Battle Site of the 19th Guards Rifle Division

A reinforced-concrete stele with a triangular top stands on an artificial earth mound. The memorial is dedicated to soldiers of the 19th Guards Rifle Division, which fought as part of the 2nd Shock Army of the Volkhov Front and was encircled in the Valley of Death during the winter-summer of 1942. The white bayonet-shaped stele bears a stylized red star framed by a St. George ribbon. At the foot of the mound, red letters on white concrete read: “NO ONE IS FORGOTTEN, NOTHING IS FORGOTTEN.” At the entrance are 2 white concrete blocks with memorial plaques. Their inscriptions read: “Remember those who defended life! They preserved the sun and joy for us. Those who fell for honor, freedom and the Motherland — forever count them among those walking beside us!” and “To the heroic soldiers of the 19th Guards Rifle (366th Rifle Division) Rudnyansko-Khinganskaya Order of Lenin, Red Banner, Order of Suvorov Division, who gave their lives for our Soviet Motherland (January - June 1942).”