New monument to the Soviet soldiers who liberated Narva from the Nazi invaders erected in Russia

05.09.2022, Ivangorod.

T-34 tank – a new monument to the Soviet soldiers who liberated Narva from the Nazi invaders in the summer of 1944 – is being installed in Ivangorod on a pedestal in front of the border crossing, the press service of the Government of the Leningrad Region wrote on the official Internet portal on September 5.

An exact replica of T-34 tank dismantled by the Estonian authorities in Narva will serve as a monument on the site in front of Ivan Bilibin Museum. The tank was brought to Ivangorod, and the fighting vehicle, which had participated in parades on Red Square, approached the site on its own.

“Until the Estonian authorities come to their senses and stop the thoughtless destruction of memorials, the memory will be preserved by the people of Leningrad,” the governor of the Leningrad region Alexander Drozdenko explained earlier the decision to install the monument.

On August 16, 2022 by the decision of the Government of Estonia the monument to the soldiers-liberators, erected in Narva on May 9, 1970 to the 25th anniversary of the Great Victory was destroyed. It was erected on the place where in July 1944 units of the Red Army under the command of General Ivan Feduninskiy crossed the Narova River.

The crossing of the river was a turning point in the Second World War in Estonia, it preceded the liberation of Narva and later the whole country from the Nazi invaders. In the Narva liberation operation more than 136 thousand people died.

Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency

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