Monument pilot-Komsomol 81 th Regiment
Monument pilots Komsomol 81 th Regiment, to repeat the feat of Captain NF Gastello, located on the central avenue of the park "Youth" (street Quay Factory) . Beautiful stele with integrated metal composition by sculptor AI Zhiradkovym, Yu Zhiradkovym and architect DI Shcherbakov. The monument was inaugurated in 1967, the viewer, in the very place where the characters made the feat in August 1941.
The feat Gastello
All modern history textbooks military affairs and aviation has a special article dedicated to Captain Nicholas Gastello Frantsevich. 33-year-old pilot of combat aircraft made an outstanding feat in the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. Realizing that the enemy was able to knock out his aircraft during a combat mission, he sent a burning car, so that at the time of the fall cause the greatest possible damage to the enemy. Thus, the hero Gastello with their lives destroyed dozens of pieces of military equipment and military point of Hitler`s army.
Pilot-Komsomol 81 th Regiment managed to repeat the heroic feat during the Battle of the Dnieper in 1941. In place of the modern factory Quay enemy concentrated military vehicles, heavy artillery and dozens of tanks for a future crossing to the left bank. It is this accumulation of the falling aircraft destroyed Komsomol, accidentally shot down an enemy during a combat mission.
Eloquent sculpture
Commemorative stele in the center of the park is equipped with a nameplate fallen heroes on the one hand and on the other an unusual composition. The sculptors have depicted the face of downed pilots, sealed at the time of the crash. The overall impression from what he saw fascinating, bringing the viewer into the tragic events of August 1941.
In Historic Place
The right bank of the region of Dnepropetrovsk has often been the hot spot on the map of World War II. After graduation, there were built dozens of monuments and memorials dedicated to the historical events of those years. The battle while crossing the Dnieper in 1943 captured soldiers on the monument 152nd Infantry Division , which can be viewed by going beyond the park. Also in the city you can visit many other monuments dedicated to the revolutionaries and the civil war of the 1920s.
