Kaluga region, Tarussky district, village Kresty

Identified cultural heritage site “Mass Grave”

Description:
In 1941, a mass grave was created in the village of Kresty, when soldiers of the 19th separate cadet rifle brigade were buried there.
In 1950-1955, local residents reburied the remains of Soviet soldiers from single and small mass graves in Aksinyino, Vyatskoye, Kresty, Lopatino, and Tolmachev next to the existing mass grave.
In 2005, the burial site was reconstructed. Two burial mounds measuring 1.8 m x 1.8 m each were poured. A monument was erected between them. On a concrete foundation measuring 2.3m x 1.3m and 0.2m high, a brick plastered pedestal measuring 2.2m x 1.2m and 0.7m high is installed, and a concrete sculptural composition is erected on it: a woman with a scarf in her hand is kneeling at a vertically placed slab onto which lowered banners are falling. Her gaze is directed at the image of a wreath on the slab. The height of the sculptural composition is 2.3m, the length is 2.1m, and the width (thickness) is 0.8m. Six marble memorial slabs measuring 0.3m x 0.3m, 0.7m x 0.2m, and 0.6m x 0.3m are attached to the pedestal. On four of them are carved the names of those buried known at that time, on the fifth board – “Eternal glory to the heroes”, on the sixth – “The soldiers who died in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 are buried here”. In front of the monument there is a flower garden. The total area of the burial is 6.5 square meters, surrounded by a metal fence measuring 8.3 m x 4 m, 1.1 m high. Trees grow around the burial.
In total, the grave contains the ashes of 130 soldiers.

Completed works:
– repair works on improvement of the burial place and repair of the monument. (2021)