Monument to the 6th Battery of the Guards in Murmansk. Unveiled in 1959. Dmitry Vodolazhsky, architect. The monument is topped with a ZIS-3 gun of the 1942 make. The battery brought down the first Luftwaffe plane in the Russian polar region on June 22, 1941, the day Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union. The battery troops were reburied at the foot of the monument in 1991.
- Categories: Lifestyle & Leisure, Arts, Culture & Entertainment
- Location: Murmansk, Russia
- Event date: 01.07.1979
- Date published: 29.07.2010
- Author: Yu. Bykovskiy
- Source: Sputnik
- Credit: Sputnik
- Original: 79-13996, 6x6 film
- Media: JPEG, 3681x3543px, 2.3Mb