Inauguration of the Memorial on May 9, 1975 at the day of the 30th anniversary of Victory over fascism.On an area of 16 hectares is located kind of open-air museum with an exhibition of military equipment and armaments major genera and species of the armed forces during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.
in 1983was able to find in Sovetskaya Gavan sister of the guns, which destroyed the Nazis during the harsh days of the defense of our city and across the Soviet Union on 4 wagons to bring in parts of Odessa and install parts of a 250- ton crane.
From the front of the 2nd gun courtyard is a memorial plate on the left - a complete list of formations and units that took part in the heroic defense of Odessa, on the right - the list of formations and units (27) for the courage and heroism displayed during the liberation Odessa in April 1944, awarded the title of Odessa .
In the 45 th anniversary of liberation from Nazi invaders in Odessa in the spring of 1989 veterans, WWII , soldiers- internationalists , workers of enterprises and high school students in Odessa planted parallel to the position of the battery 411 , as the succession of generations 168 Chestnut - in memory of Odessa, died in Afghanistan , calling it Mall memory of the soldiers -internationalists.
Each year, Memorial visits more than 200 thousand people. Over the years the Memorial of heroic defensive of Odessa attended by more than 7 million people from more than 70 countries.
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