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On June 30, 2020, a monument to a Soviet soldier was opened in the Rzhevsky memorial complex, which is dedicated to the memory of those killed in battles near the city of Rzhev in 1942-1943 of the Great Patriotic War. The monument is installed over an artificial hill, the height of which is 10 meters, the height of the soaring monument itself is 25 meters. At the foot of the sculpture are lines from the famous poem "I was killed near Rzhev" by the Russian poet A.T. Tvardovsky  - "We fell for the Motherland. But she is saved. "  The Battle of Rzhev was one of the fierce battles of the Great Patriotic War. The author of the monument is sculptor Andrey Korobtsov, architect Konstantin Fomin. The authors of the monument were inspired by the songs "Cranes", composer Yan Frenkel on the verses of Rasul Gamzatov and a photograph of a participant in the Battle of Rzhev. The lower part of the figure of the Unknown Soldier consists a flock of 35 flying cranes that strive to heaven. The look of the warrior holding the machine gun is directed into the distance. The memorial complex consists not only the figure of an unknown soldier; there is also an entrance group with sheets of Corten steel, on which the names of tens of thousands of fallen soldiers are carved. In addition, next to the monument is a multimedia museum complex, where you can see archival documents, photographs and video clips. This small museum is a branch of the Victory Museum on Poklonnaya Hill. The memorial was opened by the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin and the President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko. The heads of the state laid flowers at the pedestal of the monument and honored a minute of silence in memory of the soldiers who died in the battles near Rzhev in 1942-1943. This monument is dedicated to known and unknown soldiers of the red army, for whom the sky of Rzhev was the last thing they saw.