Monument to 1200 soldiers-guards description and photo - Russia - Baltic: Kaliningrad (Topic)

Monument to 1200 soldiers-guards description and photo - Russia - Baltics: Kaliningrad. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photos and a map showing the nearest significant objects.

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A monument to 1200 guards is erected on Kaliningrad's Guards Avenue, where military parades are held. The monument is the mass grave of the 11th Guards Army, whose soldiers died during the assault on Koenigsberg. The monument to the guards is the work of the Moscow architects S.S. Nanushyan and I.D. Melchakov, six Lithuanian sculptors, which included B. Petrauskas, P. Vaivada and R. Yakimavicius, and the project manager Juozas Mikenas.

The Monument to 1200 Guards, opened on September 30, 1945, was the first Soviet monument in the not yet renamed Konigsberg. The decision to perpetuate the feat of Soviet soldiers was made immediately after the Victory (May 1945) by the Military Council of the 11th Army, and the order to reburial the soldiers in a mass grave was signed by Colonel General K.N. Galitsky. A year later, next to the monument, sculptural compositions `` Victory '' were installed (sculptor Juozas Mikenas) and Sturm. On the anniversary of the Victory Day, in 1960, an eternal flame was lit in front of the monument. In 1995, in the immediate vicinity of the monument, an Orthodox chapel (Ausfal Gates) was built in memory of the soldiers who died during the assault.

The monument to 1200 guards is located in the dammed part of Victory Park on an oval-shaped square. The dominant feature of the monument is a 26-meter obelisk in the shape of a five-pointed star with seven stone belts. On the edges of the obelisk there are reliefs depicting medals, orders, weapons and compositions of battle scenes. Along the walls of the square are four marble tombstones with a list of the names of the dead soldiers. There are also pedestals and two obelisks of the heroes of the Soviet Union. The wall of rusticated granite blocks is decorated with sixteen bas-reliefs and marble slabs with the names of the fallen.

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