each of them is the story
Sculptors — V. Zhukov, V. Marinin and P. Solodkov, 2010, Akhtubinsk, Astrakhan region.
the Monument represents a soldier with a gun on his lap, next to which two of the camel. Animals Bear and Masha famously participated in the legendary battle of Stalingrad and came from the Lower Volga to Berlin.
Sculptor — A. Tatarinov, 2012, the village of diamonds, sivinskiy rayon, Permskiy Kray.
In the village center of diamonds in the Perm edge there is a monument with the figure of an elderly woman in a headscarf, and behind her is a stele with the plane. You might think that this is a collective image of a Soviet mother, but it’s not. The monument depicts a peasant woman Matryona Ivanovna Yakovlev, which for the locals has become a legend. When her husband and sons went to the front, the woman did not sit idly by, and began to raise money for the needs of the army. She looked after the farm and sold everything she had, she rescued 100 thousand rubles. The entire amount of the woman transferred to the defense Fund for the purchase of combat aircraft.
Sculptor — V. I. Perfilov, 1973, the village Matveev Kurgan, Matveevo-Kurgan district of Rostov region.
Sculpture female regulirovschitsa, which locals affectionately called “Marusya”, stands at the entrance to the village Matveev Kurgan, at the fork in the road Rostov-on-don — Russian Donetsk and Matveev Kurgan. This monument is dedicated to the female traffic controller, without which they could not do any one army. According to legend, on this very spot during the war was the unknown girl who for two days continuously sent Soviet tanks, while fainted from exhaustion and overwork.
Sculptor — R. P. Haritonov, 1975, Volgograd.
In the Krasnooktyabrsky district of Volgograd, directly opposite the factory “Red October”, it is an unusual monument in flames the man with outstretched arms. This sculpture is dedicated to the 24-year-old sailor, defending Stalingrad, Mikhail Panikahi. 2 November 1942 in the area of the plant “Red October” he was in the trenches, surrounded by German tanks. The panikaha tried crawling closer to the tanks with Molotov cocktails, but the German bullet hit one of the bottles, and the soldiers immediately broke out. Engulfed in flames, he rushed at a German tank. Buried a soldier there, in the place of his death.
Sculptor — N. Avetikov, 1961, Rostov-on-don.
Boy, clutching to her breast a dove is a teenager Victor Cherevichkin from Rostov-on-don. During the occupation the Germans forbade civilians to breed pigeons due fear of “pigeon mail”. Victor was an avid pigeon. According to one version, he actually used the bird to convey to Soviet soldiers information about the location of German units in the city. For this he was shot. However, according to another version, the boy just defended from invaders own dovecote and their Pets.
Sculptor — S. Scala, architect O. Medvedev, 2005, the town of Myshkin, Yaroslavl oblast.
Memorial complex was opened on the 60th anniversary of the Victory, and its construction took only 3 months. In the center of the memorial is a bronze figure of a soldier in front of which burns an Eternal flame. Behind him is represented the bas-reliefs of Heroes of the Soviet Union and a list of locals killed during the war. Before the soldier located the Book of Remembrance in which are inscribed the names of those who fought Myskina.
eagles died in the battle of Stalingrad on 26 October 1942. His wife refused to believe his death and even after funerals continued to write him letters, which are also displayed on the memorial wall.
Architect A. Veselovsky, 1981, 114 kilometre of Volokolamsk highway, Moscow region.
Perhaps, Soviet military equipment is often perpetuated as monuments of the great Patriotic war in the former Soviet Union. However, the monument called “Explosion”, located on the Volokolamsk highway in the suburbs, is unique. The fact that the center of the composition here is a real German vehicle — self propelled artillery setting the StuG III they pulled out of the swamp near the village Podmarkova. On the idea of the architect, the German car “explodes” at the entrance to the trenches the engineers. The monument was erected in honor of the feat 11 characters-sappers 8th guards rifle division of General I. V. Panfilov.
Architect — G. Najarian, 1979, the village of Myskhako, Novorossiysk.
Another monument called “Explosion” is located in the village Myskhako, Novorossiysk. However, in contrast to the suburban “enemy tank”, the monument consists of these fragments of shells, bombs and mines that were collected after the war in this ��Iona. The weight of the monument is 1250 pounds — it is considered that brought down so many German troops for every soldier, heroically defending Novorossiysk. The monument “Explosion” is part of the memorial complex “Valley of death”.
Architect Leonid Levin. Finnish sculptors A., E. Shelves, 1942, 2000, Minsk, Belarus.
“Yama” memorial is located at Melnikaite street Minsk dedicated to the victims of the Holocaust. In this place March 2, 1942, the Nazis had shot about 5 thousands of prisoners of the Minsk ghetto. In 1947 there appeared the obelisk. It was the first monument to the victims of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union, which had an inscription in Yiddish, but in a few years the authors of the monument were arrested and deported to the camps because the obelisk was written about “peaceful Soviet citizens” but Jews. However, the monument itself has remained intact.
it systems go down emaciated Jewish prisoners. By the way, all works on construction and reconstruction of the memorial was done by hand without the use of any of technology.
One of the most unusual, but by no means the only such monument to the great Patriotic war is the ruined Palace of culture of cement industry in Novorossiysk. The opening of a new beautiful building was scheduled for Sunday, June 22, 1941. But it never happened. The Palace has long been on the front line and was almost completely destroyed. After the war it was decided not to restore the Palace, and to make him a memorial. Incidentally, a similar fate and the building of the regional clinical hospital in Voronezh. Now it is also a monument to world war II.
Sculptor — D. Tsoraev, 1971, Kurtatinsky gorge, Republic of North Ossetia — Alania.
This is quite unusual and touching memorial depicts the tortured bronze horse mourning his dead rider and friend. A monument dedicated to the immigrants from Kurchatovskogo gorges who died for the Motherland during the great Patriotic war, and the “horse” symbolizes the grief of the whole of Ossetia for the victims of the war of the sons, most of whom were cavalrymen and was helpless against enemy tanks and aircraft.
the Only miraculous monument of the great Patriotic war in our collection, but not the only one on the territory of the former USSR. This 100-year old tree two feet in circumference has a very tragic story. When the guys from the local de��house went to the front, they said goodbye to oak alley, but after a time they began to bring and funerals. Simply because bringing them was nowhere else. With the years there is only one tree. He was awarded the status of a monument, fenced and installed a memorial plaque. Now the veterans and local residents carry the tree flowers.
Sculptors — K. Novikov, I. Kulakov, 2013, Vladivostok.
Bronze statue of the heroine of the famous war song “Katyusha” stands in the square Margaretka in Vladivostok. According to one version, the prototype of the heroine of the song was a native of Vladivostok Ekaterina Alekseeva, who along with her husband the officer-frontier guard participated in the battles at lake Khasan and for courage was awarded the order of the red Star.
Sculptor — A. Korobtsov, 2014, Moscow, Poklonnaya hill.
during the great Patriotic war on the front served more than 60 thousand dogs, who not only pulled under shelling wounded, delivered ammunition and reports, detect and defuse mines, but were loyal friends of the soldiers. Dogs on a par with the military participated in the Victory Parade on red square in the summer of 1945. It is not surprising that the merits of the four-legged friends have also been immortalized in monuments all over the former USSR, the most famous of which is the Moscow monument, which is often called simply “Friend.”
Sculptor-animalist Vladimir Petrovichev, the architect L. V. Domracheva, 2000
In 1943, after the blockade of Leningrad, the city had an infestation of rats, from which residents and food have saved thousands of cats, specially brought to the city of Yaroslavl and Siberia. In memory of the animals in St. Petersburg installed a few sculptures. The most well known are the sculptures of cat cats Elisha, and Vasilisa, located in the heart of the city, on Malaya Sadovaya street. They were installed in 2000. And in 2018 were joined by the nameless black cat, sitting on a chair in the yard of the house number 4 on the street Composers.
