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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 memorial depicts cranes in flight, a reference to a popular Russian-language song by Rasul Gamzatov. A refrain from the song is shown in both English and Russian. A granite slab bares the inscription "dedicated in honor of and in tribute to the World War II veterans from the former Soviet Union" in English.
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 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).
Katyn war cemetery; Khimki War Memorial; Leningrad Hero City Obelisk; Liberty Statue (Budapest) Mamayev Kurgan; Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics; Memorial to Polish Soldiers and German Anti-Fascists; Memorial to the Victims of the Deportation of 1944; Monument to the Conquerors of Space
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 Alexander Garden Obelisk that was altered in 1918. The contestation and removal of monuments in the USSR goes back to its foundation. On April 12, 1918, Vladimir Lenin, revolutionary leader of the Bolsheviks, released a decree "on the monuments of the Republic" in which he proclaimed that all monuments to the tsars and their affiliates should be removed from public view.