Memorial Complex 'The field of military glory'.
Memorial
Belarus, Vitebsk region, village Gomel
Description
The Field of Military Glory is a historical and cultural complex, a memorial, opened in 2006 in memory of the battles during the Second World War.
The complex is located in the agricultural town of Gomel, 20 km from Polotsk towards Lepel, between the lakes Gomel, Suya and Shchaty. This place was once the southern border of the Stalin Line fortified area, where the soldiers held off the German offensive for 20 days in 1941.
Behind the parking lot is a hill with a wooden dugout built into its slope. After passing through the trenches, you can get to the pillbox, a typical three–aperture firing point. The massive armored door, machine gun niches and a central embrasure, destroyed by a direct shell hit, have been preserved in the structure. If you walk past the electrical substation towards the lake, you can see another pillbox on the hillside, which you can enter.
Website:
http://field.polotsk.museum.by/Categories
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With children
Paid
Historical
Exposition
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25.12.2024
Memorial Complex 'The field of military glory'.
Today, many people know about the heroic defenders of the Brest Fortress, about the defense of Grodno at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. But very few people have heard about the role that the defense of Polotsk played at the beginning of the war, and the importance that the Nazi command attached to the capture of this city. Few people know about the Polotsk fortified area, the defenders of which for twenty days did not allow the enemy to capture the city.
To open this page of the military history of Belarus, the historical and cultural complex "Field of Military Glory" was created. The complex is dedicated to the history of the Polotsk fortified area, an integral part of the fortification system known as the Stalin Line. The Polotsk UR is one of the few fortified areas that completed its combat mission during the initial period of the war. The length of the Polotsk URALS along the front was 60 km, the defensive structures were located in such a way as to cover the city, an important railway junction, from the most likely directions of the enemy's offensive. The village of Gomel is the southern border of the fortified area. A memorial complex was opened in 2006 on the basis of the pillboxes preserved here.
After visiting the Field of Military Glory complex, you will be able to visit a real pillbox, which left terrible traces of the last war, visit the dugout, walk through the trenches and try to imagine what this place looked like at the beginning of the war. You will learn about the people who, despite everything, held back the superior forces of the enemy, contributing to the approach of Victory.
The part of the exhibition "Fields of Military Glory" includes two pillboxes with inventory numbers 196 and 117, they are put in order. If desired, other pillboxes can be found in the immediate vicinity.: №№ 115, 116, 119, 197. And if you go around Lake Gomel and find yourself on its northwestern shore near the villages of Zazerye and Gornopolye, you can find 7 more pillboxes there.: №№ 108, 109, 111, 112, 113, 114, 120.
Pillbox No. 196 is a typical three-aperture firing point. In such a three-aperture pillbox, the staff consisted of three machine guns (Maxim systems) and two light machine guns. Each firing point was equipped with its own communication system (radio station, alarm system and telephone line), surveillance (periscope), power supply (switchboard, gas generator), ventilation and heating. The machine guns were cooled using a water tank, an Alveyer pump (vane pump) and a piping system.
Information plates show that in this area of defense, the soldiers of the 174th Infantry Division held back the enemy's offensive from June 27 to July 16, 1941.