Volgograd. Mamayev Kurgan - The Honor Guard of Eternal Flame [4K]
Look at the change of The Honor guard of Eternal flame at the memorial complex Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd city and honor the memory of the millions of Soviet people - victims of the Stalingrad battle and whose names are forever saved on the walls of the Hall of Military Glory. This is one of the most sad and at the same time memorable places in Russia, where you are pierced by all the sorrow that the Soviet people experienced in World War II.
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Mamayev Kurgan (Russian: Мамаев курган) is a dominant height overlooking the city of Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad) in Southern Russia. The name in Russian means tumulus of Mamai. The formation is dominated by a memorial complex commemorating the Battle of Stalingrad (August 1942 to February 1943). The battle, a hard-fought Soviet victory over Axis forces on the Eastern front of World War II, turned into one of the bloodiest battles in human history. At the time of its installation in 1967 the statue named The Motherland Calls on Mamayev Kurgan formed the largest free-standing sculpture in the world; as of 2018 it is the tallest sculpture of a woman in the world
When forces of the German Sixth Army launched their attack against the city centre of Stalingrad on 13 September 1942, Mamayev Kurgan (appearing in military maps as Height 102.0) saw particularly fierce fighting between the German attackers and the defending soldiers of the Soviet 62nd Army. Control of the hill became vitally important, as it offered control over the city. To defend it, the Soviets had built strong defensive lines on the slopes of the hill, composed of trenches, barbed-wire and minefields. The Germans pushed forward against the hill, taking heavy casualties. When they finally captured the hill, they started firing on the city centre, as well as on the city's main railway station under the hill. They captured the Volgograd railway station on 14 September 1942.
On the same day, the Soviet 13th Guards Rifle Division commanded by Alexander Rodimtsev arrived in the city from the east side of the river Volga under heavy German artillery fire. The division's 10,000 men immediately rushed into the battle. On 16 September they recaptured Mamayev Kurgan and kept fighting for the railway station, taking heavy losses. By the following day, almost all of them had died. The Soviets kept reinforcing their units in the city as fast as they could. The Germans assaulted up to twelve times a day, and the Soviets would respond with fierce counter-attacks.
The hill changed hands several times. By 27 September, the Germans again captured half of Mamayev Kurgan. The Soviets held their own positions on the slopes of the hill, as the 284th Rifle Division defended the key stronghold. The defenders held out until 26 January 1943, when the counterattacking Soviet forces relieved them. The battle of the city ended one week later with an utter German defeat.
When the battle ended, the soil on the hill had been so thoroughly churned by shellfire and mixed with metal fragments that it contained between 500 and 1,250 splinters of metal per square meter. The earth on the hill had remained black in the winter, as the snow kept melting in the many fires and explosions. In the following spring the hill would still remain black, as no grass grew on its scorched soil. The hill's formerly steep slopes had become flattened in months of intense shelling and bombardment. Even today, it is possible to find fragments of bone and metal still buried deep throughout the hill.
After the war, the Soviet authorities commissioned the enormous Mamayev Kurgan memorial complex. Vasily Chuikov, who led Soviet forces at Stalingrad, lies buried at Mamayev Kurgan, the first Marshal of the Soviet Union to be buried outside Moscow. Soviet sniper Vasily Zaytsev was also reburied there in 2006.
The monumental memorial was constructed between 1959 and 1967, and is crowned by a huge allegorical statue of the Motherland on the top of the hill. The monument, designed by Yevgeny Vuchetich, has the full name The Motherland Calls! (Russian: Родина-мать зовёт! Rodina Mat Zovyot!). It consists of a concrete sculpture, 52 metres tall, and 85 metres from the feet to the tip of the 27-metre sword, dominating the skyline of the city of Stalingrad (later renamed Volgograd).
Guards Changing Ceremony @ Eternal Flame, Mamayev Kurgan, Volgograd, Russia
The Eternal Flame memorial in Mamayev Kurgan is built to commemorate the soldiers who gave their lives during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.
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Mamaev Kurgan Volgograd - changing of the guard at the eternal flame.
Sunday 6th April 2014.
Russia: Lavrov and Steinmeier pay tribute to WWII at Volgograd's Eternal Flame
German Foreign Minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier joined his Russian counter-part Sergei Lavrov to lay flowers at the Eternal Flame memorial in the Mamayev Kurgan, Volgograd on Thursday.
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The Eternal Flame (Вечный огонь) Soviet WWII song English Lyrics
Composer: Rafail Hozak Lyrics: Evgeny Agranovich
The Eternal Flame (From heroes of the Past)
Of the heroes of days long past
Sometimes not even names remain
Those who accepted the deadly struggle
Simply became earth, and grass
Only their formidable courage
In living hearts remains
This eternal flame
That we have received
We keep in our chests.
Look at my soldiers
The entire world remembers their faces
A firm battalion, in formation.
I recognize my old friends.
Although not yet twenty five,
What hard times they had to face.
These are the ones, who with bayonets,
Stood up, as one.
Those who took Berlin.
There is no family in Russia,
That does not remember their heroes.
And eyes, young soldiers,
In faded pictures watch.
This vision is like that of a supreme court
For the boys that grow up now.
And those boys cannot
deceive nor lie
They simply cannot fail.
От героев былых времён
Не осталось порой имён.
Те, кто приняли смертный бой,
Стали просто землёй и травой.
Только грозная доблесть их
Поселилась в сердцах живых,
Этот вечный огонь
Нам завещанный одним
Мы в груди храним.
Погляди на моих бойцов,
Целый свет помнит их в лицо
Вот застыл батальон в строю
Снова старых друзей узнаю.
Хоть им нет двадцати пяти,
Трудный путь им пришлось пройти
Это те, кто в штыки
Поднимался, как один,
Те, кто брал Берлин.
Нет в России семьи такой
Где б не памятен был свой герой,
И глаза молодых солдат
С фотографий увядших глядят.
Этот взгляд, словно высший суд,
Для ребят, что сейчас растут
И мальчишкам нельзя
Ни солгать, ни обмануть
Ни с пути свернуть.
Volgograd, Guard to the Eternal Flame
Eternal flame - changing guards in Volgograd (Stalingrad)
Changing guards at the eternal flame memorial in Volgograd, known by most as Stalingrad..
I want to point out the additional discipline shown by the soldiers, most of us while using anti-mosquitoes spray, we still had to use our hands often to keep them from landing on our face or elsewhere (yes, it was that bad)..
Under such conditions, they never moved unless necessary, but I also liked the sergeant, he took good care of them wiping their sweat and checking on them one by one regularly to make sure they're okay in the unbearable summer heat..
Mamayev Kurgan Volgograd eternal flame
Guards at eternal flame for battle of Stalingrad
Guard at the Eternal Flame, Kyrgan Hill, Volgograd
On the Kurgan Hill in Volgograd stands the massive Mother of the Nation statue/monument as well as the perpetual Guard to the Eternal Flame
Lavrov and Steinmeier pay tribute to victims of WW2 Battle of Stalingrad
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier pay their respects to the memorial mass graves of Russian and German soldiers in Volgograd, Russia. Formerly known as Stalingrad, the city was the scene of the bloodiest battle in World War II and possibly in the history of warfare.
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Changing of the guard ceremony at the eternal flame in Volgograd/Stalingrad
Stalingrad: The Greatest Battlefield of All Time - Renamed Volgograd Celebrates 75th Anniversary
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Today Volgograd saw large-scale celebrations of the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad victory.
The heroic battle on the banks of the Volga continued for 200 days and nights, and turned the tide of WWII. Thousands of people came to the Mamayev Kurgan to honor the fallen heroes. President Vladimir Putin laid flowers by the Eternal Flame.
Russia. Volgograd, changing of the guard at the Eternal Flame. Смена караула
Hall of Military Glory, Eternal Flame, changing of the guard, July 2017
Волгоград, Зал Воинской Славы, Вечный огонь, смена караула, июль 2017
У Вечного огня и на выходе из Зала Воинской Славы стоят солдаты 46-й стрелковой роты Почётного караула Волгоградского гарнизона роты Южного федерального округа. Создана смена Почетного караула в январе 1968 года. Служба Почетного караула начинается в 9 утра, а заканчивает около 7-8 вечера
Священная война (The Sacred War) - Alexandrov Red Army Choir
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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 eternal flame changing of the guard
Eternal Flame moved to temporary new home
(27 Dec 2009)
1. Close up of Eternal Flame and Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Memorial
2. Wide of Eternal Flame, Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Memorial and guard of honour
3. Mid of soldiers with flags
4. Various of military officers with with unlit torch walking towards memorial
5. Mid of guard of honour
6. Officer lighting torch
7. Military band playing
8. Armoured vehicle seen through haze of eternal flame
9. Onlookers
10. Armoured vehicle with eternal flame driving off
11. Close up of reflection of flame on ground
12. Close up of Eternal Flame being extinguished
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One of the symbols of Russia''s great sacrifice during World War II - the Eternal Flame - was temporarily moved on Sunday morning from its place near the Kremlin Wall.
The flame is being transferred to a different location so that the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Memorial in the Aleksandrovsky Garden can be restored.
The solemn ceremony to transfer the flame was held in the early morning. It was taken to Poklonnaya Gora, which houses a World War II memorial complex. It will be there for a couple of months while the restoration works take place.
Despite rain dozens of people came to to watch the ceremony being performed by a guard of honour.
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier was originally unveiled in 1967.
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The Story Behind Europe's Tallest Statue: The Motherland Calls | National Geographic
At the scale of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., the memorial complex at the Battle of Stalingrad in Volgograd, Russia, includes the tallest statue in Europe: The Motherland Calls. During his World-Cup tour of Russia, National Geographic reporter Sergey Gordeev gives an insider’s look of the hallowed ground where the Soviet army stopped the German advance during World War II.
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Russia: Ceremony marks 50th anniversary of Eternal Flame in Moscow
An honour guard assisted in a ceremonial rekindling of the Eternal Flame on its 50th anniversary at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the Alexander Garden, near the Kremlin Wall in Moscow on Monday.
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Russia: Eternal Flame relay begins in Moscow as part of V-day celebrations
A relay taking the Eternal Flame across Russia started in Moscow, Wednesday, after a ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, near the Kremlin wall, as part of this year's V-Day 70th anniversary celebrations.
An honorary guard laid a wreath at the Moscow war memorial before lighting the relay torch.
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Mamayev Kurgan
Mamayev Kurgan is a dominant height overlooking the city of Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad) in Southern Russia. The name in Russian means tumulus of Mamai...
52 metres tall, and 82 metres from the feet to the tip of the 27-metre sword...