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 memorial stands beside the Saint Petersburg–Moscow highway in the Chudovsky District, near the village of Lubino Pole, so it is reached by car or bus. There is no entrance building or gate; the stone slabs and the mourning figure stand in the open and can be viewed at any time. The graves of soldiers from Lubino Pole, Tregubovo, Spasskaya Polist and Olkhovka lie on the site.
The memorial was planned to open for the 50th anniversary of Victory Day, but a lack of funding delayed it by five years, to 8 May 2000. The burial ground also holds remains from the nearby villages of Tregubovo, Spasskaya Polist and Olkhovka, as well as soldiers of the 382nd Rifle Division, and this is noted on the memorial itself.
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