Park Glory to the heroes

Victory square. It is located in the village of Kichmengskiy Gorodok. Sculpture of the Warrior-Liberator. It is established on June 21, 1968. Sculpture gallery of busts of Heroes of the Soviet Union, knights of the Order of Glory of 3 degrees and St. George's Chevalier of 4 degrees. Manufactured by the participant of the Great Patriotic War MM. Kuznetsov. As the Memorial of Glory was opened on May 9, 1985. The memorial complex is located in the Square of Military Glory in the village of Kichmengskiy Gorodok. From the entrance to the monument leads a wide avenue, on both sides of which are built busts of fellow countrymen - heroes of the Patriotic wars. The monument is a figure of a soldier in a raincoat and with a submachine gun in his lowered hand. The total height of the monument with a pedestal is about 6 meters. Annually on May 9 in the square there are solemn rallies, as well as the action "Candle of Memory" on the Day of Memory and Sorrow. Also on August 4, 1818 a monument to artillerymen was opened at ZIS D-44 gun

On the site of the Square, where tourists and visitors of Gorodok often visit, there used to be a damp place 💧 ... Different shanties were standing, tethering was (the people in Gorodok used to come on horseback 🐴, here they were tied up) ... And then the Komsomol members conceived make Square ... began to haul the land))) The chairman of the regional executive committee was then Vasily Alexandrovich Smirnov ... Progressive person) He came from the Syamzhensky district (well ... then sent someone to work on the party line). He proposed the idea and offered, the youth supported ... ... The park was laid for more than one year: the trees were planted (linden, birch, poplar ... the truth of the poplar was then removed). It was around 1968. Kichmengskiy Gorodok then celebrated its 500th anniversary. ... The activists also decided to put a monument to the participants of the Great Patriotic War. The sculpture was ordered in Moscow (at the combine of monumental and decorative sculpture). They brought in the spring (during the navigation period) and on June 26 they established ... The rally was held))) Busts to the kichmenguns (we have 5 Heroes of the Soviet Union + 2 complete knights of the Order of Glory + St. George knights ...) installed in 1980 ... Mikhail Mikhailovich Kuznetsov (participant in the Battle of Stalingrad ... when he returned home as a teacher of drawing and drawing, was engaged in sculpture) helped in this matter. And in 1996, in honor of the celebration of the 300th anniversary of the Russian fleet, they decided to perpetuate the memory of the dead seamen and set up a monument ("In all ages ...") Chairman of the Seamen's Club in the Kichmeng Township Petr Mikhaylovich Lukin says that in the evenings after work the members of the Seamen's Club gathered stones for the monument. Seven (!) Machines ("Gazikov") were assembled. A anchor in the South River found (before 10 days in the year in April, there were passenger and cargo ships along the river ...). They restored ⚓, painted ... So a monument appeared. And on the 15th anniversary of the sailors' club of reserve (2009), activists decided to install lists for the dead sailors ... 👏 There is a monument to the border guards in the Square of military glory ... And this year (2018), within the framework of the implementation of the federal priority project "Formation of a comfortable urban environment" in Kichmeng Gorodok was landscaped and replaced the fence. 📷 Photo by Alexander Morozov, photo correspondent of the newspaper "Zarya Severa"

Correct name - Square of Military Glory

Square of Military Glory

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