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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 ...
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 ...
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 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).
On 10 March 1943, a resolution was passed to commemorate the Shakhty patriots. The first monument took the form of a wooden pyramid with a star at the site of the Krasin mine shaft. It was replaced in 1959 by an obelisk designed by S. F. Komarov, and in 1975 the present memorial was erected to mark the 30th anniversary of the end of the war.
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.
On 15 September 2023, the Soviet stars were removed from the obelisk, together with the annotation board in the Russian language, [2] and the "1941" marking was changed to "1939" to match the official Ukrainian date for the start of World War II. [2] [3] On 4 November 2023 the communist star on top of the monument was also removed. [4]
The Alexander Garden Obelisk is an obelisk located within the Alexander Garden, near the walls of Kremlin, in Moscow, Russia.The obelisk was initially designed by S. A. Vlasev and erected on July 10, 1914, at the entrance of the garden.