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: A striking 25-meter-high bronze statue of a soldier in a Red Army uniform.

The coordinates point to the Rzhev Memorial to the Soviet Soldier in the Tver Oblast, Russia. 56.254072, 34.346546.jpg

: The bottom of the soldier's figure appears to dissolve into a flock of flying cranes , a powerful symbol of fallen warriors in Russian culture derived from the poem Zhuravli . : A striking 25-meter-high bronze statue of a

: The approach to the statue is flanked by broken steel walls laser-cut with the names of over 17,000 soldiers killed in the battles. : The approach to the statue is flanked

: The complex is built on an artificial 10-meter mound at the site of the fierce Rzhev–Vyazma offensive. It was funded through public donations and support from the Union States of Russia and Belarus.

Completed in 2020, this monument is dedicated to the hundreds of thousands of Red Army soldiers who fell during the (1942–1943), a series of some of the bloodiest clashes of World War II, often referred to as the "Rzhev Meat Grinder". Key Features of the Memorial