TelinFyodor

I have passed the village of Peremilovo many times, on the way to Dmitrov. There is a large monument there, dedicated to the soldiers who fell in the Battle of Moscow.  It can be very easily seen from the main road, but this is the first time I visited the monument itself. This area was the site of the most decisive episode in the Battle of Moscow (1941). It is one of the frontiers where the German Army advance was halted, and it was the most eastern point of their progress on the fronts to the north of Moscow.     In order to appreciate the strategic importance of the site, you should definitely visit it yourself.  You will see that its steep slopes stretch for 2 kilometers along the Volga--Moscow canal, rising more than 50 meters above it, and virtually hanging over the Yahroma bridge. Due to the slopes’ length and irregularity in height, it gives the impression of not one, but several, slopes, so the place is often referred to as "Peremilovskiye Heights." Th...

    Lublino Cemetery is a cemetery in the southeastern administrative district of Moscow. It was founded in 1635. The area of the cemetery is 19 hectares. Old Lublino Cemetery, as shown on a topographic map of Moscow and the surrounding area in 1931, was demolished. Now there are blocks of flats on that place inside the boundaries of   Krasnodonskaya, Sportivnaya and Taganrog Streets.       During 1945-1949, about 600 prisoners of war who fought against the Soviet Union during the great Patriotic War were buried at the Lublino cemetery.     According to official statistics of the Office for Prisoners of War and Interned of the Ministry of internal Affairs of the USSR of October 12, 1959, 2,389,560 German soldiers were taken prisoner, and 356,678 of them died in captivity. Mortality in the first years of the war was especially high. Even Soviet citizens starved, not to speak about enemy POWs.  Due to the sever...