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.
Pantheon of Memory to the Veterans
🗿 Monument
L. A. Bazanova Memorial Plaque
🗿 Monument
P. F. Zhigarev Memorial Plaque
🗿 Monument
G. K. Zhukov Monument
🗿 Monument
Liza Chaikina Museum Center
🏛️ Museum
“City of Military Glory” Memorial Stele
⛲ Square · 🗿 Monument
German Army Headquarters
📜 Historic site
War Burial Site
🗿 Monument · 📜 Historic site
German Kommandantur
📜 Historic site
House of the Underground Fighters
📜 Historic site
House of the Voroshilov Marksmen
📜 Historic site · 🏟️ Architectural landmark
Monument to the Submariners
🗿 Monument
Old Volga Bridge
🌉 Bridge · 📜 Historic site
Victory Obelisk
🗿 Monument
German Military Hospital
📜 Historic site · 🕵️ Urban legend
Cathedral Square
⛲ Square
Red Army House
📜 Historic site
Karl Marx Monument
🗿 Monument
City Garden
🌿 Public garden or park
Point 8
🗿 Monument • 📜 Historic site
During the German occupation, Kalinin had several German burial grounds, including ones opposite the Travel Palace and on Lenin Square. In keeping with Prussian military tradition, fallen soldiers and officers were buried in the city center.
In place of the Lenin monument on the square, the invaders put up a huge swastika, meant to intimidate the population. One night some young Komsomol members pulled the Nazi symbol down with ropes, and the next morning one of them paid for it with his life: he was hanged on the fence next to the pedestal. After the city's liberation all these graves were destroyed and the remains reburied. Today there is a mass grave of soldiers who died liberating Kalinin.
The first monument to V. I. Lenin was erected on the square in 1926. Its author was Sergei Dmitrievich Merkurov. In 1941 the Germans destroyed it by firing at it with an anti-tank gun. Local residents kept the fragments of the monument and, after the city was liberated on December 16, handed them over to the sculptor. Sadly, he died before he could finish restoring it. Nevertheless, in 1959 a new monument appeared on Lenin Square, created by Merkurov's students, the sculptors P. V. Barkov and V. P. Koenig. Fragments of Merkurov's first monument are still kept in the Lenin Museum at Gorki near Moscow.
Point on route “Wartime Pages of Tver”
Point 8
🗿 Monument • 📜 Historic site
During the German occupation, Kalinin had several German burial grounds, including ones opposite the Travel Palace and on Lenin Square. In keeping with Prussian military tradition, fallen soldiers and officers were buried in the city center.
In place of the Lenin monument on the square, the invaders put up a huge swastika, meant to intimidate the population. One night some young Komsomol members pulled the Nazi symbol down with ropes, and the next morning one of them paid for it with his life: he was hanged on the fence next to the pedestal. After the city's liberation all these graves were destroyed and the remains reburied. Today there is a mass grave of soldiers who died liberating Kalinin.
The first monument to V. I. Lenin was erected on the square in 1926. Its author was Sergei Dmitrievich Merkurov. In 1941 the Germans destroyed it by firing at it with an anti-tank gun. Local residents kept the fragments of the monument and, after the city was liberated on December 16, handed them over to the sculptor. Sadly, he died before he could finish restoring it. Nevertheless, in 1959 a new monument appeared on Lenin Square, created by Merkurov's students, the sculptors P. V. Barkov and V. P. Koenig. Fragments of Merkurov's first monument are still kept in the Lenin Museum at Gorki near Moscow.
19 points
6 km
3 hours
