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To Heroic Militia Men of Pushkin Town

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.

A concrete monument to the heroes of the 76th and the 77th fighter battalions that were formed in Pushkin and took part in the first battle with the Nazi army on February 16, 1941, was erected at an intersection of two parkways in the center of the Alexander Park. The battalions included may teachers and students of the Leningrad Institute of Agriculture (Pushkin Town). Teacher of the Political Economy Department, editor of Bolshevitskoye Slovo A.N. Samoylov was a commissar of the 76th battalion (died in the battle of February 16, 1941). Director of the Leningrad Institute of Agriculture M.S. Lukyanov was a commissar of the 77th battalion. The monument is two intersecting rams mounted into a massive block. “76” and “77” is carved on both rams and “1941” is carved at the top of the block.
The monument was designed by architects E.D. Bychkov and N.I. Karasev.