History of Saint-Petersburg: The exhibition “Green belt of Glory” in the Peter and Paul Fortress

The exhibition "Green Belt of Glory" is held from May 7 to 19 July 2015 in the Peter and Paul Fortress (St. Petersburg).

The grandiose memorial complex "Green Belt of Glory" is built on a line length of over 200 km, on which in September 1941 took place the Leningrad defense line.

May 9, 1965 thousands of Leningrad residents went to the construction site of "Green Belt of Glory". Each region was assigned to the work area. Construction of the first phase of the memorial was completed by May 9, 1967. The second phase is completed to the 30th anniversary of the Victory.

The "Green Belt of Glory" included 80 monuments, obelisks and other memorial structures, united in 35 memorial complexes such as "Kirov shaft", "Pulkovo abroad", "Undefeated", "Assault", "attack", "Garden of Peace", "The January Thunder", "Far abroad" and others. As the independent elements the "Green Belt of Glory" includes fraternal military cemeteries and burial places and buildings marked with plaques. Parks, memorial alleys, squares joined dispersed over long distances in a single artistic memorials body.

Today, after 50 years from the beginning of the creation of complex, many monuments of "Green Belt of Glory" are in poor condition and in need of renovation. One of the objectives of the exhibition is to draw attention to the issue of the conservation.

The exhibition features about 50 architectural projects of memorial complexes and separate monuments of the "Green Belt of Glory."

The entry was the Monument to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad in Victory Square is the symbolic center of the "Green Belt of Glory".

The museum stores made of metal sculptural models of monuments "Road of Life" and "Broken Ring (sculptor K. M. Simun), as well as models of monuments erected to the" Road of Life "," Katyusha "," Flower of Life ", a monument to the builders "Road of Life" and one of the 46 memorial pillars, marking, where the "Road of Life" from Leningrad to the shore of Lake Ladoga. They can also be seen by the museum visitors.

The exhibition is complemented with photographs, documents and personal belongings, awards and medals of the Soviet soldiers who defended Leningrad. They are reminiscent of the heroic defense of the city of 1941-1944, about courage and fortitude of the Soviet soldiers, of fierce battles on the outskirts of Leningrad, which immortalized the memory of "Green Belt of Glory".