Презентация, доклад на английском языке Экскурсия на Мамаев Курган

Kurgan
Подготовили: Кулябина Арина, 11а класс
Дикарева Мария, 10а класс
Дубовцов Игорь, 11а класс

Руководители: Лемисева Лидия Михайловна,
Бабаян Юлия Юрьевна

the ground will freeze.
To the sacred height you`ll come again
And put red flowers on the monument
On the second of February you`ll come
To the meeting with heroic past».

Battle of Stalingrad, which lasted from July 17th, 1942 to February 2nd, 1943. It spread over on a huge area of about 100 thousand square km, with participation of more than 2 million people on its different stages. The battle, giant in scale and significant by its impact on the further course of the war, became a kind of prologue of the Great Victory. On Volga banks the fascist Germany and its satellite troops suffered the most powerfully attack which they could not withstand.

battles turned for Mamaev Kurgan and lasted almost 140 days and nights out of 200 days and nights here. The height 102.0 - so Mamayev Kurgan was called on the staff cards. It was vital lookout post and it was life or death to keep it protected. Soldiers swore an aoth to defend their Motherland.

of the Stalingrad Battle with the main monument called The Motherland Calls. There are some beds of honour and individual graves where more than 35 000 defenders of Stalingrad found their peace.

name of Mamayev Kurgan came from the time of the Golden Horde. There were guard patrols on the top of the hill and the head of that patrols was Mamay. The other ones are sure that the name of Kurgan comes from the Turkic word «mound, hill».

the monument-ensemble was solemnly opened. It is important to note that the ceremony was attended by General Secretary of the CPSU Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet Defense Minister Andrey Grechko, marshals Andrey Eremenko and Vasiliy Chuikov.

the Mamayev Kurgan. It`s Entry Square .The composition represents a huge high relief consisting of 11 figures. There is a group of people who are going to honour the memory of the fallen fighters with wreaths.

« And let the whole world see:
We remember and love the fallen ones.
And let the whole world know:
The enternal flame of Volgograd
Will never be fade away
Till at least one boy lives in this city»

soldiers standing shoulder to shoulder. Just like the real heroes fighting together for the Motherland. It`s length – 223 m. You memorize great soldiers of the 112nd, 10th, 13th guards, the 95th division, the tankers of the 6th guard, the 62nd army under the command of Basil Chuikov, who was the main military consultant during the construction of the memorial.

are granite stairs, which are 6 meters and lead to the Square «Standing to death». «Standing to death!»- is the main theme of the monument, which represents the collective image of the Russian soldier. The sculptural image of a soldier as if growing together with the land out of the great Russian river Volga personifying heroic defenders of the Volgian strength.

«We didnt count time with hours,
But with the amount of patrons and grenades.
We were screaming with the last grenade while fighting:
We'd better die than leave Stalingrad»

after bombing. They look like the certain episode of the Stalingrad Battle. Figures of soldiers, weapons and tanks are depicted there. The ruins of a huge building destroyed by long term shooting attacks, endless bombings, direct hits and bursts of fire. through the walls we can hear the gun's shot, military songs, fighter aircrafts' roar and the famous voice of the Soviet announcer Yuri Levitan telling the news from the battlefields every 30 minutes.

m) which represents the river Volga and water as a source of life in general. The pool is surrounded by six six-metre high statues of various soldiers that tells us about the heroic deeds of the Soviet people during Stalingrad Battle. Monumental Relief exhibiting main episodes of the great battle: the attack of Soviet troops at Stalingrad, blockading of the fascists and their destruction, the victorious movement of Russian forces to the west, the selfless labour of workers of the fronts.

Kurgan is a tribute to those who didn’t survive to see the Victory, to those who was killed on the battlefield. In the centre of the room or, as it’s also called, the pantheon of Fame, you can see a marble hand with a lit torch. It’s a hand of help of those who died for the sake of the bright future of the Motherland.

«We do not need paradise and heaven,
All we want to live and work.
To be glad to sunny rays
And to dawn of brighter days»

army, Vasily Chuikov, was buried. His grave is formalized with black granite slabs on which you can read: «Twice a Hero of the Soviet Union. Marshal of the Soviet Union. Chuikov Vasily Ivanovich. Undying glory!»He was buried on Mamayev Kurgan where thousands of soldiers who were beyond his control were buried.

opposite corner from the pantheon, to the left from the central axis of the ensemble, so to speak in a counterweight to the Hall of Fame. The sculpture group is made up with a figure of mother who is bending above her died son in an endless sorrow. It’s a collective figure of all soviet women who lost their closest people during the war: sons, husbands, fathers.

«The grass under the birch is untouchable

Nobody stood up from the ground

But how it is necessary for the soldier

To have someone to sorrow about him».

the basement of the main monument – The Motherland Calls! – starting from the Square of sorrow. There are reburials of 34 505 soldiers – the defenders of Stalingrad along the serpentine in the hill. There are also 37 granite gravestones of Heroes of the Soviet Union, participants of the Battle of Stalingrad

statue named "The Motherland Calls!”. She rushed forward fiercely with her full might and power, a punishing sward above her head ready to collapse the enemy
The height of the sculpture is 85 meters together with the sword and 52 meters without it.
Our Motherland is calling us, calling all to defend our native land, our homeland, our roots. Today she calls her children to do the great feats needed to enjoy a bright future!

«And she stands over the Volga
And rejoicing and mourning»

marks the famous «Height 102». One can read an inscription on the desk: «Here, on the Mamayev Hill, during the Great Patriotic War in the battle for Stalingrad the most bloody and persistent fights for the possession of the dominating height took place.» Here there is a brother`s grave of the soldiers who defended «height 102». About 1500 17people are buried here.

Mamayev Hill. It started with the only tree planted by a woman, a worker of the Tractor Plant in memory of her fallen husband who defended Stalingrad. A lot of people who lost their relatives during the Great Patriotic War followed her example. Nowadays there are 20 thousand trees in the park. Some trees are marked with the names of the fighters. At the entrance to the park there is a memorial stone with an inscription: “This memorial park was founded in autumn, 1965 to honour the memory of the soldiers – defenders of Stalingrad”.

Stalingrad” is the source of pride and patriotism for generations of Russian people visiting this place in order to cherish the memory of the victims who struggled for freedom and independence of their country.

Life was fighting with death here

Just here enemies found their death

And life has won in the battles in Stalingrad.