75 years after Stalingrad
75 years after the deadly battle of Stalingrad, Russians are still turning up bodies.
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Changing of the Guard. Mamayev Kurgan Memorial, Russia.
Memorial to Russian heroes. Mamayev Hill Memorial is based in Volgograd (formaly known as Stalingrad).
The Battle of Stalingrad began on 19 of August 1942 and ended on February 2, 1943. The first massive bombing of Stalingrad took place on 19 August 1942. By February 2nd 1943 Field Marshal Paulus, signed the unconditional surrender of his army.
At that time Stalingrad was a major industrial center, producing, in particular,
T-34 tanks. The Stalingrad area was the largest agricultural region. All this
(the production of weapons and food) helped to win at that battle.
The capture of this area was one of Hitler's strategic objectives.
After the defeat near Moscow in 1941, Hitler renounced its capture and in 1942 directed his efforts to capture Stalingrad and the Caucasus. Caucasus - that is Baku oil.
Winter, of course, played a role, but the key was in a fierce resistance both the civilian population and the army.
In 1956, took place 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which denounced Stalin's personality cult and served as a starting point for the country's democratization in the postwar period. A byproduct of this was the renaming of Stalingrad which is now known as Volgograd.
German cemetery in Stalingrad - Soldatenfriedhof Rossoschka
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View of some of the names written on the monument at Rossoshka, in which the German soldiers killed during the battle of Stalingrad are buried.
Deutsche Soldatenfriedhof in Rossoschka, Stalingrad.
Harvest of death - Stalingrad digging 2017
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Exhumation of bodies of WWII Soviet soldiers in the Stalingrad area by Russian volunteers during the summer of 2017. The soldiers were killed during the battle of Stalingrad in 1942-43. All recovered bodies were reburied in the Rossoshka war cemetery.
Volunteers came from all over Russia including Volgograd, Krasnoyarsk, Tuva, Archangelsk, Kazan and France.
When the bodies were buried with metalic items such as helmets or unexploded ordnance, they were found thanks to Tresure Master 808 metal detectors.
One body was found still wearing a shrapnel damaged helmet. A corresponding hole was found in the skull.
WWII era Soviet soldiers were not equipped with identification tags. Instead, they were issued a small ebony tube that contained a sheet of paper on which they were to write their name and particulars. Many soldiers were superstitious however, and considered that wearing an identification tag would bring them bad luck and certain death; so most soldiers did not carry the tube with them. Even if the tube was correctly worn, 70 years have taken their toll, and the paper inside the tube has often disintegrated or become unreadable. In consequence, the vast majority of Soviet bodies that are recovered nowadays can no longer be identified.
Soviet soldiers often engraved their names on their spoon, or on other personal items such as knives, mess tins, or cigarette boxes. When bodies are discovered nowadays, it is such engraved items that most often enable a body to be identified. Digging expeditions frequently take place in April and in late May, and the bodies that are recovered are then reburied on May 9th, the day that victory Europe is celebrated in the East.
En Russie, dans la région de Stalingrad, des volontaires cherchent et exhument des corps de Soldats Soviétiques morts en 1942.
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hey would bring 20 guys here for every single mine, and evacuate half a town, but in russia, you just put the mines in a wheel barrow without a fuss, and take 'em away... you gotta love it!
How heartbreaking, each of these men who fell left behind a mother, father, wife, girlfriend brother, or sister who never knew his final moments or where his remains laid and carried a hole in their heart for him. They died in agony, far from loved ones. God save us from ourselves.
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Q: What happened to their uniforms? I noticed boots on a few but no evidence of clothing.
A: are you talking about the dead soldiers or the people digging them up?...I noticed evidence of them wearing diapers so at least its something
Visiting of German-Russian War Cemetery of Stalingrad - Rossoshka Memorial Cemetery, Volgograd
Rossoshka Memorial Cemetery, Volgograd - Volgograd formerly known as Stalingrad
Discover the history of Volgograd Special Tour “Stalingrad Battlefield Tour“ / including Victory Day Parade (9th May)
Duration: 6 to 10 days
This is one of our anual special interest tours to Russia. Each May we offer an unforgetable trip to Volgograd, formerly known as Stalingrad. One of the hightlights will bet he Victory Day Parade.
DAY 1
In the afternoon arrival in Volgograd. After immigration formalities, meet with our English speaking guide. Russian welcome, Transfer to the booked hotel. Check-in, time to refresh and dinner at the hotel. Accommodation at the booked hotel.
DAY 2
Breakfast at hotel. Meet in the lobby and start of the sightseeing tour. Visit of the Mamajew hill. After the visit transfer to the Panorama Museum and get to know about the history of the Battle of Stalingrad. In the afternoon return to the hotel. Dinner at hotel. Accommodation at the booked hotel.
DAY 3
Breakfast at hotel.
-Victory Day- Festivities within the whole city and military parade on the main square of the city.
Enjoy the festivities on your own and experience the unique atmosphere.
In the evening dinner at the hotel. Accommodation at the booked hotel.
DAY 4
Breakfast at hotel. Full Day excursion to the suburbs of Stalingrad where the battles took place. Visit of the Russian and German cemetery in Rossoschka. Late afternoon, visit of the German visitors center in Rossoschka and small snacks. In the afternoon return to the city center of Volgograd. Free time till dinner.
Dinner at the hotel. Accommodation at the booked hotel.
DAY 5
Breakfast at hotel. Full Day excursion to city of Kalatsch on the river Don. Sightseeing and freetime in Kalatsch. Transfer back to Wolgograd.
Dinner at the hotel. Accommodation at the booked hotel.
DAY 6
Breakfast at the hotel, checkout and departure.
6 to 10 Days in Wolgograd/Stalingrad
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Price per person including half board and flight (from Germany)
In TWN/DBL rooms starting with EUR 1,790.00
Single room supplement EUR 280,00
Price include: flights from/to Russia/Germany, accommodation in good middle class hotel (4* local standard), Half Board. Programme and all transfers according to the programme. English speaking guide throughout.
Not included: Visa, insurances, extras not mentioned in program.
Minimum group size: 5 pax
You can also extend your stay in Russia, for example in St. Petersburg or Moscow.
All necessary things for your visa we can prepare for your trip and visa registration.
Rates include:
Flight from Germany and 5 nights accommodation in good middle class hotel (4* local standard), Full Board.
Programme and all transfers according to the programme.
English speaking guide throughout.
Not included:
Visa, Insurances, Meals other and mentioned in program
In addition to our 6 days tour you can also extend your stay in Volgograd for a River Cruise upstream/downstream on Wolga River or stop for a couple more days in Moscow.
– Please contact us for more details and see our other trips at
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The Motherland Calls (Russian: Родина-мать зовёт! Rodina-Mat' zovyot!), also called Homeland-Mother, Homeland-Mother Is Calling, simply The Motherland, or The Mamayev Monument, is a statue in Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd, Russia, commemorating the Battle of Stalingrad. It was designed by sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich and structural engineer Nikolai Nikitin, and declared the largest statue in the world in 1967. Today, it is the tallest statue of a woman in the world, not including pedestals.
Compared with the later higher statues, The Motherland Calls is significantly more complex from an engineering point of view, due to its characteristic posture with a sword raised high in the right hand and the left hand extended in a calling gesture. The technology behind the hollow statue is based on a combination of prestressed concrete with wire ropes structure, a solution which can be found also in another work of Nikitin's, the super-tall Ostankino Tower in Moscow.
When the memorial was dedicated in 1967 it was the tallest sculpture in the world, measuring 85 metres (279 ft) from the tip of its sword to the top of the plinth. The figure itself measures 52 metres (171 ft), and the sword 33 metres (108 ft). Two hundred steps, symbolizing the 200 days of the Battle of Stalingrad, lead from the bottom of the hill to the monument. The lead sculptor was Yevgeny Vuchetich, and Nikolai Nikitin handled the significant structural engineering challenges of the 7,900 tonnes (7,800 long tons; 8,700 short tons) concrete sculpture. The statue appears on both the current flag and coat of arms of Volgograd Oblast.
Marshal of the Soviet Union Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov is buried in the area of the monument, as is famous Soviet sniper Vasily Zaytsev, who killed 225 Axis soldiers in the battle of Stalingrad.
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Volgograd Cemetery Excursion
VISIT RUSSIA
Volgograd formerly known as Stalingrad
Discover the history of Volgograd Special Tour “Stalingrad Battlefield Tour“ / including Victory Day Parade (9th May)
Duration: 6 to 10 days
This is one of our anual special interest tours to Russia. Each May we offer an unforgetable trip to Volgograd, formerly known as Stalingrad. One of the hightlights will bet he Victory Day Parade.
DAY 1
In the afternoon arrival in Volgograd. After immigration formalities, meet with our English speaking guide. Russian welcome, Transfer to the booked hotel. Check-in, time to refresh and dinner at the hotel. Accommodation at the booked hotel.
DAY 2
Breakfast at hotel. Meet in the lobby and start of the sightseeing tour. Visit of the Mamajew hill. After the visit transfer to the Panorama Museum and get to know about the history of the Battle of Stalingrad. In the afternoon return to the hotel. Dinner at hotel. Accommodation at the booked hotel.
DAY 3
Breakfast at hotel.
-Victory Day- Festivities within the whole city and military parade on the main square of the city.
Enjoy the festivities on your own and experience the unique atmosphere.
In the evening dinner at the hotel. Accommodation at the booked hotel.
DAY 4
Breakfast at hotel. Full Day excursion to the suburbs of Stalingrad where the battles took place. Visit of the Russian and German cemetery in Rossoschka. Late afternoon, visit of the German visitors center in Rossoschka and small snacks. In the afternoon return to the city center of Volgograd. Free time till dinner.
Dinner at the hotel. Accommodation at the booked hotel.
DAY 5
Breakfast at hotel. Full Day excursion to city of Kalatsch on the river Don. Sightseeing and freetime in Kalatsch. Transfer back to Wolgograd.
Dinner at the hotel. Accommodation at the booked hotel.
DAY 6
Breakfast at the hotel, checkout and departure.
6 to 10 Days in Wolgograd/Stalingrad
extend your stay with or without guide
Price per person including half board and flight (from Germany)
In TWN/DBL rooms starting with EUR 1,790.00
Single room supplement EUR 280,00
Price include: flights from/to Russia/Germany, accommodation in good middle class hotel (4* local standard), Half Board. Programme and all transfers according to the programme. English speaking guide throughout.
Not included: Visa, insurances, extras not mentioned in program.
Minimum group size: 5 pax
You can also extend your stay in Russia, for example in St. Petersburg or Moscow.
All necessary things for your visa we can prepare for your trip and visa registration.
Rates include:
Flight from Germany and 5 nights accommodation in good middle class hotel (4* local standard), Full Board.
Programme and all transfers according to the programme.
English speaking guide throughout.
Not included:
Visa, Insurances, Meals other and mentioned in program
In addition to our 6 days tour you can also extend your stay in Volgograd for a River Cruise upstream/downstream on Wolga River or stop for a couple more days in Moscow.
– Please contact us for more details and see our other trips at
Incentives-Worldwide.com
#Stalingrad #visitRussia #VictoryDay
See more on our websites and Facebook.
We offer more tours all around the world - Incentives-Worldwide.com
All trips hosted by
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Events Incentives Adventures
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60489 Frankfurt am Main
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‘Every soldier has right to a grave’ Orthodox priest guards German military cemetery in Russia
Some 75,000 German soldiers are buried in Sologubovka, a village 80 kilometers from St. Petersburg. A Russian Orthodox priest holds watch over a cemetery there – and explains why.
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Volgograd on $100: Victory Day parade, The Motherland Calls, and Salt
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Russia: Presidential regiment guard ceremony held for first time in 2014
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Russia: Presidential regiment guard ceremony held for first time in 2014
The ceremony of the presidential regiment infantry and cavalry guard mount was held for the first time this year on Saturday in Moscow.
Several hundred people gathered at Sobornaya square to watch the elite soldiers march and show off their skills. The event was open to all visitors and was first shown to the public in April 2005.
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Russia/Moscow (Changing of the Guard at the Tomb of the Unknow Soldier-Kremlin) Part 10
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The Russian Tomb of the Unknown is just outside the Kremlin. The Changing of the Guard ceremony is fascinating in every country.The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (Могила Неизвестного Солдата in Russian, [mɐˈɡʲilə nʲɪɪˈzvʲɛsnəvə sɐlˈdatə]) is a war memorial, dedicated to the Soviet soldiers killed during World War II. It is located at the Kremlin Wall in the Alexander Garden in Moscow.
The remains of the unknown soldiers killed in the Battle of Moscow in 1941 were initially buried in a mass grave of the Shtyki Memorial at the 40th km of the Leningrad highway at the city of Zelenograd. This was the location of the closest approach of the German armies to Moscow during the war. To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the battle, in December 1966 these remains were relocated to the Kremlin Wall. The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier was designed by architects D. I. Burdin, V. A. Klimov, Yu. R. Rabayev and sculptor Nikolai Tomsky, and was unveiled to the public on May 8, 1967. The dark red porphyry monument is decorated with a bronze sculpture of a laurel branch and a soldier's helmet laid upon a banner.
In front of the monument, there is a five-pointed star in a square field of labradorite, which emanates the Eternal Flame from its center. The flame illuminates a bronze inscription Имя твоё неизвестно, подвиг твой бессмертен (translit.: Imya tvoyo neizvestno, podvig tvoy bessmerten, Your name is unknown, your deed is immortal). The torch for the memorial's Eternal Flame was transported from Leningrad, where it had been lit from the Eternal Flame at the Field of Mars.
To the left of the tomb is a granite wall with an inlay stating: 1941 - To Those Who Have Fallen For The Motherland - 1945. To the right of the tomb, lining the walkway are dark red porphyry blocks with incapsulated soils from hero cities, Leningrad, Kiev, Stalingrad, Odessa, Sevastopol, Minsk, Kerch, Novorossiysk, Tula and Brest, Murmansk and Smolensk. The plate for “Stalingrad” read “Volgograd” until September 2004. Further to the right of these monuments is an obelisk in red granite, listing the names of 40 “Cities of Military Glory” divided into groups of four. This monument was dedicated on May 8, 2010.
In 1997, a Guard of Honour of the Kremlin Regiment (which had guarded the Lenin Mausoleum) was restored at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the federal law of December 8, 1997, On Immortalizing the Soviet People’s Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. A Changing of the Guard Ceremony takes place every hour.
Russia 1942/43 ▶ Battle of Stalingrad - Volgograd anniversary and victory celebrations
Russia 1942/43 ▶ Battle of Stalingrad - Volgograd
Anniversary and victory celebrations on the occasion of victory of the Soviet Red Army against German, Austrian, Romanian, Croatian, Italian and Hungarian Axis troops in the Battles of Don and Stalingrad. Volgograd - the former Stalingrad - an important Russian industrial city on the lower Volga, was during the Second World War 2 place of one of the most lossy battles in world history. The city was called Stalingrad between 1925 and 1961 and Tsaritsyn / Zarizyn before 1925
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Drone Shots Episode 12: Soviet War Memorial (Treptower Park, Berlin)
Soviet War Memorial (Treptower Park, Berlin)
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The Soviet War Memorial is a war memorial and military cemetery in Berlin's Treptower Park. It was built to the design of the Soviet architect Yakov Belopolsky to commemorate 7,000 of the 80,000 Soviet soldiers who fell in the Battle of Berlin in April–May 1945. It opened four years after World War II on May 8, 1949. The Memorial served as the central war memorial of East Germany.
The monument is one of three Soviet memorials built in Berlin after the end of the war. The other two memorials are the Tiergarten memorial, built in 1945 in the Tiergarten district of what later became West Berlin, and the Soviet War Memorial Schönholzer Heide in Berlin's Pankow district.
Together with the Rear-front Memorial in Magnitogorsk and The Motherland Calls in Volgograd, the monument is a part of a triptych.
*HISTORY*
At the conclusion of World War II, three Soviet war memorials were built in the city of Berlin to commemorate Soviet deaths in World War II, especially the 80,000 that died during the Battle of Berlin. The memorials are not only commemorative, but also serve as cemeteries for those killed.
A competition was announced shortly after the end of the war for the design of the park. The competition attracted 33 entries, with the eventual design a hybrid of the submissions of the architect Jakow S. Belopolski, sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich, painter Alexander A. Gorpenko and engineer Sarra S. Walerius. The sculptures, reliefs, and 2.5 meter diameter Flammenschalen (flame bowls) were cast at the Kunstgießerei Lauchhammer in 1948. The memorial itself was built in Treptower Park on land previously occupied by a sports field. The memorial was completed in 1949. The stones and granite that were used in the construction came from the demolished New Reich Chancellery.
Around the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall, unknown persons vandalized parts of the memorial with anti-Soviet graffiti. The Spartacist party claimed that the vandals were right-wing extremists and arranged a demonstration on January 3, 1990, which the PDS supported; 250,000 GDR citizens participated. Through the demonstrations, the newly formed party stayed true to the communist roots of its founding party, and attempted to gain political influence. PDS chairman Gregor Gysi took this opportunity to call for a Verfassungsschutz (Constitution Protection) for the GDR, and questioned whether the Amt für Nationale Sicherheit (Department of National Security, the successor of the Stasi) should be reorganized or phased out. Historian Stefan Wolle believes that Stasi officers may have been behind the vandalism, since they feared for their jobs.
As part of the Two Plus Four Agreement, Germany agreed to assume maintenance and repair responsibility for all war memorials in the country, including the Soviet memorial in Treptower Park. However, Germany must consult the Russian Federation before undertaking any changes to the memorial.
Since 1995, an annual vigil has taken place at the memorial on May 9, organized by (among others) the Bund der Antifaschisten Treptow e.V. (Anti-fascist Coalition of Treptow). The motto of the event is the Day of Freedom, corresponding to Victory Day, a Russian holiday and the final surrender of German soldiers at the end of World War II.
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The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (Могила Неизвестного Солдата in Russian, [mɐˈɡʲilə nʲɪɪˈzvʲɛsnəvə sɐlˈdatə]) is a war memorial, dedicated to the Soviet soldiers killed during World War II. It is located at the Kremlin Wall in the Alexander Garden in Moscow.
The remains of the unknown soldiers killed in the Battle of Moscow in 1941 were initially buried in a mass grave of the Shtyki Memorial at the 40th km of the Leningrad highway at the city of Zelenograd. This was the location of the closest approach of the German armies to Moscow during the war. To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the battle, in December 1966 these remains were relocated to the Kremlin Wall. The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier was designed by architects D. I. Burdin, V. A. Klimov, Yu. R. Rabayev and sculptor Nikolai Tomsky, and was unveiled to the public on May 8, 1967. The dark red porphyry monument is decorated with a bronze sculpture of a laurel branch and a soldier's helmet laid upon a banner.
In front of the monument, there is a five-pointed star in a square field of labradorite, which emanates the Eternal Flame from its center. The flame illuminates a bronze inscription Имя твоё неизвестно, подвиг твой бессмертен (translit.: Imya tvoyo neizvestno, podvig tvoy bessmerten, Your name is unknown, your deed is immortal). The torch for the memorial's Eternal Flame was transported from Leningrad, where it had been lit from the Eternal Flame at the Field of Mars.
To the left of the tomb is a granite wall with an inlay stating: 1941 - To Those Who Have Fallen For The Motherland - 1945. To the right of the tomb, lining the walkway are dark red porphyry blocks with incapsulated soils from hero cities, Leningrad, Kiev, Stalingrad, Odessa, Sevastopol, Minsk, Kerch, Novorossiysk, Tula and Brest, Murmansk and Smolensk. The plate for “Stalingrad” read “Volgograd” until September 2004. Further to the right of these monuments is an obelisk in red granite, listing the names of 40 “Cities of Military Glory” divided into groups of four. This monument was dedicated on May 8, 2010.
In 1997, a Guard of Honour of the Kremlin Regiment (which had guarded the Lenin Mausoleum) was restored at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the federal law of December 8, 1997, On Immortalizing the Soviet People’s Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. A Changing of the Guard Ceremony takes place every hour.
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The Soviet War Memorial in Schönholzer Heide (Sowjetisches Ehrenmal in der Schönholzer Heide) in Pankow, Berlin was erected in the period between May 1947 and November 1949 and covers an area of 30 000 m². The memorial contains the biggest Soviet cemetery in Berlin, which is also the biggest Russian cemetery in Europe outside of Russia.
Schönholzer Heide was a popular recreation area in the 19th century. During the Second World War the place was turned into a work camp. After the war the north-western part of the area was used to build the third largest Soviet war memorial in Berlin, together with the memorials in Treptower Park and Tiergarten.
A group of Soviet architects consisting of K. Solovyov, M. Belaventsev, V. Korolyov and the sculptor Ivan Pershudchev made the sketch for the cemetery, where 13,200 of the 80,000 Soviet soldiers that had fallen during the battle of Berlin, should be buried. On a wall around the memorial there are 100 bronze tablets where the names, ranks and birth dates of the soldiers it was possible to identify, are written. This group constitutes about one fifth of the fallen soldiers.
On both side of the main axis, which at its end one finds a 33,5 meter tall obelisk made of syenite, there are placed 8 burial chambers where 1182 soldiers are buried. Under the Honor Hall inside the obelisk there are buried two Soviet colonels.
A statue of the Russian Mother Earth is situated in front of the obelisk and constitutes the main point of the memorial. On the statue's base, which is made out of black porphyry, one finds 42 bronze tablets on which the names of fallen officers are inscribed.
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