Monument to warrior drivers
Description:
The monument to soldiers-drivers is dedicated to the feat of motorists during the Great Patriotic War. Its authors are sculptor P.F. Movchun and architect A.A. Gaiduchenya, the monument was installed in 1968 in the village of Osinovaya Gorka, five kilometers from Bryansk.
It was here that an automobile battalion was formed, which passed the battle route to Berlin. On this road returned to Bryansk Soviet soldiers-liberators. At the foot of the thirty-meter pylon there is a figure of a driver-soldier on the foot of a reared car. His right hand is on the steering wheel, and his stark eyes are on the road.
In 1979, the monument was modernized and dressed in granite, on the opposite side of the road installed two trucks of the war years. Next to the monument, a memorial dugout was recreated, in which in 1941 the headquarters of the Bryansk Front was located under the command of Marshal A.I. Yeremenko.
On holidays, there are many people who came to pay tribute to the memory of front-line drivers. Passing cars honor the dead with a beep.