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The obelisk was restored and altered in April 1975 in preparation of the 30th anniversary of World War II. [citation needed] On November 3, 1978 the eternal flame was lit at the monument, delivered by an armored personnel carrier from the flame at the Obelisk of Glory in Samara. After this, the Toylatti monument gradually also came to be ...
During World War II, Savur-Mohyla was the focal point of intense fighting, when Soviet troops managed to retake control of the height from German forces in August 1943.In 1963, a memorial complex was unveiled at the top of the hill to honour fallen soldiers, [2] comprising an obelisk with a steel-and-concrete statue of a Soviet soldier, four steel-and-concrete sculptures built along the slope ...
The obelisk commemorates the victories of Count Pyotr Rumyantsev during the Russo-Turkish War between 1768 and 1774, and his service in the Russo-Turkish War of 1787–1792. The idea for a monument originated late in the reign of Empress Catherine the Great, and was realised by her son and successor, Emperor Paul I, in 1799. Paul had attempted ...
The Monument to the Liberators of Soviet Latvia and Riga from the German Fascist Invaders, [a] unofficially known simply as the Victory Monument, [b] [c] was a memorial complex in Victory Park, Pārdaugava, Riga, Latvia, erected in 1985 to commemorate the Red Army soldiers that recaptured Riga and the rest of Latvia at the end of World War II (1944–1945).
The building was designed by architect Anatoly Polyansky. [2] Work on the museum began on March 3, 1986, and the museum was opened to the public on May 9, 1995. [3] The museum features exhibits and memorials concerning the Eastern Front of World War II, known in Russia as the "Great Patriotic War".
Memorials of the Great Patriotic War in Aksay region; Anchor Monument (Matveev Kurgan) Motherland Monument (Matveev Kurgan) Monument of Glory, Samara; Monument to the heroes of Perekop; Monument to the sailors of the Azov Flotilla; The Motherland Calls
The Hero City monument (officially, the Obelisk in honor of the hero city of Kyiv, Ukrainian: Обеліск на честь міста-героя Києва) is a World War II memorial in Halytska Square in Kyiv, Ukraine. It is a 30 m-tall (98 ft) obelisk that was erected in 1982, during the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.
In 1987, the hill was levelled to the ground, and in the 1990s an obelisk was added with a statue of Nike, and a monument of Saint George slaying the dragon, both of which were designed by Zurab Tsereteli. The obelisk's height is exactly 141.8 metres (465 ft), which is 10 centimetres (3.9 in) for every day of the war.