscow, chairman of the Moscow Council of War Veterans, Labor and Law Enforcement Agencies Vladimir Dolgikh, Hero of Russia Colonel Vyacheslav Sivko, member of the Moscow children's public organization “Commonwealth” Nikolai Zimogorov. Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, who took part in the ceremony, said that the new Eternal Flame will in no way compete with the memorial at the Kremlin wall. On the contrary, they will complement each other.

Eternal flame at Preobrazhenskoe cemetery

On April 30, 2010, a solemn ceremony of lighting the third Flame of Memory in Moscow took place at the military memorial necropolis of the Preobrazhenskoe cemetery. A torch with a piece of the main Eternal Flame of the country at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the Alexander Garden arrived at the Preobrazhenskoye Cemetery after the lighting of the Fire of Memory and Glory on Poklonnaya Hill.

The eternal flame at the Preobrazhenskoe cemetery was lit because it was the first and only one in Moscow - it was brought here in 1956 from Leningrad, from the Field of Mars. It burned until the pipes wore out. The fire was lit only on holidays.

Preobrazhensky necropolis is the largest military memorial in Moscow. Military personnel who died of wounds in Moscow hospitals during the Great Patriotic War are buried here. Some burials were individual, some were fraternal. 10,678 people are buried here. Some mass graves contain up to 20 burials. There are fewer and fewer nameless people. There are only the graves of 43 fighters without plaques. In addition to mass graves, the cemetery contains the graves of 41 Heroes of the Soviet Union, 3 Heroes of Russia and 3 full holders of the Order of Glory.

Obelisk to commemorate the conferment of an honorary title on Moscow - “ Hero City»

The obelisk commemorates the awarding of the honorary title of Hero City to Moscow. The Motherland highly appreciated the contribution of Muscovites to the defeat of the enemy: hundreds of thousands of Muscovites were awarded orders and medals, more than 800 of them were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, over 800 thousand people were awarded the medal “For Valiant” labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.” By the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of May 8, 1965, for outstanding services to the Motherland, mass heroism, courage and fortitude shown by the working people of the capital in the fight against the Nazi invaders, Moscow was awarded an honorary the title of “Hero City” with the presentation of the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal.

To commemorate the awarding of the honorary title “Hero City” to Moscow, a 40-meter “Obelisk” was erected in the park at the fork of Kutuzovsky Prospekt and Bolshaya Dorogomilovskaya Street. The “Obelisk” was opened on May 9, 1977. The authors of the monument are architects G. Zakharov, 3. Chernysheva, sculptor A. Shcherbakov.

Lined with gray ashlar granite, the “Obelisk” ends with a five-pointed gold star. On the facade of the monument there is the text of the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR "On conferring the honorary title "Hero City" on the city of Moscow", made of applied gilded bronze letters. Above the text is a bas-relief Order of Lenin cast in bronze and gilded. Three 4-meter granite figures - a warrior , a worker and a female worker - flank and close the obelisk, trapezoidal in plan. Each figure is located on its own pedestal. The entire structure is raised on a covered hill with a circular platform, to which three granite stairs lead. The monument expresses the unity of the front and the rear, the greatness and heroism of the glorious. defenders of Moscow, who defended the capital of the Soviet state from enemy invasion.

Monument "Defenders of the Russian Land"

“View photo” The monument “Defenders of the Russian Land” was opened in 1998 at the intersection of Kutuzovsky Prospekt and Minskaya Street. Sculptor A. Bichugov.

The monument personifies the continuity of generations of defenders of the Motherland: the warrior Ancient Rus' with a sword in his hands, a soldier of the Patriotic War with Napoleon and a hero of the Great Patriotic War. Monument - Stele of the 1st Guards Moscow-Minsk Motorized Rifle Division The monument was erected in 1976 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the creation of the division and its exploits in the Great Patriotic War. Located on the Moscow-Minsk Division Square (the intersection of Malaya Filevskaya and Minskaya streets), Minskaya, 13. Architect O.K. Gurulev, artist-architect S.I. Smirnov, sculptor I.P. Kazansky. On the monument there is the inscription “Square of the MOSCOW-MINSK DIVISION.” Below it are bas-reliefs of the orders awarded to the division: Lenin, Red Banner, Suvorov, Kutuzov, and the Guards badge. Below are the inscriptions: “The square of the Moscow-Minsk Division was named in 1976 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the formation of the 1st Guards Proletarian Moscow-Minsk Division and its military exploits in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.” “The stela was installed by the chiefs of Metrostroy.”

Victory Memorial Complex on Poklonnaya Hill

Victory Park (in Moscow) is a memorial complex for the Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. in the west of Moscow. The memorial complex was opened on May 9, 1995 to mark the 50th anniversary great Victory. Victory Park is limited from the north by Kutuzovsky Prospekt, from the west by Minskaya Street, from the east by General Ermolov Street, from the south by Brothers Fonchenko Street and residential buildings, located near the Moscow-Sortirovochnaya station of the Kyiv direction of the Moscow railway. In the eastern part of the memorial complex there is Poklonnaya Hill, not far from it is the Moscow metro station Victory Park .

History of Victory Park. It was first proposed to build a monument to the people's feat back in 1942 (architect J. Chernikhovsky). But it was not possible to implement it in wartime conditions. On February 23, 1958, a memorial granite sign was installed on Poklonnaya Hill with the inscription: “Here will be built a monument to the Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.” At the same time, trees were planted around and a park was laid out, which was named after Victory. In the 1970-1980s, 194 million rubles were collected for the construction of the monumental monument from community cleanups and personal contributions from citizens. Subsequently, funds were allocated by the state and the Moscow government. A plot of land of 135 hectares was allocated for the entire complex. In the 90s, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Victory, a Victory memorial complex was built and opened on May 9, 1995.

Main alley “Years of War”

The main alley “Years of War”, located between Victory Square and the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War, consists of five terraces symbolizing the five years of war. 1418 fountains were erected over five water surfaces - the war lasted for so many days and blood was shed. In the center of the square is a 141.8 meter high stele, crowned by the goddess of victory Nike. At the foot of the obelisk, on a granite podium, there is a statue of St. George the Victorious, who kills a snake with a spear - a symbol of the victory of good over evil.

Victory Monument - obelisk on Pobediteley Square in Victory Park on Poklonnaya Gora

The project architect is Zurab Tsereteli, design and calculations are by TsNIIPSK, under the leadership of B.V. Ostroumov. An obelisk made of especially strong steel weighing 1000 tons and 141.8 meters high (10 centimeters for each day of the war), covered with bronze bas-reliefs. At a height of 122 meters, a 25-ton bronze figure of the goddess of victory Nike is attached to the stele. At the foot of the obelisk on a granite podium is a statue of St. George the Victorious slaying a dragon with a spear. The Victory Monument was opened on May 9, 1995 as part of the Victory Memorial Complex.

Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War

The main object of the complex is the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War, founded in 1993 on the initiative of veterans of the Great Patriotic War. Opened on May 9, 1995 during the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Victory. The museum building was built according to the design of a group of architects headed by A.T. Polyansky. The general fund of the museum is 50 collections with a volume of more than 50 thousand storage units.

In front of the museum is Pobediteley Square, to which the central alley of Victory Park leads from Kutuzovsky Prospekt. In the museum building there is a Hall of Memory, in which Books of Memory are located in special display cases - 385 volumes in which the names of people who died in the war are written; Hall of Fame, six dioramas dedicated to the main events of the war. The museum's holdings include authentic weapons and military equipment, numismatics, philately and philocarty, household items, a large number of handwritten documentary and photographic materials, fine art materials telling about the Great Patriotic War, the joint struggle of the countries of the anti-Hitler coalition against Germany and its allies. The museum houses the Victory Banner, hoisted on April 30, 1945 over the Reichstag in Berlin. Exposition of the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.

Hall of Memory

Hall of Memory on ground floor. The sculptural group of Lev Kerbel “The Weeping Mother” based on Michelangelo’s “Pieta” is installed here. Monument to the victims of the Great Patriotic War. The woman bending over the defeated warrior in grief is a mother mourning her son, a brother’s sister, and a husband’s wife. This is the face of sadness, loss, grief, always experienced in its own way. But the sculpture also has a meaning that is common to all. Five hundred years ago, Michelangelo sculpted the Pieta from marble - “Christ, taken from the crucifixion, is stretched out on the knees of the Mother of God mourning him.” This plot is old, Christian, so the sculpture takes on a new meaning. The fallen warrior is mourned by the Mother of God, and he is like Christ, who sacrificed himself to save people. But that's not all. In the teachings of Orthodoxy, Rus', Russia is the home of the Mother of God. Hence the well-known concept - Motherland. She mourns for her Savior. In Russian icon painting there is a subject similar to the drink - the Assumption. The apostles and saints on earth mourn the Mother of God; appearing in the radiance of Glory, Christ takes her soul, in the form of a swaddled baby, to heaven. Along the walls in the Hall of Memory - glass cabinets, which contains 385 volumes of the Book of Memory listing all those who died in battles for the Motherland and those missing in action. Information about each of them can also be obtained using e-book In memory. The military-historical exhibition is located around the entire perimeter of the building. The central relic is a table from the Yalta Conference in 1945, where Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill met.

Hall of Fame

The main one in the Pantheon of Victory Park is the Hall of Fame. At the top of the dome of the Hall of Fame is the Order of Victory. The Hall of Fame is decorated with the sculpture “Soldier - Winner”, created by sculptor V. Znoba. In the hall there are 6 dioramas created by famous masters of the Studio of Military Artists named after. M.B. Grekova: “Counter-offensive of Soviet troops near Moscow in December 1941”, “Union of fronts. Stalingrad", "Siege of Leningrad", "Kursk Bulge", "Crossing the Dnieper", "Storm of Berlin". Carved on the marble walls of the hall are 11,717 names of war participants awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, the most high award in the Great Patriotic War.

Monument "Spirit of the Elbe"

Poklonnaya Mountain. Monument "Spirit of the Elbe". Dedicated to the meeting of the Allied forces on the Elbe River in April 1945. Installed in 1995, the Victory Park metro station. Types Photos Sights of Moscow. The monument was opened in 1995 in the western part of Victory Park on Poklonnaya Hill. Address: Poklonnaya Gora, Victory Park, Victory Park metro station. The monument “Spirit of the Elbe” is dedicated to the meeting of the Allied forces on the Elbe River in April 1945.

Monument to the Missing

In the mighty sculpture “Missing in Action”, standing on the alley of tankers, there is acute pain and suffering in the appearance of a wounded soldier, and in our hearts there is bitterness and sadness, because heroism and death always walk side by side. This monument perfectly conveys the suffering of soldiers in the war. These heroes are even heroes, because no one will know their names or see their faces at victory parades. The sculptor K. Sokolovsky conveyed all this in his creation in the best possible way. The Monument to the Missing was opened in 1995.

Monument "Tragedy of Nations"

The “Tragedy of Nations” monument is a monument to prisoners of fascist concentration camps, erected in 1997. Sculptor - Zurab Tsereteli. The height of the monument is 8 m. It was originally located on Victory Square.

Monument to Soldiers of the countries participating in the anti-Hitler coalition

The monument to the Soldiers of the countries participating in the anti-Hitler coalition was inaugurated on May 9, 2005 on Partizan Alley. Author - Mikhail Pereyaslavets. A 20-meter stele made of white marble, topped with the emblem of the United Nations (UN), is located in the center of the Alley of Partisans, one of the most beautiful alleys of Victory Park. At the foot of the stele there is a pedestal on which four bronze figures of soldiers of the USSR, USA, Great Britain and France rise.

Monument to “Spaniards-volunteers who fought in the Red Army and died in the fight against fascism during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.”

The monument was erected in 2001 in the western part of Victory Park on Poklonnaya Hill. Architect A. Mikhe. Engineer S.I. Vorontsov.

Exhibition of military equipment

File:Voorug pgm.JPGIn Victory Park, a unique open-air exhibition of military equipment and engineering and fortification structures has been launched. More than 300 samples of heavy equipment of the USSR and its allies, Germany and its allies that took part in the battles are presented here.

See also: Official website: http://www.poklonnayagora.ru/

Monument to the soldiers of the Moscow Air Defense on the Square of Defenders of the Sky in Krylatskoye Erected in 1995. The authors of the monument, sculptor L. E. Kerbel and architect E. G. Rozanov, immortalized the feat of all air defense heroes: pilots and sky scouts, anti-aircraft gunners, balloon barrage fighters. The monument is an expressive and laconic composition: in front is the figure of the Motherland with a baby in her arms, saving our future. As a historical background to the ongoing event, at a distance, 13 meters from this sculpture, there is a screen made of metal structures in the form of a stylized radar installation with bronze high reliefs, on it are genuine wartime anti-aircraft guns with episodes of the heroic defense of the Moscow sky. Here is an air battle in which our fighter defeated the fascist vulture. Here are the girls in military uniform

carrying a balloon along the embankment. All these are pictures of the war years. And on the back of the screen are the names of the air defense units that defended Moscow from fascist aviation. Monument to the Fallen (Heroes - Defenders of the Motherland)

at the Brest cinema. Address: st. Yartsevskaya, 21. Sculptor Alexander Burganov. Memorial sign to the underground members of the Young Guard.

Installed in the park near the church at the intersection of Molodogvardeyskaya and Yartsevskaya streets. Molodogvardeyskaya Street is named in memory of the underground heroes of Krasnodon and their immortal feat

during the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945. Monuments those who died in the Great Patriotic War on the territories of enterprises

Western District

Monument to those killed during the Great Patriotic War, MRTZ workers. Installed on the territory of MRTZ. Address: st. Vereiskaya, 29.

The monument to VILSA workers who died during the Great Patriotic War was opened in 1964. Address: Mozhaisky district of Moscow, st. Gorbunova, 2.

Monument to the workers of the Rublevsk waterworks who did not return from the battlefields during the Great Patriotic War. Installed on the territory of the Rublevskaya water station. Architect Podstavkin P.K.

Memorial to those who fell and died from wounds in the Great Patriotic War at the Kuntsevo cemetery

Memorial at the Common Grave of soldiers who died in the Great Patriotic War and died from wounds. Installed on the initiative of enterprises of the Kuntsevo district at the Kuntsevo cemetery in honor of the 30th anniversary of the Victory in 1975. An eternal flame burns at the memorial. Address: Kuntsevo Cemetery (Ryabinovaya St.)

Memorial plaques to the heroes of the Great Patriotic War

Memorial plaque on Artamonov Street, houses No. 3 and No. 20, named in 1961 in honor of Hero of the Soviet Union Alexei Alekseevich Artamonov. School students, working on the project “Names of Heroes for the Streets of the Western District,” discovered an error in the name of the hero on the memorial plaque on houses No. 3 and No. 20 on Artamonova Street, and they contacted the district government. The head of the council, Anatoly Alekseevich Stolpovsky, supported the initiative: it was decided to eliminate the inaccuracy and install a new plaque in memory of Hero A.A. Artamonov to coincide with the Victory Day. May 9, 2007 new board. The opening ceremony was attended by the hero's relatives - the wife of his son T.I. Artamonova, granddaughter Elena Vyacheslavovna and great-grandson Vasily.

The memorial plaque on Botylev Street in Rublevo is installed on the building of the former school No. 580, where the military unit that defended Moscow was formed. The street is named in honor of Hero of the Soviet Union Vasily Andreevich Botylev.

Memorial plaque on Bogdanov Street, building 50, named in honor of Marshal of the Armored Forces Bogdanov Semyon Ilyich.

The memorial plaque on Bolshaya Ochakovskaya Street, building 33, perpetuates the memory of the Hero of the Soviet Union, partisan Elena Fedorovna Kolesova.

Memorial plaque on Vatutina Street, house number 1, named in honor of the Hero of the Soviet Union Nikolai Fedorovich Vatutin.

Memorial plaque on Klochkov Street, named in honor of the Hero of the Soviet Union Vasily Georgievich Klochkov.

Memorial plaque on Natasha Kovshova Street, house number 5/2, named in honor of Hero of the Soviet Union, Red Army sniper Natalia Venediktovna Kovshova.

Memorial plaque on Matrosov Street, house No. 1, named in honor of the Red Army private, Hero of the Soviet Union Alexander Matveevich Matrosov.

Memorial plaque on Marshal Nedelin Street, building 40, named in honor of the Hero of the Soviet Union, Chief Marshal of Artillery Mitrofan Ivanovich Nedelin in 1961.

Memorial plaque on Pivchenkova Street, house number 10, named in honor of the Hero of the Soviet Union Vladimir Timofeevich Pivchenkov in 1961.

Memorial plaque on Polosukhina Street, house No. 4, bldg. 1 named in 1966 in honor of V.I. Polosukhin, division commander of the 32nd Infantry Division, glorified in the battles of Mozhaisk.

Memorial plaque on Rashchupkina Street, house number 25, named after the tankman, Hero of the Soviet Union, Andrei Ivanovich Rashchupkin, who lived in this house before the war.

Memorial plaque on Alexey Sviridov Street, building No. 1, named after the hero of the Soviet Union Alexey Andreevich Sviridov in 1965.

Memorial plaque on Tolbukhin Street, building 8, named in honor of Marshal - Hero of the Soviet Union Tolbukhin Fedor Ivanovich.

There is no family in Russia where they will not tell you about the tragic loss loved one during the Great Patriotic War. We owe those events not only terrible losses, but also an unprecedented rise in national self-awareness. Grief and suffering have always made people sensitive to injustice. Remember the films of the post-war years - Hollywood, with its sky-high budgets, will never come close to those masterpieces with their truthfulness and nobility.

The way a country lying in ruins rose from its knees in a matter of years inspired justified fear in geopolitical enemies, and respect and admiration for friends in the socialist camp. History has not preserved such collective feats. And every testimony of those years, every monument to the Great Patriotic War revives the genetic memory of those who are not indifferent, causing noble rage, as in a song, to boil at the sight of arrogant adversaries trying to belittle the contribution of the Russian people to the victory over world evil.

Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

The legendary Eternal Flame, sung in hundreds of works, burning in the Alexander Garden, personifies all those millions of nameless lives thrown into this symbolic flame of war. And the fact that this is the most famous of all memorials, that it is located in the heart of the country, that modern heroes stand guard around the clock, speaks of the significance of the sacrifice and the gratitude of the survivors.

And how many feelings the short inscription evokes - “Your name is unknown, your feat is immortal.” When you read these words, everything inside freezes - this heart responds, remembering the great grief, feelings become numb, imagining the scale of the tragedy, and the imagination draws pictures of burned villages and roads lined with bodies - the corpses of those whose names will never be known. Monuments dedicated to the Great Patriotic War have this effect on all descendants of those terrible days. That is why it is difficult to look at the bloody events in fraternal Ukraine and at all the unjust conflicts in the world, of which there are an alarming number.

Mamayev Kurgan - a monumental monument to the Great Patriotic War

Height 102 - this is how those who shed blood on the Stalingrad front remember this strategic point on the officer’s tablet. Received its name during no less difficult times, Mamayev Kurgan even during the Tatar invasion served as a stronghold for the defenders of their native land. And as if created to be a stronghold of defense, the mound confirmed its calling during the years of a new invasion of evil spirits.

The dry military language, along with the thunder of guns, became a thing of the past, and Hill 102 became the Mound of Glory. Why don’t modern monuments dedicated to the Great Patriotic War evoke the same awe and reverence that comes when looking at the creations of the period of the country’s restoration from the fascist invasion? Probably, you need to experience this historical event, with its pain, death and inevitability, in order to be able to convey the significance of the war and the phenomenon of universal unification.

Motherland

The central figure on Mamayev Kurgan is the colossal figure of a mother leading the sons and daughters of war into battle. Anything less grandiose would not be worthy of serving as a reminder of more than six months of battle and 34.5 thousand fallen. This monument to the Great Patriotic War reaches a height of 85 m, and its weight ranges between 8 thousand tons. But it’s not only the scale of the architecture that makes you stand with respect at height 102. Something in the faces and figures of the statues does not allow you to raise your voice, and your thoughts cannot routinely go through household problems - unusual thoughts about heroism and self-sacrifice creep into your head.

Tribute to the fallen on the Kursk Bulge

And although it is difficult to create a monument in the same way as an artist who has walked through the battlefields, this does not mean that we need to forget about new creations glorifying the exploits of our fathers. Especially when we are talking about an event such as a battle on Kursk Bulge. For a month and a half in the bloody year of 1943, Russia and Ukraine fought together for survival in the Kursk region. With an incredible number of losses, the command managed to put the enemy to flight.

And do not listen to those who talk about the unpreparedness of the generals and that so many casualties could have been avoided. We were up against superior, well-trained units with the best equipment and weapons. We were attacked on the sly, stabbed in the back, and we alone dealt with the monster. No one has the right to judge us as long as we remember and build new monuments to the heroes of the Great Patriotic War.

Despite strange attempts to distort history and whitewash Nazism, we remember the heroes and build new monuments to them of the Great Patriotic War. Children and adults, everyone who follows us, will be left with a majestic arch crowned with the figure of St. George the Victorious. Together with the statue of Zhukov and the tomb of the unknown soldier of the Kursk land, it will preserve the sacrifices of the victors in the hearts of their children for hundreds of years.

Victory Park on Poklonnaya Hill

No matter how much they scold our memory of the war years, there are countless monuments to those times in Russia. Although I would like more such outstanding ones as Victory Park on Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow. This monument to the Great Patriotic War occupies 135 hectares, including a museum dedicated to the exploits of soldiers, a Victory Monument and three churches. The main attraction is the 141.8 m high obelisk. This figure has sacred meaning- The most terrible and bloody war in history lasted for 1481 days. The obelisk is accompanied by the figures of Nike - the goddess of victory and St. George the Victorious by the hand of Z. Tsereteli.

Marshal Pokryshkin

The rich history of monuments to the heroes of the Great Patriotic War includes hundreds of figures and busts dedicated to specific individuals who contributed to the cause of victory. One of them is a bust of three times Hero of the Soviet Union, Air Marshal Alexander Ivanovich Pokryshkin, installed in his homeland - Novosibirsk. Having started the war as a young lieutenant, on August 19, 1944, Pokryshkin became the country's first three-time hero.

Monument to Zhukov in Moscow

The most famous commander, who was repeatedly depicted in stone, was the indomitable Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov. Marshal of the Soviet Union, four times war hero and holder of two orders of victory, he was not just a commander - the soldiers called him father. He could live in the trenches with ordinary soldiers, steadfastly, as in the regulations, enduring all the hardships. Like no one, often to the detriment of their own comfort, cared for the rank and file, which often caused discontent among the officers.

A monument to the Great Patriotic War dedicated to Zhukov can be found in almost every city in Russia. Isn't this evidence of his merits and people's respect? But the most impressive and famous is located on Manezhnaya Square in Moscow. This is a majestic figure by the hand of master Klykov. It is not surprising that a person like Zhukov was honored that so often the names of monuments to the Great Patriotic War contain this legendary surname.

Is it worth remembering

The history of World War II monuments maps the loss and suffering of humanity. Wars have always been an everyday occurrence for people, and the fact that today only those countries that can guarantee to erase the enemy from the map with atomic weapons is safe suggests that peace is a myth. People quickly get used to good things. But as history shows, war is necessary for development - the greatest leaps in the development of nations occur during times of greatest tension. And the countless monuments to the heroes of the Great Patriotic War serve as the best reminder and warning of this.