Icon "Monument" Warrior-liberator "

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Monument "Warrior-liberator" icon: [photo] / photographer A. Melentiev - Electronic data (1 file: 1 MB) - St. Petersburg: Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library, 2015. -
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On the photo: souvenir badge "Monument" Liberator of War ". The icon in the form of a bas-relief of the monument "Warrior-Liberator", installed in the Berlin Treptow Park: the figure of a Soviet soldier standing on the wreckage of a swastika, in one hand the soldier holds the lowered sword, and another supports the girl he rescued. White metal. Stamping. The size is 22x13 mm. Pin fastening. Without stigma. Location: From a private collection. - On the souvenir badge there is a monument "Warrior-Liberator", which is the central part of the memorial to Soviet soldiers, located in Berlin's Treptow Park. In the memorial, about 7,000 Soviet soldiers were buried, out of a total of 75,000 fallen during the storming of Berlin. The names of about 1,000 of them are known. Sculptor EV Vuchetich, architect Ya.B. Belopolsky, artist A.V. Gorpenko, engineer SS Valerius. It was opened on May 8, 1949. The height of the monument is 12 meters, weight - 70 tons. The Warrior-Liberator monument is a symbol of the victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War, and the liberation of the peoples of Europe from fascism .
I. Melentiev, Alexei Mikhailovich (1958-). II. Presidential Library. B. N. Yeltsin (St. Petersburg) .1. Vuchetich, Evgeniy Viktorovich (1908 - 1974). "Warrior-liberator", a monument - Badges. 2. The people (the collection). 3. Memory of the Great Victory (collection). 4. Territory (collection). 5. 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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