Lubino Pole memorial, War memorial in Mostki, Russia.
Lubino Pole memorial is a war memorial in Mostki, in the Chudovsky District of Russia, centered on a stone sculpture of a mourning figure. Stone slabs arranged around it carry the engraved names of soldiers who died during the fighting in this region.
The memorial honors Soviet soldiers who died on the Volkhov Front between 1941 and 1944, during some of the hardest fighting on the Eastern Front. It was opened in 2000, nearly six decades after the battles it commemorates.
The names carved into the stone slabs come from the surrounding villages, whose fallen soldiers are buried at this site. For several communities in the area, this is the shared place where local memory of the war is kept alive.
The site sits directly along the main highway between Saint Petersburg and Moscow, so it is easy to reach by car or bus. There is no formal entrance structure, and visitors can walk freely among the sculpture and engraved slabs at any time.
Military identification medals recovered at the site allowed researchers to match many of the names on the slabs to the soldiers actually buried there. This makes the memorial one of the few where the link between the engraved names and the graves beneath them has been directly verified.
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