Victory Memorial Park in Kazan

Victory Memorial Park in Kazan is located in Novo-Savinovskiy district at the intersection of Bondarenko Street and Khusayin Yamashev Avenue. It covers an area of about fifty hectares. The park was founded in the early 1970s, when fifteen hundred trees and shrubs were planted on an unsuitable for construction marshy site. The exact number - 1418 is equal to the number of days and nights of the Great Patriotic War.

For a long time it was just a park, but in 1995, to the 50th anniversary of the Victory in the Great, the construction of the memorial complex was started. The monument to the Heroes of the Great Patriotic War is a pantheon located around the eternal fire. There are marble tablets with the names of all Heroes of the Soviet Union, Heroes of Socialist Labor and full knights of the Order of Glory, who were born on the territory of the Republic of Tatarstan. At the eternal fire, young Kazan citizens from patriotic organizations alternately, carrying a voluntary watch of memory.