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- Schönholzer Heide Soviet Cemetery, Berlin, Germany
- Place de la Bataille de Stalingrad, Paris, France
- Perekop, Crimea, Ukraine
- T-34 Restoration Documentary
- “Glory” Memorial, Tiraspol, Transdniester
- “Sapun Ridge” Diorama Museum, Sevastopol, Ukraine
- Stalingrad Guidebook
- Franz Grinkevich Memorial, Donetsk, Ukraine
- Reenactors, St. Petersburg, Russia
- Liberation Monument, Chisinau, Moldova
- Malaya Zemlya Memorial Complex, Novorossiysk, Russia
- Museum of the Black Sea Fleet, Sevastopol, Ukraine
- Treptower Park Memorial Complex, Berlin, Germany
- “Stalingrad” Film Trailer
- Baltic Fleet Memorial, Kaliningrad, Russia
- Victory Square, Minsk, Belarus
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Schönholzer Heide Soviet Cemetery, Berlin, Germany
The least accessible and least known of the three major Soviet memorials in Berlin can be found in the Pankow district, in the north of the city. The cemetery was designed by a team including the architects Konstantin A. Solovyev, … Continue reading
Place de la Bataille de Stalingrad, Paris, France
Place de la Bataille de Stalingrad is a small and fairly nondescript junction in the 19th Arondissement in the northeastern part of Paris. Part of Boulevard de la Villette was renamed Place de Stalingrad in 1945, and the name was … Continue reading
Posted in France, Paris
Tagged Париж, Сталинград, Франция, France, Paris, Stalingrad
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Perekop, Crimea, Ukraine
Crimea has hit the headlines in the last few weeks, so I thought I’d post a few pictures that I took on on the Perekop Isthmus, the narrow neck of land that joins the Crimean Peninsula to the mainland of … Continue reading
T-34 Restoration Documentary
Wargaming.net, the Belarussian company behind the hugely popular online game World of Tanks, has produced a nice video about the restoration of a T-34/76 by a team at the Stalin Line museum complex outside Minsk:
Posted in Belarus, Minsk
Tagged Линия Сталина, Минск, Minsk, Stalin Line, T-34, Tank
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“Glory” Memorial, Tiraspol, Transdniester
Tiraspol’s main war memorial commemorates the dead of the Great Patriotic War, the Afghanistan War and the Transdniestran War of 1990-2. Not unusually, the centrepiece of the memorial is a T-34/85. There are also a number of individual and mass … Continue reading
Posted in Tiraspol, Transdniester
Tagged Памятник "Славы", Приднестровье, Тирасполь, Tiraspol, Transdniester, Transnistria
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“Sapun Ridge” Diorama Museum, Sevastopol, Ukraine
Sapun Ridge (Сапун-Гора) is a 240-m-tall ridge that provides a strong defensive position to the southeast of Sevastopol city centre. During the assault on Sevastopol in May 1944, it was defended by the German 5th Korps, but the 51st Army … Continue reading
Stalingrad Guidebook
My good friend Svetlana has written a great English-language guidebook that covers the Stalingrad battlefield and many other sites and activities in Volgograd and the surrounding region. The book has full coverage of all the main memorials and locations that … Continue reading
Franz Grinkevich Memorial, Donetsk, Ukraine
This memorial in the centre of Donetsk commemorates Colonel Franz A. Grinkevich, who commanded the 32nd Guards Tank Brigade, one of the units that liberated the city, which was then known as Stalino. Grinkevich was killed on October 11, 1943, … Continue reading
Posted in Donetsk, Ukraine
Tagged Donetsk, Донецк, Донецьк, Украина, Україна, Франц Гринкевич, Ukraine
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Reenactors, St. Petersburg, Russia
I happened to be passing through St. Petersburg on September 8, 2011, the 70th anniversary of the fall of Schlisselburg, which severed the last overland connection into Leningrad and began the 872-day siege. I spotted these reenactors on Nevskiy Prospekt. … Continue reading
Posted in Russia, St. Petersburg
Tagged Блокада Ленинграда, Город-герой, Ленинград, Россия, Санкт Петербург, Hero City, Leningrad, Re-enactors, Russia, Siege of Leningrad, St. Petersburg
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Liberation Monument, Chisinau, Moldova
Chisinau came under Soviet control on June 28, 1940, with the annexation of the previously Romanian-held regions of Bessarabia and Bukovina and the subsequent formation of the Moldavian SSR. On November 10, 1940, the city suffered significant damage from a … Continue reading
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