Tiraspol Transnistria The Memorial Glory Park Walking Tour

Memorial of Glory is a city memorial located on Suvorov Square of Tiraspol, the capital of Transnistria. It commemorates the Veterans and the dead of the Great Patriotic War, the Soviet-Afghan War, and the Transnistria War.
In the 1920s, a square was located on the site of the Memorial of Glory. The commissioner of the cavalry brigade Grigory Kotovsky was buried there during the Russian Civil War after the liberation of Tiraspol from the White Guard. The decision to create a memorial complex in Tiraspol was made in the early 1970s.[The construction of the memorial was very popular within the city. The construction of the memorial saw the participation of all organizations, enterprises and educational institutions of the city, with civil servants such as office workers assisting every day after work for 5 hours in the construction of the memorial. The construction process was at that time was headed by Hero of Socialist Labor I. D. Dyachenko. The authors of the project were sculptors Leonid Fishbein and Garry Faif. The complex was opened on Defender of the Fatherland Day in 1972. That same day, a solemn ceremony of the reburial of Red Army soldiers and officers at the complex was held (mostly natives of Transnistria and the Moldovan SSR). When the Memorial of Glory was opened, employees of the Tiraspol Museum of History and Local Lore wrote about 900 letters to the relatives and friends of the soldiers buried at the memorial.
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