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Great Mass Grave, Mamayev Kurgan
tourist highlight Great Mass Grave, Mamayev Kurgan · Volgograd, Russia · 1943-01-01
The Great Mass Grave is part of the memorial complex To the Heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad on Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd.
The record
| Date | 1943-01-01 |
|---|---|
| Place | Great Mass Grave, Mamayev Kurgan, Volgograd, Russia |
| Coordinates | 48.74189, 44.53844 (landmark-level precision) |
| Scope | Local interest |
| Sources | ru.wikipedia · Wikidata Q18278097 |
| Added | 2026-08-20 · source: wikipedia-ru |
Coordinates are given at landmark level. A landmark-level coordinate points at the structure; a city-level one points at the settlement, not at a parcel.
Finding photographs
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- The reference article — its own illustrations, and its citations to archives.
- Image search filtered to reusable licences — useful for tracing which institution holds a picture.
- National and municipal archives of Russia, and the picture desks of newspapers published there at the time.
Check the licence before you reuse anything. A photograph being online, or being old, does not make it free; in most countries a 1960s press photograph is still in copyright.
Footage
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Time layers at this place
One place, several moments in time. This location has 9 recorded time layers between 1942 and 2018 — slide through them:
- 1942 — Stalingrad
- 1942 — T-34 Tank 'Chelyabinsk Collective Farmer' Monument
- 1943 — Great Mass Grave, Mamayev Kurgan this page
- 1959 — The Motherland Calls
- 1960 — Volgograd State Academy of Physical Culture
- 1962 — Central Stadium (Volgograd)
- 1967 — Mamayev Kurgan
- 2018 — Japan v Poland (2018 FIFA World Cup)
- 2018 — Volgograd Arena
Harvested from a regional source. This entry came out of ru.wikipedia rather than being written here, which is why it is short and why it is marked as needing a check. It is published as a lead for someone who knows the place: fill it in.
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Nearby in Europe
- Stalingrad (1942)Volgograd
- The Motherland Calls (1959)
- Mamayev Kurgan (1967)
- Volgograd State Academy of Physical Culture (1960)Volgograd
- Volgograd Arena (2018)Volgograd
- Central Stadium (Volgograd) (1962)Volgograd