Monument Ensemble Line of Defense

An imposing Soviet monument to those who died here in the Great Patriotic War, as the Russians call WWII.

Gory fighting here was the result of a disastrous Soviet counter-offensive up north, near Kharkov, in May 1942. It flopped, Germans immediately took the initiative, tore the Russian front line into pi...

Soviets knew how to make monuments!

This is also a grandios monument. Unfortunately it is on the other side of the bay and on a busy road. If you want to reach by foot, then cut across the docks. It is a looong way and the docks are ...

Shesharis!!

Original Text

Here you are funny,and I live two minutes walk of this monument and see it every day.He is on Shesharis,who doesn't know

Powerful and formidable monument

Original Text

The dark monument to the events of the BOV is grey and grim, as is the war itself. It is pleased to have information, in Soviet terms, strongly and emotionally. The imaged hands compressing weapons, as if they symbolize the standing ...

Eternal memory fell! But realities are not necessary to distort.

Original Text

Finally the reconstruction of the nearby highway has ended, so the memorial can now be washed from the construction dust and how to renew. I think, by the 75th anniversary of the Victory will do so. But it is not necessary for the ...