Memorial in Ilovlinsky district of Volgograd region was taken under state protection
The memory of the defenders of Stalingrad received a new, higher level of state protection. In the farm Zheltukhin-Shiryaevsky Ilovlinsky district officially approved the subject of protection of the mass grave of Soviet soldiers
This legal status ensures that every detail of the memorial and the soldier's eternal resting place itself are now under strict control of the law.
The names of all 68 soldiers buried here are known. The central element of the memorial is a concrete quadrangular obelisk, crowned with a red star, was installed in 1975 with the dedication “Eternal memory of the heroes who fell in the battles for the freedom and independence of our Motherland”. Decades later, in 2012, memorial plates with carved names of the fallen appeared nearby.
According to the order of the regional committee for the protection of cultural heritage sites, not only the monument itself on the pedestal, but also the exact location of the burial, as well as the remains of soldiers with all accompanying material items, now fall under state protection.
Such decisions are part of the large-scale systematic work carried out by the Volgograd Regional Directorate for the preservation of historical and cultural heritage.
