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The Military Cemetery at the 703rd Kilometer of the Moscow Highway

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 5 meters high granite obelisk with the inscription “Glory to the heroes who died in combats for the Motherland. 1941 - 1945” stands on a hill. The monument is made of marble and granite. It is surrounded with 40 headstones with the names of the soldiers who were fighting at this line. The cemetery is under the patronage of the Shushary State Farm, the Lensovetsky State Farm, PMK-14, and ATP 3176.