Icon "Eternal Glory to Heroes"

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Icon "Eternal Glory to Heroes": [photo] / photographer A. Melentiev. - Electronic data (1 file: 1 MB). - St. Petersburg: Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library, 2015. -
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In the photo: a souvenir badge "Eternal Glory to Heroes". Icon rectangular in the center of the relief image of the hand with the torch of the Eternal Flame. The flame of the torch forms a projection along the upper edge. On the bottom and right edge of the inscription: "Eternal glory to the heroes." White metal. Red enamel. Stamping. The size is 30x18 mm. Pin fastening. On the reverse side - the brand of the manufacturer: the factory "Lenemalier" (Leningrad), price 15 kopeks. Location: From a private collection. - On the souvenir badge "Eternal glory to heroes" is depicted a five-meter sculpture-hand holding a torch with the fire of Eternal Glory, located in the center of the hall of the Military glory of the historical-memorial complex "Mamaev Kurgan". Mamayev Kurgan is a hill on the right bank of the Volga River in the Central District of the city of Volgograd, where fierce battles took place during the Battle of Stalingrad from September 1942 to January 1943. In memory of the victims of the Great Patriotic War, in 1959-1967. under the guidance of the sculptor EV Vuchetich, a memorial ensemble "To the Heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad" was erected on the Mamayev Kurgan with the main monument "Motherland Calling!". The composition of the ensemble consists of: an introductory composition-the high relief "Memory of Generations", the alley of pyramidal poplars, the area that stood to death, the walls-ruins, the Heroes' Square, the monumental relief, the hall of military glory, the area of ​​the Tribulation, the main monument "Motherland Calls!", The Military Memorial a cemetery, a memorial arboretum at the foot of the Mamayev Kurgan. The length of the entire complex from the foot to the top of the hill is 1.5 km, the total area is 26 hectares. This is the largest monument in the world dedicated to the events of World War II .
I. Melentiev, Alexei Mikhailovich (1958-). II. Presidential Library. B. N. Yeltsin (St. Petersburg). III. "Lenemalier", the plant (Leningrad) .1. Monument ensemble to the heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad on Mamayev Hill (Volgograd, city) - Badges. 2. "The Battle of Stalingrad," the State Panorama Museum (Volgograd, the city) - Badges. 3. The people (the collection). 4. Memory of the Great Victory (collection). 5. Territory (collection). 6. Territory of Russia: Volgograd Region (collection). 7. Volgograd region: pages of history (collection). 8. Souvenir badges - the USSR.
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Source of electronic copy: PB
Place of origin: From private collection
Publisher Президентская библиотека имени Б. Н. Ельцина
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