The troops of Nazi Germany and could not get this high. It was the Battle of Stalingrad and the tank battle at Kursk was a turning point in World War II. Mamaev Kurgan immediately became one of the places you go to worship the heroes of that time, remember the moments straschnyh era. The importance of the role played in the history of our glorious fight for Mamaev Kurgan is the fact that only here and at the Mausoleum there are soldiers of the guard around the clock, giving the eternal honor and preserving the eternal memory. Eternal flame burns ...
Today we with you have the opportunity to "take" this height. In the way!
I will mention again that the Mamaev Kurgan for me - a special place. A special, anyway. Drawn to her like a magnet. I do not know what to blame: the fact that I was a kid was reading books about the Great Patriotic War, or indeed a marvelous magnetism height. I was in Volgograd, 5 times in 4 years. Mamaev Kurgan - the only place that I purposely visited her in all these five trips. I just love it. I especially remember my first trip: changing of the guard (every hour, be sure to look at this show - very fascinating!), Leaving his autograph in the book of memory (but in the last two trips I have this book has something not seen), inspiring the height of the Motherland Yes, mother, and first impressions are generally the strongest. And alone is worth a trip in April 2007. When I got to the Mamaev Kurgan in the morning: the lack of tourists, an unusually small number of people, the April heat, greening grass ... Such grace and tranquility in the air that inevitably forget that this is one of the most liberally sprinkled with blood places on the entire territory of Russia.
Getting started with the memorial is on its way, through the trees of the park when you see the sword, and entered the familiar profile of a woman (well, I can not call this a masterpiece of soulless monument. For me it's always - Motherland!) Tall step with the inscription "For our Soviet Motherland, "and has far shown for the first line of defense of the mound - a soldier with a gun and a grenade. But before it has to go on a concrete alley lined with poplars. For a soldier stands Motherland. While you walk, climb, many thoughts in my head, much like to change your mind about, much like to talk, to share, but gradually the greatness of the place completely covers you. Understanding does not come immediately, but covers like a cap. IT WAS HERE! Here it is - Mamaev Kurgan, a milestone in history that will never be forgotten.
Going round fighter, you come to another stairway. At this time in the concrete along the sides of steps carved scenes from the city's defense, a lot of variety of figures are united by one purpose - they are fighting for the Motherland! A voice from the speaker causes the start: "From the Soviet Information Bureau. Yesterday our troops ... "and then heard the front songs of those years. The atmosphere is compressed around you, and the legs themselves are on.
Front of a huge reservoir of the witnesses are located next war: the wounded sailor, nurse, trailing by a soldier, men ... You come to a wall, a great battle canvas in concrete: how to begin storming the mound, and about what happened after that. You stand, you think ... "Who is to come to us with a sword ..."
After low-pass you go to the Eternal Flame - a circular room with a guard. Gold glitter on the walls of the names. Plates, plaques, ... There are hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of those who gave their lives for something that you are able to safely climb the Mamaev Kurgan. After standing at the Eternal Flame, you climb to the upper platform. Next is the way to the Sorrowful Mother. You feel as though all the pain that pierces a woman who lost her son. The pain is pulsating, shocks given to the head, temples, heart. Low bowed his head and nearly died after, you begin to slowly rise to the top of the hill.
Even such a small half hour ago Motherland begins to increase in size. Not go in a straight line, and zigzags, and during this time you have time to review every line on the face of a woman with a sword, which calls for him to "this last and decisive battle." And you know that if you were there, could not resist the power of this call. Walk around the monument, lift up his eyes: "Well, he, I, here, look!", But the woman's eyes still directed into the distance, on the invisible soldiers of this war ... And you also begin to look at. At the peace Volgograd, calmly rolling in its waters the Volga, to the factories, the stadium, the people at the bottom ... And it seems that there was nothing of this: there were many months of siege, hourly bombing, there was no Nazi fresh regiments to the mound, was Lieutenant Pavlov's dying, but no dealer, no ... And just because you start thinking about how once something stabs in the heart: it was! It was! And you, child, we can only get on one knee and bow his head to the courage of those who gave thee this day. All that you can do for them now is to keep the eternal memory of the heart, the eternal blessed memory ...
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