In the small hours of 6 January 1942, the 18th Heavy Howitzer Regiment, which was in the reserve of the Main Command, took up a fighting position near Selishchensky on the Volkhov River to provide artillery support to the 2nd Shock Army.
The memorial complex made of reinforced concrete stands 600 metres south of Myasnoi Bor and looks like an emplacement with firing slits in the north-western and southern walls.
A T-34 tank was installed in Podberezye to mark the beginning of the Leningrad-Novgorod strategic offensive operation.
Obelisk to the servicemen of the 448th Artillery Regiment who fought valiantly near Novgorod, performing their military duty honourably in all battles.
The monument was unveiled in 1979 in the Khutyn Monastery. A large reinforced concrete rifle stands on a hill, with slabs with the figure “229” on the front side of the stele. On the left is a plaque commemorating Hero of the Soviet Union Alexander Nazarov.
The middle of the 20th century was one of the most tragic periods in Russian history, the Great Patriotic War, which claimed over 20 million lives in the Soviet Union and ended on 9 May in the victory of the Soviet Army and people over Nazi Germany.
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