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Entries / Heroic Defenders of Leningrad, Monument to

Heroic Defenders of Leningrad, Monument to


Categories / Architecture/Sculpture, Monuments

HEROIC DEFENDERS OF LENINGRAD, MONUMENT TO was opened in the Pobedy Square 9 June 1975 (the metro station memorial hall was opened 23 February 1978). Architectural-sculptural composition is dominated by a 48-metre obelisk assembled from blocks of the red granite. At the bottom of it one can see a 5 metres bronze sculpture The Victors. There is an opened round hall enclosed by "the torn ring" of concrete and granite with sculptural group on the pedestal beyond the obelisk Blockade made of labradorite. The monument is turned in the direction of Pulkovo Highway, on the front square one can see sculptural groups Pilot and Sailors, National Avengers (Snipers), Defense Works, In the Trenches, Soldiers, The Labour Front (Founders), National Irregulars. In total there are 26 bronze figures in the groups (sculptor M.K. Anikushin). The total architectural design of the ensemble in the Pobedy Square was determined by architects S.B. Speransky, V.A. Kamensky. In an underground hall one can see mosaic panels 1941 and Victory (artists A.A. Mylnikov, S.N. Repin, I.G. Uralov), memorial Chronicle of the Blockade made of 900 copper lists, lists of military units, industrial factories and institutions which took part in the Battle for Leningrad. Competitions for designs were held in 1963-71. Building (on the territory of two hectares) was carried out by people's work over the course of 13 months.

References: Монумент героическим защитникам Ленинграда в годы Великой Отечественной войны: [Фотоальбом] / Авт. вступ. ст. и сост. И. А. Бартенев. М., 1980.

Y. M. Piryutko.

Addresses
Pobedy Square/Saint Petersburg, city

Bibliographies
Монумент героическим защитникам Ленинграда в годы Великой Отечественной войны: [Фотоальбом] / Авт. вступ. ст. и сост. И. А. Бартенев. М., 1980

The subject Index
Siege of 1941-44

Chronograph
1975
1978


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Speransky S.B. (1914-1983), architect.

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