🚶 Izhora Embankment and the Izhora Battalion Monument

Колпино, бульвар Свободы

The Izhora bank with a pond by the dam and a memorial to the 72nd Izhora Battalion, which held the front here during the Siege.

Svobody Boulevard is the plant's main dam, built in 1805 on the instructions of Charles Gascoigne; until 1924 it was called "Plity".
The very first flood, in 1807, broke through the newly built main dam.
From 1903 to 1964 the plant's hydroelectric station worked at the main dam.
The monument to the soldiers of the Izhora Battalion opened in 1959: a wall of Pudost stone with polished red granite, architect M. A. Shepilevsky.
The battalion was assembled from plant workers and Kolpino residents in late August 1941 and fought its first battle on 4 September.
The battalion's best sniper, Nikolai Zaleysky, was credited with 115 enemy kills.

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