“Nevsky threshold” is a memorial in the city of Otradnoye in the Leningrad Region at the site of fierce battles for breaking the blockade of Leningrad .
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| Status |  An object of cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation of federal significance. Reg. No. 471520280300556 ( EGROKN ). (Wikigid database) |
History
In August 1942, the Nazi command planned to launch an assault on Leningrad .
On August 19, fighters of the 268th Infantry Division, Colonel S.I. Donskov, after powerful artillery preparation and bombing attacks attacked enemy positions on the eastern bank of the Tosny River. At the same time, the landing party seized the railway and highway bridges and took up a small bridgehead on the shore, called the Ivanovsky Piglet .
Memorial Description
In 1944, a modest obelisk to his fellow soldiers was installed on the bank of the Tosny River according to the project of the participant of the battles V. A. Petrov. In the 1960s, when Leningraders created the Green Belt of Glory , the workers of the Dzerzhinsky District erected a monument dedicated to the defenders of the Ivanovo Piglet, “Nevsky Threshold”.
On the top of a gentle hill, a platform paved with concrete slabs is planned. On it is a 23-meter horizontal stele , which lies on three transversely placed blocks. The memorial inscription on the stele lists the units and formations that fought at this line in 1941-1944. The height of each block is 1.8 meters. They are installed with a shift of one in relation to the other and have different lengths. Near the monument dug- ins were dug, on one of them the inscription: “Traveler, pass to Leningrad - the enemy did not pass . ” The architects of the monument are V. A. Petrov, F. K. Romanovsky, sculptor A. G. Dem.
A chapel was built near the monument. The author of the project is architect S. G. Strukov. The chapel is assigned to the St. John's Church . An obelisk is installed on the mass grave near the mouth of Tosna.
Literature
- Gusarov A. Yu. Monuments of military glory of St. Petersburg. - SPb. : Parity, 2010 .-- 400 p. - ISBN 978-5-93437-363-5 .