Monument Ensemble Line of Defense

Eternal Flame, Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Alexander Park, Kremlin, Moscow, Russia

Tomb of the Unknown Soldier - Memorial architectural ensemble in Moscow's Alexander Garden, the Kremlin walls.
On the tombstone is a bronze composition - a soldier's helmet and a laurel branch lying on the battle flag.
In the center of the memorial - a niche with the words Your name is unknown, your deed is immortal (proposed by S. Mikhalkov, in another version - the result of joint efforts of poets and writers MK Lukonina, SV Mikhalkov, KM Simon and S. Smirnov.) of labradorite with a bronze five-pointed star in the center, in the middle of which burns the eternal flame of glory.
To the left of the tomb - a wall of crimson quartzite with the inscription: For the Motherland of the Fallen 1941 1945 on the right - a granite walkway with blocks of dark red porphyry. On every block - the name of the hero-city and embossed image of Gold Star. The units are capsules with the ground hero cities:
Leningrad (with Piskarevsky)
Kiev (from the foot of the Obelisk, the participants of Defense)
Stalingrad (with Mamaev Kurgan) - up to September 2004 the inscription reads Volgograd
Odessa (with defensive lines)
Sevastopol (with Malakhov)
Minsk (with defensive lines)
Kerch (with defensive lines)
Novorossiysk (with defensive lines)
The Brest Fortress (from the foot of the walls)
Tula (with defensive lines)
Murmansk (with defensive lines)
Smolensk (with defensive lines).