Russian list of wonders

1. Russian list of wonders

Mamayev Kurgan and The
Motherland Calls

2. Mamayev Kurgan

a memorial complex
commemorating the Battle of Stalingrad.
After the war, the Soviet authorities
commissioned the enormous Mamayev Kurgan
memorial complex. Vasily Chuikov , who led
Soviet forces at Stalingrad, lies buried at
Mamayev Kurgan, the first Marshal of the
Soviet Union to be buried outside Moscow.
Soviet sniper Vasily Zaytsev was also reburied
there in 2006.

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4. The Motherland Calls

is the compositional center of the monument-ensemble "Heroes of
the Battle of Stalingrad" on Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd. It is one of the tallest
statues in the world and the tallest statue in Russia and Europe