Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery
The Piskarjowskoje Memorial Cemetery ( Russian Пискарёвское мемориальное кладбище ) is a mass burial site for victims of the blockade and participants in the defense of Leningrad of around 470,000 people in World War II ( Great Patriotic War ).
On May 9, 1960 , an architecturally and sculpturally designed memorial was opened in the Piskarjowskoje cemetery . The compositional focus is a bronze sculpture embodying the mother home . In pavilions, exhibits testify to the courage and heroism of the defenders of Leningrad. An eternal fire burns . Creators of the memorial are u. a. the architects Alexander W. Wassiljew and Evgeni Lewinson and the sculptors Vera Issajewa and Robert K. Taurit.
The memorial is closed by a 150 m wide and 4.5 m high granite wall. It carries a poem by Olga Bergholz , a survivor of the blockade.
Leningraders lie here.
Citizens lie here - men, women and children.
Beside them soldiers of the Red Army.
With her life.
Defend you, Leningrad.
The cradle of the revolution.
We cannot name all of their noble names here.
There are so many under the perpetual protection of granite.
But know who you are looking at these stones.
Nobody is forgotten and nothing is forgotten.
literature
- N. Ogarkow and others: Sovetskaya wojennaja enziklopedija: Obekty-Radiokompas . Wojenisdat, Moscow 1978, p. 340. (Russian).
Web links
- The Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 59 ° 59 ′ 48.9 ″ N , 30 ° 25 ′ 16.9 ″ E