Tank KV-1
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16.03.2013 12:08
Original tank participating in fights for clearing by Ropshi. On a high pedestal tank KV-1 with board number № 9854 Heroes of Soviet Union of Anatoly Piljutkina — a monument to the soldiers who have released Ropshu on January, 19th 1944 year. It is established in memory of a meeting of the basic forces 2 shock armies and 42 armies in January 1944 year during Krasnoselsko-Ropshinsky offensive operation. The inscription on a pedestal says:«In this area on January, 19th, 1944 the tankmen of the Leningrad front coming from area of Oranienbaum and from area of Pulkovo, have closed a steel ring round the fascist murderers firing from artillery a city of Lenin».
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