Ludnikov Island презентация

Volgograd is a memorial "lyudnikov's Island". This attraction though is on the banks of the river, but an island named only symbolic. Due to the remoteness from the city centre and from its main tourist spots it is not very popular, neither the city, nor local residents, although it is one of the main city monuments, telling about the bloody events of the great Patriotic war.

BARRICADES OF THE CITY OF VOLGOGRAD. NAMED AFTER COLONEL IVAN ILYICH LYUDNIKOV, COMMANDER OF THE 138TH RIFLE DIVISION DEFENDING THE VILLAGE OF LOWER BARRICADES IN THE BATTLE OF STALINGRAD.

of the German troops concentrated 2 armored and 3 infantry divisions, and air support of the 4th air fleet of the Luftwaffe.

on the offensive. The main attack, the German command hoped to put aside the Volgograd tractor plant, the plant "Barricades", which sent three German infantry and 2 armored divisions. 15.10.1942 German troops reached the Volga just North of the plant "Barricades". After another day, 16.10.1942, Stalingrad ferried 138 division (from the 64 army) Colonel Ivan lyudnikov, in whose honor and will be named the memorial "lyudnikov's island". 138 division took up defensive positions in the village of Volgograd.

Wehrmacht was able to seize the southern part of the plant "Barricades", as well as to break through to the Volga river on the plot with a width of just 500 metres. 138 the division for 40 days fought with units of the three divisions of the Wehrmacht and held the pad 700х400 meters (future Ludnikov Island in Volgograd), being cut off from the main forces of the 62nd army under Vasily Chuikov. 21 Dec 1942 138 division went on the offensive and lifted the blockade of the South.

the plant "Barricades" where the battle was the command post of the division, have established a memorial Board. That is the ruins of the house are a Central element of the memorial "lyudnikov's Island"

a stele with plaque in bronze, which briefly told about the heroic defense of this territory Volgograd, named after Ludnikov island, in November – December 1942.

is a monument to "Clip" the communicators 138 rifle division. The monument – Stela with a bronze plate text which tells of the heroism of four communications division. Within six weeks, the communicators 138 division: Kuzminski, Vetoshkin, Kolosovsky and kharazia said – kept coherent paragraph and do not miss the enemy. The Callsign of the operators – "the Roller", hence the name of the monument.

Island" in the mass graves of Volgograd. Two of them were built by standard design and placed in the Lower square of the village. In one of the graves buried up to 1,000 died, information about the number of soldiers buried here – no. Third mass grave is located on the banks of the Volga. In it are buried the communications division. Monument at the grave was erected in 1952, a draft model. In 1975, on the surface of the grave was lined with concrete slabs and installed a new fence, all work on the arrangement of the Ludnikov island was conducted by the plant "Barricades".

Stalingrad, 31.01.2008 on Ludnikov island at the suggestion of the Cossack communities of Volgograd has established and sanctified the 10-meter Orthodox cross.

for aggressors: first, he supplied the Soviet army with weapons, and secondly, with his territories on the cliff of the Volga, it was possible to get to the other side. That is why in this place of fierce fighting, the Germans still conquered part of the coast. However, a military compound under the command of Ivan Ludnikov later managed to eliminate the blockade of the enormous number of human lives.
The Nazis in the whole 40 days was surrounded by fighters of the division lyudnikov on a small area of a width and a length less than a kilometer: so later the place was called "the island".