Memorial of Glory (Tiraspol)

Memorial of Glory
Memorial of Glory
Type	Memorial
Location	Tiraspol, Transnistria
Coordinates	46°50′7″N 29°36′29″E / 46.83528°N 29.60806°E
Created	1972
Status	All year

Memorial of Glory (

Great Patriotic War, the Soviet-Afghan War, and the Transnistria War.^[1]

History

Early years

In the 1920s, a square was located on the site of the Memorial of Glory. The commissioner of the cavalry brigade

Moldovan SSR). When the Memorial of Glory was opened, employees of the Tiraspol Museum of History and Local Lore wrote about 900 letters to the relatives and friends of the soldiers buried at the memorial.^[5]

Later developments

The T-34-85 tank erected at the memorial was transported from Hungary in April 1945. During the Second World War, it was a combat vehicle of Lieutenant Boris Sergeev, who served with his father, Vasily Antonovich Sergeev, a prominent Colonel in the Red Army. Boris and his crew died under the Budapest Offensive (January 1945) and the machine was transported back to the territory of the Soviet Union, according to the request of his father. Under it is stored a capsule with soil brought from the city of

Soviet-Afghan War.^[6]

Reconstruction

In 2009-2010, the Glory Memorial was reconstructed. During the reconstruction, the Wall of Memory was erected, on which the names of all the

rubles (105,000 dollars) were allocated from the budget.^[7] The reconstructed Memorial of Glory was opened in early August 2010. On 17 August 2010, the Memorial of Glory was subjected to an act of vandalism. A fragment of a sculpture of a Soviet Army soldier in Afghanistan was stolen.^[8] In October 2011, the chapel of St. George the Victorious was built and consecrated.^[9]

Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

The

Nazis, students of the Tiraspol Secondary School No. 6 posted the honorary guard at the eternal flame. It is currently dedicated to the memory of the war dead from the first outbreak of fighting on 3 March 1992.^[10]