Forgot to note last time that the pictures were taken from kotelnich.info.
Today I post my own photos.
This is a monument, which is placed at Kotelnich's railway station so that it's seen to all the passing-by trains. This monument is devoted to the people who died during their emergency evacuation in the period of 1941-1944. These people were rescued from different cities and towns to Urals, but many of them died on the way. About 3,000 of those people are buried in Kotelnich. The lines in bold (on the right side of the monument) say: "They were not soldiers but their lives were taken by the war".
*(For those who maybe still don't know, the period of the World War II from 1941 to 1945 in Russia and other states, which used to be parts of the Soviet Union, is known as Great Patriotic War. So I hope now everybody understands what the Victory means to all the Russian people, especially those who faught, stayed alive and still live.)
Lines on the left side is a long list of 2,768 names of those who were buried in Kotelnich and places of their origin.
That was a short history. But there's a couple curious things about the monument. At first, this is the first monument in Russia devoted to the evacuated people. Secondly, it's a new monument, opened on July 17, 2010. The date wasn't chosen occasionally: on July 17, 1941, the bodies of the dead were taken from the first train with evacuated citizents and buried in Kotelnich. And thirdly, the monument was built with people's donations.
Today I post my own photos.
*(For those who maybe still don't know, the period of the World War II from 1941 to 1945 in Russia and other states, which used to be parts of the Soviet Union, is known as Great Patriotic War. So I hope now everybody understands what the Victory means to all the Russian people, especially those who faught, stayed alive and still live.)
Lines on the left side is a long list of 2,768 names of those who were buried in Kotelnich and places of their origin.
That was a short history. But there's a couple curious things about the monument. At first, this is the first monument in Russia devoted to the evacuated people. Secondly, it's a new monument, opened on July 17, 2010. The date wasn't chosen occasionally: on July 17, 1941, the bodies of the dead were taken from the first train with evacuated citizents and buried in Kotelnich. And thirdly, the monument was built with people's donations.
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