Obstacles and Pylons

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.
3 meters high obstacle. Brass boards with the inscription reading “This was the main line of Soviet Army’s defense in 1941-1944” are mounted on two sides of the obstacle.
21st kilometer of the Kiev Highway. Two 3 meters high pylons at the entrance to the Pulkovo Heights from the Gatchina side rise over the former
main line of defense.
This is the place where fierce fighting for the Pulkovo Heights (key south-west positions of Leningrad defense) raged in September of 1941. The 5th and the 6th militia divisions and other forces of the 42nd army were heroically fighting here with the support of the naval artillery of the Baltic fleet. A salvo of hundreds of guns thrilled the land at 9.20 a.m. on January 15, 1944. The 30th guards regiment started the attack from here. The monument was designed by architect K.L. Johannsen and V.A. Petrov. “1941 – 1945” is written on the side walls of the pylons. Baltic Fleet