Հեռավոր սահմանագիծ, War memorial in Lopukhinka, Russia.
The Dalniy Rubezh memorial is a rectangular granite stone set on the bank of the Lopukhinka River, 6 km north of the village of Lopukhinka, at the site of the wartime-destroyed village of Terentyevo. Carved into the stone is the inscription: "Here in 1941 Baltic sailors stopped the fascist troops."
The memorial was built in 1966 as part of the Green Belt of Glory initiative. It commemorates military events and the losses that occurred in the Leningrad Region during the war.
The memorial belongs to the Green Belt of Glory, a ring of monuments around St Petersburg begun in the 1960s. Its granite block carries the inscription: "Here in 1941 Baltic sailors stopped the fascist troops." Wreaths were laid here on 25 January 2009 for the 65th anniversary of the lifting of the siege of Leningrad.
The memorial stands on the bank of the Lopukhinka River, 6 km north of the village of Lopukhinka, near the site of the destroyed village of Terentyevo. It is reached by a road through the Leningrad Region; some sources mistakenly place it near the former Sheremetyevo or Ust-Ruditsa villages. The condition of the monument was assessed as acceptable in 2006.
The memorial stands by the Lopukhinka River, formerly called Ruditsa, which is why some sources place it using the old river name. Other sources wrongly locate it near the vanished village of Sheremetyevo, which apparently never existed there, or at Ust-Ruditsa. The site is linked to the destroyed wartime village of Terentyevo, 6 km north of Lopukhinka.
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