Alley of Glory (St. Petersburg)

The Glory Alley is part of the Kirovsky Val memorial complex, part of the Leningrad Green Belt of Glory . The alley was created in 1966 by the architect S. G. Maiofis . It consists of 900 birch trees (according to the rounded number of days of the blockade ), forming an avenue, and decorative concrete anti-tank altars along the avenue. The names of the organizations involved in the creation of the alley are given on the nuts. ^[1] Also near the alley are a number of monuments erected in the 1970s – 1980s. The Kirovsky Val complex is included in the Unified State Register of Cultural Heritage Objects (Historical and Cultural Monuments) of the Peoples of the Russian Federation as a monument to the history of federal significance (normative act: Government Decree No. 527 of July 10, 2001).

The alley begins in Kirovsky district from the Narodnoy Opolcheniya Avenue in 1946 ( on the map ), then there is an obelisk and a military burial "Ligovo", the square "Front End of Defense" ^[2] . Then the alley passes over the bridge over the r. Dudergofku . Next are the memorable stela at the forefront of the defense. Then the alley is interrupted by Marshal Zhukov Avenue , followed by the passage to Krasnoselsky District. Next, there are the heads and steles "The Front Edge of Defense", then the alley follows the direction of Veterans Avenue , again crosses over the r. Dudergofku (building registration number 78: 40: 8461A: 0: 19), is interrupted by Veterans Avenue, then follows through Polezhaevsky Park , crosses the Duderhof Canal through a cable-stayed bridge. The end of the Walk of Fame is located at Peterhof Highway, where there is a platform with a monument - a stele and an anchor.

Obelisk and Ligovo military burial

  Object of cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation of federal significance. Reg. No. 781510212330006 ( EGROKN ). Object No. 7810229000 (Wikigid BD)

The text on the tablet: "At this turn, September 18, 1941, the heroic defenders of Leningrad stopped the German hordes and occupied an invincible defense"
The memorial was formed in 1977 and 1985. Architects: V. M. Ivanov, K. L. Johansen, V. A. Petrov. The first concrete obelisk was installed in 1944 (architect KL Iogansen and V. A. Petrov).
Balusters fence made in the form of shells. The obelisk is granite.

The Ligovo memorial includes a mass grave for the defenders of Leningrad. Memorial nameplates are missing. According to various sources, 792 people were buried in the mass grave (OBD Memorial) or 996 people (Military Commissariat for the Admiralty and Kirovsky Districts) ^[3]

Memorable Stelae

Two steles in the form of pylons on the sides of the alley with dates 1941 and 1944
The text on the memorial plaques: “Here was the front edge of the defense, where courageous defenders of the city of Leningrad fought the enemy to death. Time will pass, but an unprecedented feat of those who have defended the freedom and independence of our Motherland will be eternal in people's memory.
Established in 1977

Stela "The Front Edge of Defense"

The inscription on the stele: "The front edge of the defense of Leningrad 1941-1944. The names of the defenders of the city of Lenin are immortal in the memory of the people . ” To the left of the stone is a line of anti-tank nails.

Stele and anchor

  Object of cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation of federal significance. Reg. No. 781510213500006 ( EGROKN ). Object No. 7810783000 (Wikigid BD)

Monument crowning the Walk of Fame.
Established in 1968. Architect A. I. Exner, sculptors Yu. S. Zhmayev and A. N. Kologin.
The text on the stele: “Here was the front line of the defense of Leningrad in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945” .

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  Walk of Fame, general view

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  Birch Alley

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  Bridge over the river. Dudergofku. In the lattice used floral ornament

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  The second bridge over the river. Dudergofku

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  December 8, 2017 in Polezhaevsky Park on the Walk of Fame, a memorial sign (concrete anti-tank stand with a sign) was opened in honor of A.I. Spirin

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  View of the Walk of Fame and the bridge across the Duderhof Canal

• nearest metro station: Veteran Avenue
• From the side of st. Security officers and st. Partizan Herman:

1. Buses № 2,2А, 87, 111, 162, 165, 229
2. Trolleybus number 48
3. Minibuses number k-60, k-87, k-165, k-195, k-197, k-306, k-486b

• On Prospect Veterans:

1. Trolleybus № 37
2. Bus number 68, 130
3. Minibuses number k-20, k-68, k-130, k-184, k-227, k-297, k-329, k-343, k-635
4. Tram number 52 Stop "Avangardnaya street"

• According to the Avenue of the People's Militia:

1. Bus number 87, 130, 163, 165

• On Peterhof highway:

1. Bus number 200, 210
2. Minibuses number k-224, k-224k, k-300, k-420, k-424, k-424a
3. Tram number 60, 36, 41 Stop "Walk of Fame" transition is not equipped with a traffic light, but the authorities have promised to deliver it for several years

• /kartarf.ru
• flackelf.livejournal.com
• militia wikimapia.org
• The Book of Memory of the Great War