The Volkhov Front was established on 17 December 1941 in accordance with the 11 December 1941 order of the Headquarters of the Supreme High Command.
Over 37,000 Soviet servicemen are buried in common graves there. But very few names have been established and listed on the memorial.
The memorial honours the servicemen of the 19th Guards Rifle Division of the 2nd Shock Army, Volkhov Front, which was encircled in the Valley of Death from winter to summer 1942.
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.
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