Monument to the Defenders of Dnepropetrovsk

The monument to the defenders of Dnepropetrovsk is a large memorial song dedicated to soldiers who died during the defense of the city. It was opened in the presence of combatants, veterans and relatives of those killed in 1975. A wave of new monuments, memorials and statues was timed to the 30th anniversary of the Great Victory. The city as a place of active battles of World War II, crowded mass graves and cemeteries of Soviet soldiers.

Architecture composition

At first glance, a simple monument in the form of the three dangling in the air stone slabs. Just being close, you can feel the force of the ideas, its greatness and power. Feelings are unique: a large platform bowed in a single plane, forming something unhealed painful, always relevant and important as the pain of loss, experienced by every citizen in incessant battles for Dnepropetrovsk in 1941.

It is known that at the site of the present cemetery monument there, a mass grave with unidentified soldiers, hastily built colleagues. The death toll in this area is still to be confirmed, it confirmed the figure - a few hundred people. The battle took place near Dnepropetrovsk off the coast of Samara.

How to find a point of interest

The most accessible route to the monument to the defenders of Dnepropetrovsk is in two well-equipped transport Street: Prospect Street Vorontsov or Snowball. Prospect is located at the exit from the city`s main bridge and connects several leading lines from the left bank. Reaching one of these streets is to move to the side of the street of Journalists, and then - street Vinokourov, which flows into the street cadets - it is a monument to her.