Author: Xiong Lei Posted on: October 16, 2017
The joint tomb of soldiers of the Soviet 64th Army who died in the defense of Stalingrad in the Stepnoi district in 1959 is not listed as an important memorial site in Volgograd in Baidu and Wikipedia. But it's well worth a visit.
Across the road called the "Avenue of Peace" and the Soviet Cemetery is the tomb of German soldiers, including the Romanian soldiers' tomb on the German side at that time.
We met Romanians who came to perform a burial ceremony for the Romanian soldier's tomb. Because after the war, there were constantly excavated skeletons, and after screening and identification, they were buried in the cemeteries to which they belonged.
When the 64th Army Cemetery was first built, 808 skeletons of famous and unknown martyrs were buried. More than 20,000 bones of Soviet martyrs have now been buried.
A tombstone designed by a female artist for the image of a mother mourning her jaw.
All the Soviet martyrs whose names can be traced are placed on the tombstones of a steel helmet excavated from the battlefield, and a red carnation is pressed on the side, and the name of the martyr and the date of birth and death are engraved on the stele. So many young people whose lives are fixed on 18-year-olds, 19-year-olds, and 20-year-olds, through this silent tombstone, what kind of dialogue is being carried out with us?
In 1985, the 40th anniversary of the victory of the anti-fascist war was completed and opened the Stalingrad Defense War Panorama Memorial Hall.
The largest panoramic painting in Russia depicts the battle scene on January 26, 1943, centered on the Mamayev Heights. On that very day, the Soviets surrounded the Germans and divided them into two parts.
In the panoramic painting, there is a scene of a Soviet pilot driving a wounded fighter plane and dying with the enemy.
There are all kinds of fierce battle scenes.
Outside the memorial, there are Soviet tanks (second from left) that participated in the Battle of Berlin.
There were Su T34 tanks that sank at the bottom of the Volga River for 61 years and were salvaged in 2011.
In the ruins of the flour mill building where fierce fighting took place in that year. It was on the Volga River, almost the last line of defense for the Soviets to prevent the Germans from crossing the river to the east. In fact, this building was built by a German businessman in 1900. Here is a small reproduction of the "Children's Ring Dance" sculpture.
Opposite the Flour Mill Building is the famous Pavlov Building. There are many buildings in Stalingrad that have been fiercely fought, but this four-story residential building is particularly famous.
Soviet soldiers, Yakov Fedotovich Pavlov (1917-1981), a Soviet soldier and later a Hero of the Soviet Union, led more than 20 fighters from Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhs, Tatars, and Jews to resist the German siege here for nearly 60 days. Marshal Trikov, who commanded the defense of Stalingrad, once joked that the German soldiers who besieged Pavlov House suffered more casualties than they had taken paris.
After the war, because the government had no funds, a local kindergarten teacher initiated the restoration of the building through voluntary labor by residents, mainly women.
The inscription on the monument on the gables of the restored building reads: "This building is a fusion of the heroic deeds of war and labor." We will defend you and rebuild you, dear Stalingrad! ”
A group of monuments that epitomize the heroic spirit of the Stalingrad defense war, in the Mamayev Heights.
The Mamayev Heights, the commanding heights of the city, were a major battlefield in the defense of Stalingrad. The grass is green now, but Vasily says it was all red when it snowed, with an average of thousands of bullet casings per square meter, and there was no grass in the three years after the war.
The famous "Mother motherland is calling" statue is on top of the highlands. The statue was designed by yevgeny Vuchetich (1908-1974), a prominent Ukrainian Soviet sculptor, and constructed by the Nikolai Nikitin (1907-1973), an expert in structural engineering. The statue is 85 meters high and weighs 8,000 tons, including 5,500 tons of concrete and 2,400 tons of metal structure. The sword held high in the statue's hand alone weighs 16 tons. When it was completed in 1967, it was the tallest statue in the world at the time, and it is still the tallest statue in Europe and the tallest female statue in the world.
From the foot of the mountain to the statue, there are 200 steps, symbolizing the 200 days and nights in which Soviet soldiers and civilians fought bloodily to defend Stalingrad.
The hero statue modeled after Marshal Trikov is in the middle of the pool, expressing the determination and courage to fight a battle against the water and not to retreat.
The statue's resolute face is impressive.
Up the steps, flanked by reliefs representing the defense of Stalingrad, with many heroic images and wartime slogans. Approaching the reliefs, you will hear the music of the time, as well as the sound of gunfire.
In the woods next to it, tourists pose with "Stalin" played by an unknown person.
On one side of Heroes' Square are groups of statues showing the military and civilian heroism of Stalingrad at that time, which is very realistic.
The cemetery of Marshal Trikov, the famous commander of the Stalingrad Defense War. He was the first Marshal of the Soviet Union not to be buried in Moscow.
Memorial Hall.
On the wall inside, the names of more than 7,000 Soviet fallen soldiers are engraved. In the middle of the hall, a giant hand carried the Changming torch.
Guarding here are real army soldiers. Before the change of guard, the officers were grooming the soldiers.
Catching up with the changing of the guards is very solemn and solemn.
Among the Soviet heroes who fought in the defense of Stalingrad here was the famous sniper and Soviet hero Vasily Grigoryevich Zaytsev (1915-1991). During the battle for Stalingrad, he killed a total of 225 enemy officers and men, including 11 snipers, one of whom was also a coach at the German Sniper School. After the war, Zaitsev was demobilized and settled in Kiev, where he studied at a textile technical university, where he became an engineer in the textile industry after graduation and later the director of a textile factory in Kiev.
It was only after his death 15 years after his death that he was able to be buried from Kiev to the Mamayev Heights in 2006, fulfilling his last wish to rest in Stalingrad.
In all these places, people can feel a deep, thick and lasting heroic complex.
This is a model of the city before the Battle of Stalingrad began. There seems to be suspense about the name of the city. In 2010, some monarchists and Orthodox leaders demanded that the city be restored to its original name, Tsaritsin, which was rejected by the authorities, according to the English Wikipedia. Since then, in January 2013, 50,000 people have signed a petition submitted to President Putin requesting that the name of the city be permanently changed to Stalingrad. Putin replied that this should first be voted on by the local government. At the same time, on January 30, 2013, the City of Volgograd Duma decided to refer to the city as the "Hero City of Stalingrad" on 9 specific anniversaries every year. The nine specific anniversaries are: the end of the Stalingrad Defense on 2 February, the Day of the Defenders of the Fatherland on 23 February, victory day on 9 May, the Day of Remembrance and Mourning of the Great Patriotic War of Russia on 22 June, the day of the start of the Defense of Stalingrad on 23 August, the day of victory in the War against Japan on 2 September, the day of the start of the Battle of Uranus (Great Counteroffensive) in the Defence of Stalingrad on 19 November, and the Day of heroes of the Fatherland on 9 December.
In 2015, the Russian government awarded the title of Heroic City to cities in the Soviet era with the sword printed on the famous military commanders in Russian history, the first of whom was Stalin.
The sword is displayed in the Stalingrad Defense Panorama Memorial.
After searching the footsteps of the heroes, we left the city by boat.
When passing through the Mamayev Heights, songs from the Soviet Union's Great Patriotic War such as "Holy War" are played on the ship, and all the tourists on the ship throw a flower into the Volga River to pay tribute to the heroes and the city.
The city on the Volga River, no matter what its name is, will always retain the soul of those heroes.
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【Author:Xiong Lei Posted on: October 16, 2017】