The Green Belt of Glory

Categories / Tsarskoe Selo and town of Pushkin. The digital chronological reference book/The Pantheon of military glory/Monuments of military glory of the great Patriotic war of 1941-1945.
It is a complex of memorial installations and parks along the 200 kilometer border-line of the Battle of Leningrad. The memorial was designed by architects G.N. Buldakov, V.L. Gaykevich, and M.A. Sementovskaya.
12 memorials of the Green Belt of Glory are located in the territory of 9 districts of St. Petersburg. Most of the memorials are in the Pushkin District.
The population of Pushkin Town was 54,000 people before the war. According to the Nazi atrocities report dated March 07, 1944 18,000 people died in the town during the years of occupation (September 17, 1941 – January 23, 1944): 9,514 civilians died of cold, 7,373 people were shot, and 1,106 people were hung. 17,968 residents of Pushkin were sent to concentration camps. 286 people died under ruins. Only 20 of 1,557 houses survived. Oranienbaum Bridgehead
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