Description of the attraction
The Martyshkinsky memorial, or the Martyshkino memorial, is a memorial complex in the village of Martyshkino. Martyshkino (from Swedish - "Tyris", Finnish - "Tyrö": Tyrø) is a historical district, part of the city of Lomonosov east of the railway crossing at the junction of Zhora Antonenko Street and Morskaya Street.
The Martyshkino memorial is located on both sides of the St. Petersburg - Lomonosov highway. In the southern region, you can see a monument-sculpture to the Victorious Warrior made of bronze: a soldier dressed in a raincoat is shown in a throw on the embrasure of a pillbox. The memorial was opened in 1975.
The Martyshkinsky memorial was formed on the site of the burials of the defenders of the Oranienbaum bridgehead, which were carried out during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.
In 1946, the burial was first landscaped and fenced with a meter-long fence. Three years later, in 1949, a concrete sculpture of a sailor without a headdress was erected on the south side. Height - 3 meters. In early August 1974, the graves from the Powerful and Maly islands were transferred to a mass grave in front of the standing sculpture. In the same year, a symbolic grave of the Hero of the Soviet Union Ivan Andreevich Nemkov was erected in the southern area of the memorial. There is also a grave for another Hero of the USSR - Georgy Dmitrievich Kostylev.
Work on a new redevelopment of the burial was carried out in 1975, when the northern part was separated from the highway by anchor chains. It is this year that is considered to be the official year of the opening of the Martyshkino memorial.
In 1983, plaques with the names of the soldiers were hung in the southern part of the memorial. In the same year, in the fall, the sailor's sculpture was dismantled. Instead, in the southern side of the memorial, a monument "Feat" was erected, which is a sculpture of the Victorious Warrior. The new memorial was designed by the architect Alexander Ivanovich Alymov, and the sculptor was Eduard Makarovich Agayan.
Since 1983, the Martyshkino memorial has become a regular venue for celebrations and holidays on the days of lifting the blockade and on May 9 - Victory Day.
In the south-western side of the memorial there are burials of Major General Timchenko Vyacheslav Andreevich, Lieutenant General Anatoly Iosifovich Andreev, Major General Valentin Nikolayevich Korobkov, Lieutenant General Vladimir Shcherbakov, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Oranienbaum City Council of People's Deputies of Karaganda during the Second World War Vasilievich.
