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The Main Line

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.

The platform at the 21st kilometer.
Here was a contact point between the 42nd and the 55th armies that were defending Leningrad along the south-eastern and the south-western lines. The contact point is marked by a pyramidal hill with two antitank guns standing on various height back slabs. A reinforced concrete block with the inscription “This was the main line of Soviet Army’s defense. 1941-1944” is mounted into a hill side.
The memorial was inaugurated in 1968.
It was designed by architects E.D.
Bychkov and N.N. Karasev.