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      The 1941 Defense Line on Prospekt Stachek

      ⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 2.5 km🍽 0📍 4 stops
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      The memorial to the heroes of Narvskaya Zastava, the spot where the highway was blocked with tram cars, a KV-85 tank with a pillbox, and a Fordson-Putilovets tractor.

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        🏛 “Heroes of the Narva Gate” Monument
        пр. Стачек у Кронштадтской пл.
        A memorial on Prospekt Stachek by Kronshtadtskaya Square — the start of a walk along the line where the front was stopped in autumn 1941.
        The memorial by Kronshtadtskaya Square on Prospekt Stachek — the former Peterhof Highway. From here we head toward the center along the 1941 defense line.
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        • The inscription reads: “To the heroes of the Narva Gate, who suffered through victory in battle and stepped with it into immortality”.
        • Prospekt Stachek here is the former Peterhof Highway, along which the defence line ran in 1941.
        • The line in the Kirovsky district where the offensive was stopped in September 1941 is marked by the memorials of the “Kirov Rampart” as part of the “Green Belt of Glory”.
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        🏛 “Siege Tram” Memorial
        пр. Стачек, у Ленинградского сквера
        A marker on the spot where in September 1941 the Peterhof Highway was blocked with tram cars against German tanks.
        A kilometer along Stachek. The marker stands where the highway was blocked with tram cars in September 1941.
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        “Siege Tram” Memorial
        © Artyom Svetlov · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The inscription reads: “Here in September 1941 the Peterhof Highway was blocked with tram cars to defend Leningrad from fascist tanks”.
        • From here it is about 250 m to the KV-85 tank in Leningradsky Square — a pillbox survives there too.
        • The memorials of this line are united in the “Kirov Rampart” complex: it was built by the working people of the Kirovsky district.
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        🏛 Victor Tank at Kirovsky Val
        пр. Стачек, у д. 106
        A KV-85 heavy tank on a pedestal on the 1941–44 defence line, where the front lay 4 km from the Kirov Plant.
        In the neighboring Leningradsky Garden — a KV-85 tank, and behind it a surviving pillbox.
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        Victor Tank at Kirovsky Val
        © Florstein · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The pedestal carries a KV-85 heavy tank built at the Kirov Plant in Chelyabinsk — one of only two survivors.
        • The monument was erected in 1951 on the proposal of the designer Zhozef Kotin and to a design by the architect V. A. Kamensky.
        • Behind the tank survives a pillbox where tank-destroyer units of the 42nd Army held the line.
        • In 1945 a Triumphal Arch stood nearby: on 8 July troops returning from the front were welcomed here.
        • Since 2020 the square with the tank has been called Leningradsky.
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        🏛 Fordson-Putilovets Tractor Monument
        ул. Червонного Казачества
        A metal sculpture of the first mass-produced Soviet tractor, which the Putilov workers nicknamed “Fyodor Petrovich”.
        Turn onto Chervonnogo Kazachestva Street and you'll find the tractor from which Soviet tractor-building began at the Putilov Works.
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        • The tractor was produced at the Krasny Putilovets plant in 1924–1932 under a Ford licence.
        • The model was the American Fordson-F.
        • In everyday speech the “Fordson-Putilovets” was called “Fyodor Petrovich” — from the letters F.P.
        • The kerosene engine produced only 20 horsepower, and without fenders over the wheels the tractor splashed the driver with mud.

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