Wartime Pages of Tver

19 points6 km3 hours

Walk through the places in Tver that preserve the tragic history of the Great Patriotic War. At that time the city was called Kalinin. You'll learn what Kalinin was like in the days of the occupation, what heroic deeds local people performed, and how the city was liberated.

Route author

Tver Tourist Information Center

Things to do

📜 Learn the city's history
🏛️🕰️ Compare the eras

Route points (19)

House of the Underground Fighters in Tver

Point on route “Wartime Pages of Tver”

Point 10

House of the Underground Fighters

📜 Historic site

Description

Behind the few lines of text on the memorial plaque at 4 Stepan Razin Embankment lie a true wartime tragedy and a story of self-sacrifice.

Historical Background

On the night of November 7, 1941, a Soviet flag appeared on the roof of the House of Officers in occupied Kalinin. It was an unprecedented act in a city where people were shot without trial for the slightest violation of the curfew. The boys from the tenth grade of School No. 16 paid for this heroic deed with their lives. Their bodies were found only after the city's liberation, in January 1942, in a shed not far from the kommandantur. The young scouts were buried solemnly, with military honors, in a mass grave at the Smolensk Cemetery in Tver.