Famous monuments of the wwii. Forgotten heroes, eternal lights

Every year, on May 9, a holiday is celebrated - Victory Day in the Great Patriotic War against the Nazi invaders.

We owe our freedom to the war heroes who shed their blood, and to all our people who stood up to defend their Fatherland.

Years go by, but we have no right to forget our heritage. Important for long-term preservation historical events and their heroes have monuments.

Monument "Motherland - Mother Calls".

For example, an outstanding monument dedicated to the struggle of our people against fascism - "Motherland - Mother Calls" (Volgograd, Mamaev Kurgan).

On the pedestal is a statue of a woman. In her hand is a sword. It is directed up and forward. Turning back, with the other hand, she urges her sons to follow her.

Despite the large size of the statue (figure 52 meters, sword length 33 meters), one can feel swiftness and ease of movement. The image is convincingly expressed.

The amazing story of the creation of the monument "Alyosha" in the Bulgarian city of Plovdiv.

The monument is dedicated to Soviet soldiers - liberators.

Its prototype was the Russian soldier, Siberian Aleksey Ivanovich Skurlatov.

In August 1941 he was drafted into the army. He was 19 years old. At first

He served in artillery reconnaissance, then due to injury he became a signalman.

In the fall of 1944, when Soviet troops entered Bulgaria, he laid a connection from Sofia to Plovdiv.

Bulgarian people met Soviet soldiers welcome.

Alexei made friends with a member of the Bulgarian resistance S. Vitanov and presented him with his photo, and he gave his photo to the local sculptor V. Rodoslavov. The photograph was used during the work on the monument (1954-1957).

The monument was erected on the Bunardzhik hill in Plovdiv "The Hill of the Liberators".

On a 6-meter pedestal there is an 11.5-meter figure of a soldier, you feel strength, calmness and inner purity. No bravado.

Bulgarians love "Alyosha" and try to protect it from attempts to demolish the monument by some politicians who like to remake history.

Historical truth irritates them. After all, there are bas-reliefs on the pedestal: "The Soviet army is beating the enemy", and "The people are meeting Soviet wars."

But the story continues.

In 1966, the poet Vanshenkin and the composer Kolmanovsky wrote their famous song "Alyosha", and it contains the words: - There is a Russian soldier in Bulgaria over the mountain "Alyosha".

A few years later, by chance, this song was heard in Altai, where Aleksey Ivanovich lived and worked after the war. He remembered that he was there too "

It turns out that the soldier has long been wanted throughout the country.

After a thorough check, it was officially confirmed that he was the prototype of "Alyosha".

Alexey Ivanovich lived for 91 years, both fought and worked, with full dedication.

In recent years, a new patriotic movement has emerged - the Immortal Regiment.

On Victory Day, demonstrators bring with them portraits of their relatives who took part in the Great Patriotic War, both at the front and in the rear.

In conclusion - the poem "The Immortal Regiment".

Immortal Regiment

Dedicated to the participants of the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945).

Long ago those battles rumbled

The soldiers were killed

For the Motherland, freedom,

They could not have done otherwise.

They failed many

Even at your wedding to take a walk,

And destined in deadly battles

At the cost of life

Defend the native land.

The homeland will never forget you.

For all time "Immortal regiment"

You will be a living monument!

And every year, in the spring,

When victorious may will come

Together with us on the squares of the country

The Immortal Regiment will pass ...

May 2017. Rybalkina M.S

75 years ago, on June 22, 1941, the Great Patriotic War began. The victory in it became the greatest test and the greatest pride for our people. Memory dead soldiers, home front workers and civilians immortalized in numerous memorials on the territory of our country. Today, you can visit each of these memorials, lay flowers and remember your heroes, who are in every Russian family.

1. Monument-ensemble "Heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad", Mamayev Kurgan, Volgograd. This is perhaps the most famous memorial dedicated to the Great Patriotic War, majestic and symbolic. It took 8.5 years to build: from 1959 to 1967. Chief architect - Evgeny Vuchetich.

200 steps lead from the foot to the top of the mound. This number was not chosen by chance: that is how many days the Battle of Stalingrad lasted, which put an end to the offensive of the fascist troops. The center of the memorial is the sculpture "The Motherland Calls!" - for many years was the tallest statue in the world: the height is 52 meters. This is 1.5 times the size of the Statue of Liberty in New York. "Motherland" is unique engineering structure made of iron and concrete, with thin walls (25-30 cm), which maintains balance thanks to surprisingly accurate calculations. In addition to it, the memorial complex includes the Square of those who stood to death, the Hall of Military Glory, the Square of Sorrow, Walls-ruins. When visiting the ruin walls and the Hall of Military Glory, you can hear the voice of the legendary Soviet announcer Yuri Levitan and sound fragments specially recorded for the memorial. In 1965, on the Mamayev Kurgan, a capsule of the participants in the war was laid to the descendants, which should be opened on May 9, 2045, on the day of the centenary of Victory. Since 2014, Mamayev Kurgan has been a candidate for inclusion in the UNESCO World Heritage List.

2. Museum-reserve "Prokhorovskoe field", Belgorod region, p. Prokhorovka. On July 12, 1943, the vicinity of the Prokhorovka railway station became the site of the largest tank battle in history.

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More than 1,500 tanks of the Red Army and the fascist invaders fought in it. This fight turned the tide Battle of Kursk and war in general. In memory of the Prokhorov battle, the Prokhorov Field Museum-Reserve was created. An observation post has been reconstructed here, from which General Pavel Rotmistrov, commander of the 5th Guards Tank Army, issued orders. Commemorative sign in the bend of the river Psel was installed in honor of the feat of senior lieutenant Pavel Shpetny. All nine people who were part of his platoon, knocking out seven enemy tanks. In 2010, a museum of military glory "The Third Military Field of Russia" was opened in Prokhorovka. The main monument of the memorial is the 59-meter Belfry with a bell that beats three times an hour, recalling the historical role of three military fields: Kulikovsky, Borodinsky and Prokhorovsky. And the architectural dominant of the complex is the temple in the name of the holy supreme apostles Peter and Paul, on the walls of which the names of 7382 soldiers who died in these bloody battles are inscribed

3. Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Moscow. The memorial was opened in May 1967 after the burial of the ashes of an unknown soldier who died in the battle for Moscow near the Kremlin wall.

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The remains were moved from a mass grave at 41 km of the Leningradskoe highway. The monument consists of a tombstone covered with a bronze battle banner, on which lie a soldier's helmet and a laurel branch. And in the center is burning Eternal flame glory. It was brought from the Champ de Mars in 1967. At the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Brezhnev lit the fire, having received the torch from the hands of the legendary pilot Alexei Maresyev. Nearby is the inscription "Your name is unknown, your feat is immortal." In 1997, by decree of the President of the Russian Federation, a guard of honor was established at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. And in 2014, the All-Russian Day of the Unknown Soldier appeared, which is celebrated on December 3.

4. Krivtsov Memorial, Oryol Region ... At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the stronghold of the group of fascist troops was located in the region. In 1942, the Bolkhov operation was carried out, with the bloodiest battle in the Krivtsovo-Chagodaevo-Gorodishche area.

After the offensive, the Soviet troops were able to advance 20 km, but then they stopped. This did not allow the enemy to transfer forces to the Battle of Stalingrad. During the Bolkhov operation, more than 21 thousand soldiers and officers were killed, and more than 47 thousand were injured. The Krivtsov Memorial is located in the "Valley of Death" - it is almost official name valleys of the Oka and Zusha rivers. The memorial ensemble consists of two parts: a monument to the fallen soldiers, in the form of a 15-meter pyramid, and a mourning area with two mass graves, on which the "Eternal Flame of Glory" monument and a 9-meter obelisk are erected.

5. Murmansk "Alyosha" - a monument to the "Defenders of the Soviet Arctic during the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945." It was founded in 1969 on the Cape Zelenyi Mys, where anti-aircraft batteries were located, which defended the city from air raids.

Murmansk region is the only region where the enemy did not pass more than 30 km from state border... And the fiercest battles took place on the right bank of the Zapadnaya Litsa River, later renamed the Valley of Glory. "Alyosha's" gaze is directed exactly there. There is still no exact data on the number of people killed in the defense of the region. Murmansk "Alyosha" is the tallest monument in Russia after Mamayev Kurgan. Its height together with the pedestal is 42.5 meters. The ensemble of the memorial includes the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the Eternal Flame, a granite stele to the Defenders of the Arctic. At the foot of the monument, two capsules are walled up - one with sea water from the place of the sinking of the ship "Fog", the second - from the ground from the Valley of Glory and the area of battles at the Verman line.

6. Rear - to the front, Magnitogorsk. This is the first part of a triptych of monuments, among which "Motherland Calls" in Volgograd and "Liberator Warrior" in Berlin.

As conceived by the authors, the sword, forged by the home front workers in the Urals, raises the Motherland on the Mamayev Kurgan, and already lowers it after the victory of the soldiers in Berlin. The monument is located on a hill, its height is 15 meters. In the center of the monument there are two figures - a warrior and a worker. The worker looks in the direction of the metallurgical plant, and the soldier looks to the west, where the hostilities took place. An eternal flame is installed nearby. The monument was made in Leningrad, and then erected on a fortified hill in Magnitogorsk. Later, on the granite trapeze, the names of the residents of the city were carved, who received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union in World War II and who died - more than 14 thousand in total.

7. Monument to the Sailor and the Soldier, Sevastopol ... 40-meter monument with a difficult fate. The decision to build a memorial complex at Cape Khrustalny was made back in the 70s of the last century, but the construction began only decades later.

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Construction proceeded slowly, then it was mothballed, as the project was recognized as unsuccessful, and in the late 80s the possibility of dismantling the monument was seriously discussed. Subsequently, the supporters of the monument won, and money was allocated for the restoration, but it was not possible to complete the initially approved project. Now the monument to the Soldier and the Sailor is a must-see place for tourist groups, although there are many critics of it among the locals.

8. Poklonnaya Gora, Moscow. For the first time on the site of the hill between the Setun and Filka rivers, back in 1942, it was proposed to erect a monument to the people's feat of 1812. However, in the difficult conditions of the Great Patriotic War, the project was not implemented.

Victory Park on Poklonnaya Hill

Subsequently, a plaque was installed on Poklonnaya Hill promising that a Victory Monument would appear on this site. A park was laid out around it, which also received a similar name. The construction of the memorial began in 1984, and was completed only 11 years later: the complex was inaugurated on May 9, 1995, on the 50th anniversary of the war. The ceremony was attended by the heads of 55 states. On the territory of Victory Park there are churches of three confessions (Orthodox, mosque and synagogue), which symbolize the multinationality of the army of the liberators. The Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War has a unique collection, including 1,500 volumes of the "Book of Memory" and its electronic analogue, in which the destinies are recorded Soviet soldiers who defended their country from the Nazis. There is also an exhibition on the territory of the park. military equipment... Well, the center of the monument is the Victory Monument.

9. Piskarevskoye Memorial Cemetery, St. Petersburg ... This is the largest burial place for the victims of World War II, about 420 thousand residents of besieged Leningrad who died of hunger, cold and disease, 70 thousand soldiers who heroically fought for the northern capital are buried in 186 mass graves.

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The inauguration of the memorial took place on May 9, 1960. The dominant feature of the ensemble is the monument "Mother Motherland" with a granite stele, on which the epitaph of Olga Berggolts is engraved with the famous line "Nobody is forgotten and nothing is forgotten." The poetess wrote this poem specifically for the opening of the Piskarevsky memorial. From "Mother-Motherland" there is a 300-meter alley on which red roses are planted. It ends at the Eternal Flame. Here, at the Piskarevskoye cemetery, in the military museum, there is a diary of Tanya Savicheva.

10. Cranes, Saratov. Yuri Menyakin, the creator of the memorial complex in memory of the Saratovites who died in the war, was inspired by the song "Cranes" to the verses of Rasul Gamzatov.

Therefore, the main theme of the monument was light memory and light sadness. A wedge of 12 silvery cranes flying westward symbolizes the souls of the fallen soldiers. In the center of the monument there are three five-pointed stars covered with gold leaf, made by analogy with the highest award of the USSR - Hero Soviet Union... Five flights of stairs lead to the monument, on which cities were knocked out, in the protection and liberation of which Saratov residents took part. The area around the complex is paved with paving stones. It symbolizes the beginning of the war, when soldiers from the parade on Red Square went straight to the front.

During the Great Patriotic War, it became one of the most significant topics in Soviet art - literature, painting, cinema. The portal "Culture.RF" recalled the most important sculptural monuments dedicated to the tragedy of this time.

"The Motherland Calls!" In Volgograd

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One of the tallest statues in the world "Motherland Calls!" is part of the sculptural triptych along with the monuments "Rear to the Front" in Magnitogorsk and "Soldier-Liberator" in Treptower Park in Berlin. The author of the monument was Yevgeny Vuchetich, who created the figure of a woman with a sword raised above her head. The most difficult construction took place from 1959 to 1967. For the manufacture of the monument, 5.5 thousand tons of concrete and 2.4 thousand tons of metal structures were needed. Inside, the Motherland is completely hollow, it consists of separate chambers, in which metal cables are stretched that support the frame of the monument. The height of the grandiose monument is 85 meters, it is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the largest sculpture-statue in the world at the time of the construction of the monument.

"Let's beat swords into plowshares" in Moscow

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The statues of Yevgeny Vuchetich "We Will Beat Swords into Plowshares", depicting a worker who reforges weapons into a plow, are located in several cities around the world. The very first was installed in 1957 at the UN Headquarters in New York - it was a gift to the States from the Soviet Union as a sign of friendship. Other copyright copies of the monument can be seen near the Central House of Artists in Moscow, in the Kazakh city of Ust-Kamenogorsk and in Volgograd. This work of Evgeny Vuchetich received recognition not only in the USSR, but also abroad: for it he was awarded the silver medal of the Peace Council and received the Grand Prix at an exhibition in Brussels.

"Heroic Defenders of Leningrad" in St. Petersburg

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The project of the monument to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad was developed by sculptors and architects who participated in the defense of the city - Valentin Kamensky, Sergei Speransky and Mikhail Anikushin. Deployed to one of the bloodiest places in the history of the battle for Leningrad - the Pulkovo Heights, the composition consists of 26 bronze sculptures of the city's defenders (soldiers, workers) and a 48-meter granite obelisk in the center. There is also a memorial hall "Blockade", separated by an open ring, symbolizing the breakthrough of the fascist defense of Leningrad. The memorial was built at the expense of voluntary donations from the townspeople.

"Defenders of the Soviet Arctic during the Great Patriotic War" ("Alyosha") in Murmansk

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One of the tallest Russian monuments, the 35-meter-high Murmansk "Alyosha", was erected in Murmansk in memory of the unknown soldiers who gave their lives for the Soviet Arctic. The monument is located on a high hill - 173 meters above sea level, so the figure of a soldier in a raincoat with a machine gun over his shoulder can be seen from anywhere in the city. Next to "Alyosha" the Eternal Flame is burning and there are two anti-aircraft guns. The authors of the project are architects Igor Pokrovsky and Isaac Brodsky.

To the Panfilov Heroes in Dubosekovo

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The memorial complex in Dubosekovo, dedicated to the feat of 28 soldiers from the division of Major General Ivan Panfilov, consists of six 10-meter sculptures: a political instructor, two soldiers with grenades and three more soldiers. In front of the sculptural group there is a strip of concrete slabs - this is a symbol of the milestone, which the Germans could not overcome. Nikolay Lyubimov, Alexey Postol, Vladimir Fedorov, Vitaly Datyuk, Yuri Krivushchenko and Sergey Khadzhibaronov became the authors of the monument project.

Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow

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In 1966, a memorial dedicated to the Unknown Soldier was erected in the Alexander Garden near the Kremlin wall. The ashes of one of the soldiers buried in the mass grave and a helmet from the times of the Great Patriotic War are buried here. The inscription "Your name is unknown, your feat is immortal" is carved on the granite tombstone. Since May 8, 1967, the Eternal Flame has been continuously burning on the monument, which was lit from the fire on the Champ de Mars. Another part of the memorial is burgundy porphyry blocks with the image of a golden star, in which capsules with earth from the hero cities (Leningrad, Volgograd, Tula and others) are immured.

Monument to the soldiers of the Ural Volunteer Tank Corps in Yekaterinburg

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They keep the memory of the little people of the war. And even about the little creatures of God - camels, donkeys and doves, who helped to fight. These are monuments to courage and a shattered world. And hope, of course.

"We'll all come back to you"

Praskovya Eremeevna Volodichkina's nine sons went to the front with one call. Six died in the war, three died of their wounds, barely returning home. And then Praskovya Eremeevna herself left - she could not stand the grief that she suffered. And with her youngest son, Nikolai, she did not even say goodbye. He was finishing active service in Transbaikalia, they were already waiting for him home, but their part was immediately taken to the front. When he passed the Volga, he threw out a rolled-up note from the teplushka window: “Mom, dear mother. Do not grieve, do not grieve. Do not worry. We're going to the front. We will defeat the fascists and we will all return to you. Wait. Your Kolka. "

Is Saving Private Ryan about a similar impossible story? Such cruel coincidences, in which people try not to believe ("The bomb does not fall into one funnel the second time!") Reveal the cruelty of time and fate. This is too much. But in Russia there were several such families, we just do not know about all of them. Here, in Alekseevka, a suburb of Samara, circumstances arose in a certain way. In the 1980s, a school teacher Nina Kosareva, who works at the same school where the Volodichkin brothers once studied, created an amateur memorial museum in one of the rooms of their former house. And the initiative for the construction of the monument belongs to working group Regional Book of Memory.

And now on the street of the former Krasnoarmeyskaya, and now the Volodichkin Brothers, a monument appeared - Praskovya Eremeevna, Alexander, Andrey, Peter, Ivan, Vasily, Mikhail, Konstantin, Fedor and Nikolai.

Monument to the weeping horse

It is called “the monument to the weeping horse”. The orphaned exhausted bronze horse bowed its head - mourning its rider, owner, friend. Fortunately, these days we rarely see weeping horses. There were many of them during the Great Patriotic War. Unfortunately, the cavalrymen were practically doomed to certain death. IN civil war, which ended (relative to the beginning of the Great Patriotic War) relatively recently - just some twenty years ago, it was the cavalry that formed the basis of the army. But between the 20s and 40s of the last century, progress, including military, developed at a rapid pace - much faster than army administration. And as a result, many horsemen went to the front, who were helpless in front of enemy tanks and aircraft. Ossetians have always been excellent riders. Not surprisingly, it was among them that there were many dead cavalry soldiers.

Postman

The triangles of the front letters. One of the symbols of the Great Patriotic War. They were read by the whole family, and in the villages - and sometimes by the whole street, they were kept in caskets, rivers of tears were shed over them - tears of faith, hope, love. The symbol is more rear than frontal. Nevertheless, Lance corporal Ivan Leontyev, the postman of the 33rd Infantry Regiment of the 6th Red Banner Infantry Division, immortalized on this monument, died in 1944 just at the front. He was delivering mail to the front line and came under enemy artillery fire. Last letter, which was sent home by Ivan Leontiev himself, dated January 1944. Postman Leontyev was not a special hero - and he was, of course. But he became a symbol of the profession because his military fate was typical. He was awarded a medal - like many of his fellow army postmen; many times under fire he brought letters from relatives to soldiers in the trenches; they were waiting for him, along with his bag full of letters - and the weight of the front postman's bag on average was equal to weight machine gun. So said at the opening ceremony employees, veterans, heads of branches of the Russian Post - everyone who participated in the thinking and discussion of the monument. The monument was created with the participation of the Russian Post.

Bear and Masha

The hardships of wartime are when the steppe Astrakhan camels are used as a draft force. But there was such a thing. In particular, the camels Mishka and Mashka took part in the legendary Battle of Stalingrad and reached from the Lower Volga region to Berlin. Now they are cast in bronze, in their usual surroundings - next to a combat weapon and a soldier with a submachine gun in his lap, who sat down to rest. And one of the camels, without hesitation, followed his example. Tired.

Bronze Fashion Magazine Page

A wide bronze stele, and on it - as if on an ordinary clothes hanger, on hooks, hanging women's clothing... Only 17 sets, like on a bronze page from a fashion magazine. There is only one difference, and it is very significant - these are not fashionable toilets, but the uniforms of women who participated in the Second World War. This is a work overalls, driver's overalls, protective clothing for a welder, medical uniform... Helmets, service jackets, breeches. This monument is called very simply - Women in the Second World War.

The war has changed the lives of seven million British housewives. They replaced men - and became firefighters, fighters air defense, workers of the "women's land army" and defense factories, drivers and mechanics. And the inscription on the monument used the font from the food cards of the war era.

Major retired David McNally Robertson proposed to create this monument in 1997. The idea was supported by the Speaker of the House of Commons, Baroness Betty Boothroyd, who became the patroness of the project and raised money for it on the TV show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" About 1 million pounds was given by Queen Elizabeth II, who herself worked as a driver during the war. The rest of the funds were provided by various charitable foundations.

Embankment of Bronze Shoes

Flowers are placed not only in crystal vases, but also in bronze shoes, tightly screwed to the Danube embankment. A total of 60 pairs - for men, children and women, new, elegant, trampled, old-fashioned. In 1944 - 1945, there were also many pairs of shoes, not bronze, but real ones - both worn out and made according to the latest fashion of the forties. Made to serve their owners for a long time, to make them beautiful and elegant, so that they can walk comfortably. But the fate of this shoe - and of the whole world - was different. Before the execution, the people driven to the bank of the Danube were forced to take off their shoes so that the shoes would not disappear. She did not disappear - people disappeared.

All donkeys go to heaven

Fought and died - not only people. This monument is dedicated to animals, participants of the Second World War. Not surprisingly, it appeared in England - the country where the Mary Deakin Medal, the highest military award for animals, exists. It depicts carrier pigeons, a dog, camels, horses, a mule, an elephant, a wolf, a cow and a cat. And the medal - first awarded in 1942 - was awarded to 60 animals: just dogs, pigeons, donkeys, and an elephant, and one cat.

The cat, awarded the highest award, was called Simon (circa 1947 - November 28, 1948). He was a ship's cat from the Royal Navy's Amethyst warship. Awarded for "raising the morale" of sailors during the incident on the Yangzi River and for keeping ship supplies from rats. During the fighting, the cat was wounded.

The inscription "They had no choice" is laconic and more than eloquent. The monument was erected with private donations.

Turkin - who is he?

The most famous fictional front-line soldier is Vasily Terkin, invented and sung by Alexander Tvardovsky. Both of them - the author and his hero - are sitting in a bivouac in the center of Smolensk - Tvardovsky's homeland - and joking about something merrily. Thus, Vasily Terkin, as it were, incarnated, from invented it became real - a symbol of apt words, consolation, fortitude, humility and good spirits - everything that is so necessary in a war.

Pigeons

Vitya Cherevichkin lived in Rostov,

At school, he did well.

And in a free hour it is always usual

He released his favorite pigeons.

This song was sung by the whole post-war country. During the occupation of Rostov-on-Don, the Germans strictly forbade civilians to breed pigeons, equating them to radio transmitters - they were afraid of using pigeon mail. The feat of the teenager Viti Cherevichkin was that he, being an avid pigeon, drew the layout German units in the city, and with pigeons he transported them to his brother in Bataysk. For this he was shot. According to another version, he simply defended his own dovecote from the invaders. And this does not detract from his merits - you need to have great courage to defend your dovecote from the enemy.

The most faithful friend

And yet the same true friend man is a dog. Everywhere - in warmth, and in trouble, and in sorrow, and in joy. Including at the front. There is nothing to add here.

Doll and teapot

The three children are warm and very uncomfortably dressed. The girl is holding an old, ugly, beloved doll. The boy is holding a big kettle. He is the eldest in this group, he needs to take care of the rest. These are the children of the besieged Leningrad. And the monument itself stands in Omsk. Why? This is reported by the signature on the pedestal: "More than 17 thousand children were evacuated from the besieged Leningrad to the Omsk region." They brought them just like that - exhausted, pulled out of their family (if the family was still whole, alive), saved. They were taken out along the legendary Road of Life and at the risk of this very life that had just begun.

Lidice

And again - children, children, children. In total - eighty-two children; their figures are life-size cast in bronze. That is how many children - 40 boys and 42 girls - were killed by the Nazis in 1942 in the Czech mining village of Lidice. The village itself was completely destroyed. This is a very laconic, very simple, strong monument.

13:11 - REGNUM 75 years ago, on June 22, 1941, the Great Patriotic War began. The victory in it became the greatest test and the greatest pride for Russia. The memory of the fallen soldiers, home front workers and civilians is immortalized in numerous memorials on the territory of the country. You can visit each of these memorials, lay flowers and remember those who fell in the Great Patriotic War.

1. Monument-ensemble "Heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad", Mamaev Kurgan, Volgograd. The most famous memorial dedicated to the Great Patriotic War is majestic and symbolic. It took 8.5 years to build: from 1959 to 1967. Chief architect - Evgeny Vuchetich.

2. Museum-reserve "Prokhorovskoe field", Belgorod region, settlement Prokhorovka. On July 12, 1943, the vicinity of the Prokhorovka railway station became the site of the largest tank battle in history.

Galina Vanina

More than 1,500 tanks of the Red Army and the fascist invaders fought in the battle. This battle changed the course of the Battle of Kursk and the war as a whole.

3. Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Moscow. The memorial was opened in May 1967 after the burial of the ashes of an unknown soldier who died in the battle for Moscow near the Kremlin wall.

The remains were moved from a mass grave at 41 km of the Leningradskoe highway. The eternal flame of glory was brought from the Champ de Mars in 1967. At the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Brezhnev lit the fire, having received the torch from the hands of the legendary pilot Alexei Maresyev.

Oryol Region. At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the stronghold of the group of fascist troops was located in the region. In 1942, the Bolkhov operation was carried out, with the bloodiest battle in the Krivtsovo-Chagodaevo-Gorodishche area.

5. Murmansk "Alyosha"- a monument to the Defenders of the Soviet Arctic during the Great Patriotic War of 1941−1945 It was founded in 1969 on the Cape Zelenyi Mys, where anti-aircraft batteries were located, which defended the city from air raids.

Tara-Aming

Murmansk Oblast is the only region where the enemy did not pass more than 30 km from the state border. And the fiercest battles took place on the right bank of the Zapadnaya Litsa River, later renamed the Valley of Glory. Alyosha's gaze is directed exactly there.

6. Rear - to the front, Magnitogorsk. This is the first part of a triptych of monuments, among which "Motherland Calls" in Volgograd and "Warrior-Liberator" in Berlin.

7. Monument to the Sailor and the Soldier, Sevastopol. 40-meter monument with a difficult fate. The decision to build a memorial complex at Cape Khrustalny was made back in the 70s of the last century, but the construction began only decades later.

Sergey Sekachev

Construction proceeded slowly, then it was mothballed, as the project was recognized as unsuccessful, and in the late 80s the possibility of dismantling the monument was seriously discussed. Subsequently, the supporters of the monument won, and money was allocated for the restoration, but it was not possible to complete the initially approved project. Now the monument to the Soldier and the Sailor is a must-see for tourist groups, although there are many critics among the locals.

Moscow city. For the first time on the site of the hill between the Setun and Filka rivers, back in 1942, it was proposed to erect a monument to the people's feat of 1812. However, in the difficult conditions of the Great Patriotic War, the project was not implemented.

Aleksander Kaasik

Victory Park on Poklonnaya Hill

9. Piskarevskoye memorial cemetery, St. Petersburg. This is the largest burial place for the victims of the Second World War; about 420 thousand inhabitants of besieged Leningrad who died of hunger, cold and disease, 70 thousand soldiers who heroically fought for the northern capital are buried in 186 mass graves.

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The inauguration of the memorial took place on May 9, 1960. The dominant feature of the ensemble is the monument “Motherland” with a granite stele, on which the epitaph of Olga Berggolts is engraved with the famous line “Nobody is forgotten and nothing is forgotten”. The poetess wrote this poem specifically for the opening of the Piskarevsky memorial.

G. Saratov. Yuri Menyakin, the creator of the memorial complex in memory of the Saratovites who died in the war, was inspired by the song "Cranes" to the verses of Rasul Gamzatov.

Therefore, the main theme of the monument was light memory and light sadness. A wedge of 12 silvery cranes flying westward symbolizes the souls of the fallen soldiers.

An overview of the outstanding memorials dedicated to the Great Patriotic War is provided by Federal Agency on tourism.